POLITICS

Amazon Inc. will now be reimbursing its US staff if they have to travel for non-life-threatening medical treatments, including abortions. The company in a message to its employees said that it will be pay up to $4,000 (£3,201) for such travel expenses annually.

A female suicide bomber has been accused of carrying out the attack in Pakistan that killed four people, including three Chinese nationals, on Tuesday.

Some French voters decided that Mbappe was better than Macron and Le Pen

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has accused India of stalling the health agency's efforts to revise the global Covid death toll after it reportedly pegged India's death toll at 4 million as against the official figure of 520,000

A recent order by the civic officials in India's capital New Delhi, ordering the closing down of meat shops in the city during the Hindu festival of Navratri, has sparked outrage in the country.

The head of Motoyzhyn village, her husband, and her son were killed by the Russian forces during their occupation of the village near Kyiv, according to Ukrainian officials.

China has received backlash from Australian authorities after a court in Beijing carried out a trial of journalist Cheng Lei's case behind closed doors, under heavy security on Thursday.

Brewing giants Carlsberg (CARLb.CO) and Heineken have joined the long list of companies that have pulled out of Russia as a mark of protests against Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Authorities in Bahrain shut down an Indian restaurant after its manager allegedly denied entry to a woman wearing hijab. The incident occurred at Bahrain Lanterns, a restaurant in the Adliya area of the country's capital Manama last week on Thursday.

Several media reports have claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been trying to hide the actual numbers of Russian soldiers killed in his war against Ukraine

Indian hotel aggregator has delisted the hotel in Delhi which had denied accommodation to a Kashmiri man despite having valid identification cards. The development came after a video of the man being refused accommodation went viral on social media.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange married his partner Stella Morris in the Belmarsh prison in London. He has been at Belmarsh since 2019.

Evan Neumann, a suspect in last year's US Capitol riots has been granted asylum in Belarus. He had sought asylum in the country alleging "political persecution" in the US.

At least eight people were burnt alive following the death of a village leader in Rampurhat village of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India.

The UK has been cracking down against individuals who are deemed to be supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A 96-year-old man who managed to survive Nazi concentration camps during World War II, lost his life in Russian airstrikes on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

The students who had participated in the protest against the hijab ban in schools and colleges in the Indian state of Karnataka, will not be given a second chance to appear for the practical exams.

UK's new "kleptocracy" unit has launched an investigation to identify assets that are allegedly kept by Russian President Vladimir Putin in London.

An Indian court has upheld the ban imposed on wearing hijab to schools and colleges in the southern state of Karnataka. The court dismissed as many as five petitions filed by students against the ban.

The trade sanctions imposed by western nations along with the European Union on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine have meant that one of the biggest oil and gas exporters is now left with additional stocks of the two resources with nowhere to send them to.

It's not just humans who are being made to suffer in the Russia-Ukraine war, but animals too have been bearing the brunt of the war initiated by Vladimir Putin. Ukraine has been trying to rescue animals kept in its zoos but has not been successful.

Several people, including little children and women, have been left injured after Russia bombed a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. The Russian strike has reportedly left at least 17 people injured.

A small group of British soldiers has left the country to possibly fight in Ukraine. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed the same and warned the soldiers this was against the law and could even lead to prosecution.

After the takeover of Afghanistan in August last year, the Taliban had promised they would respect the rights of women "within the limits of Islam," but things on the ground say otherwise.

A senior Royal Navy admiral has claimed that Russian President Vladimir Putin hastily decided to attack Ukraine because he is allegedly ill. The now-retired Falklands veteran Rear Admiral Chris Parry made the claims during an interaction with children at a school last week.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's alleged love child, Luiza Krivonogikh, has disappeared from social media after being massively trolled over Putin's war in Ukraine. The 18-year-old is the daughter of cleaner-turned-multimillionaire Svetlana Krivonogikh.

Russian President Vladimir Putin who has put the lives of his countrymen and Ukrainians at risk has allegedly hidden his mistress and their four children at a luxurious private chalet in Switzerland.

Reigning world champion Max Verstappen says it is "wrong" to race in a country that is at war

Putin said such teachings are "close to a crime against humanity dressed up in the name and under the flag of progress."