Despite having a very high rate of rape and gender-based violence, the brutal attack has shocked South Africa, which begins celebrating Women's Month from Monday.
Heat waves, wildfires raging in Portugal, Spain and France are forecast to worsen and spread to other parts of Europe
President Sergio Mattarella tells Mario Draghi to go back to Parliament, try to garner support
Study shows war drove up costs of food, fuel
Yamashita is one of three women picked by FIFA to be referees; Stéphanie Frappart of France and Salima Mukansanga of Rwanda are the other women who were selected
US leader to add naval destroyers in Spain, deploy troops elsewhere
In the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, home to 300 million, crippling lung and heart disease caused by so-called PM2.5 pollution reduces life expectancy by eight years, and in the capital city of New Delhi by a decade
Zelenskyy: 'The situation is difficult'
Felicien Kabuga, an alleged financier of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, is fit to stand trial, a U.N. tribunal ruled Monday, saying it must begin "as soon as possible" in The Hague.
Clashes in Sudan's Darfur between Arab and non-Arab groups have killed more than 100 people, adding to a toll of hundreds in the region over recent months.
Saudi Arabia on Sunday pledged $10 million to help prevent an ageing Yemeni oil tanker from unleashing a potentially catastrophic spill in the Red Sea bordering its waters.
At least six people were killed in northern Burkina Faso in several attacks attributed to jihadists, local and military sources told AFP on Sunday.
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