Mexico’s supreme court has decriminalised abortion nationwide. It ruled that criminal penalties for terminating pregnancies were unconstitutional. The judgement comes two years after the court ruled in favour of a challenge to the existing law in the northern state of Coahuila. Mexico’s states and the federal government had since been slow to repeal penal codes. […]

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The G20 summit has started this week in Delhi, India. The G20 countries represent 85% of the world’s ecoomy and two-thirds of its population, so it should be pretty influential, right? But the truth is that with the world so divided over issues like the war in Ukraine, making economic agreements is not so easy, […]

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In spite of efforts to discourage migrants from making the perilous Darien crossing from South America to Panama on foot, huge numbers are making the trip anyway, even if they are sick, injured, pregnant, or traveling with small children. The horrors of crossing through the Darién Gap are well known. People face robberies, assaults, and […]

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Enrique Tarrio the former leader of the The Proud Boys, a mysterious right-wing men-only grouping, has been jailed for 22 years for orchestrating the attack on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. It is the longest sentence handed down so far over the attack, which happened on Capitol Hill as lawmakers were certifying President […]

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Tropical Storm Lee is expected to rapidly intensify into an “extremely dangerous” hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean by this weekend, the National Hurricane Center said Wednesday morning, as the season approaches its September peak, when the ocean waters are at their warmest. Lee could become a hurricane Wednesday then a major Category 3 storm or […]

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Under a new law that came into force yesterday, all housing rentals under 30-days must register with the City of New York, and will not be allowed unless the landlords themselves live on the property and share their home, like a traditional bed-and-breakfast. This will immediately decrease the amount of accommodation available in the city […]

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Children can get bored at airports waiting to board planes, but an initiative by Delta Air Lines is aiming to solve this by enlisting younger passengers to do help with some airline jobs in San Juan. Flying with young children can sometimes be hard work for parents, with the long waits resulting in boredom for […]

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India’s lunar robot Rover has gone walkies on the lunar surface and now been put to sleep less than two weeks after its successful and historic landing at the lunar south pole, India’s space mission said. However it seems that Rover didn’t find any water. The lunar day, which last 14 Earth days has come […]

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A part of China’s historic Great Wall that is hundreds of years old has been severely damaged by construction workers in central Shanxi province, who used an excavator to dig a hole as a short cut to the other side. Police say two people are suspected of trying to create a new, shorter route for […]

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The Cuban foreign ministry says it has uncovered and dismantled an illegal human trafficking ring aimed at recruiting Cubans to fight for Russia against Ukraine. It said that Cubans living in Russia and “even some in Cuba” had been “incorporated into the military forces taking part in the war in Ukraine”. Cuba is a close […]

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