Category: Trends

Comment on this story Comment NEW DELHI — India has begun randomly testing international passengers arriving at its airports for COVID-19, the country’s health minister said Thursday, citing an increase in cases in neighboring China. Mansukh Mandaviya announced the new rule in Parliament, where he also urged state governments to increase surveillance for any new […]

Comment on this story Comment BRUSSELS — If the corruption investigation rocking the European Union were a script for a Netflix series, it would probably get sent back to the writer’s room. Bags of cash? A bit literal. The casting? Cliche. But the scandal that has already seen a Greek member of the European Parliament […]

Comment on this story Comment Pope Francis warned Vatican bureaucrats on Thursday to beware the devil that lurks among them, saying it is an “elegant demon” that works in people who have a rigid, holier-than-thou way of living the Catholic faith. Francis used his annual Christmas greeting to the Roman Curia to again put the […]

Comment on this story Comment KABUL, Afghanistan — Turkey and Saudi Arabia became the latest Muslim-majority countries to condemn a decision by Taliban authorities to bar women from universities, while about two dozen women staged a protest in the streets of Kabul on Thursday. In another sign of domestic opposition, several Afghan cricketers condemned the […]

The Taliban has banned musical entertainment and singing for men in segregated wedding halls December 22, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. EST Sabrina, 19, dances in front of clapping family members at her Dec. 15 wedding celebration. (Elise Blanchard for The Washington Post) Comment on this story Comment KABUL — The spacious ballroom glittered with lights. […]

Comment on this story Comment SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — In homes and schools around Bosnia, youngsters this December have been preparing gift boxes they hope will put a smile on the faces of their peers living through war in Ukraine — just as such gifts did for many of their parents a generation ago. Responding to […]

Comment on this story Comment BEIRUT — Two soldiers were killed and three were injured in an explosion in northern Iraq, Iraqi state news said Thursday. The soldiers were traveling in an army vehicle a day earlier in the Makhmour district when an explosive device detonated, the state Iraqi News Agency reported. No group immediately […]

December 22, 2022 at 3:00 a.m. EST A patient with leg injuries is loaded into a Spanish military plane at the airport in Rzeszow, Poland, to be transported to Zaragoza, Spain, for treatment. (Photos by Kirsten Luce) Comment on this story Comment On a rainy day in October, Polish paramedic Jakob Balaban and seven of […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with President Biden at the White House on Wednesday, followed by an evening address before Congress, where he made the case for support to continue after 300 days of war. Biden and Zelensky presented a united front during the Ukrainian leader’s first public international appearance since Russia invaded his country […]

Comment on this story Comment ADELAIDE, Australia — Australian authorities say vandals have destroyed rock art believed to be some 30,000 years old. The vandals appeared to have removed parts of a barbed wire fence at Koonalda Cave and got underneath, before using their fingers to draw over the top of the Indigenous artwork, said […]