Scotland is the first country to legally protect the right of women to access free feminine hygiene items.

Ukraine hinted at responsibility for new explosions at a military base in Russian-annexed Crimea that is an important supply line for Russia’s invasion.

Explosions and fires ripped through at least 17 locations on Wednesday.

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“Now the real work begins,” she told her supporters after losing her seat in Wyoming, in one of the most anticipated primary races of the year.

Four of the seven election commissioners said they stood by their decision a day earlier to disown figures announced by electoral commission chairman.

The woman was arrested and interrogated for five hours in a suburb known for its Japanese restaurants and bars.

The Bacillus-Calmette-Guerin vaccine has long been known to have broad effects on the immune system, and is still given to infants in the developing world and in countries where TB is prevalent.

Beijing was reportedly angry that the Sri Lankan foreign ministry asked China to “defer” the visit in response to Indian and US objections.

LA police have appealed for information from the public after a 30-year-old personal trainer from Sydney was killed outside a medical marijuana dispensary.

The New Zealand chocolate maker’s new limited edition Creamy Milk block has been translated as Miraka Kirīmi for Maori Language Week. Cue outrage.

The miners became confined underground on August 3 when a tunnel wall collapsed, triggering flooding throughout the mine.

Salman Rushdie has illuminated the hypocrisy, delusion and cravenness of the powerful, of the West’s intellectual and literary elite, even of Joe Biden.

The Taliban has taken to the streets of Kabul in Afghanistan to mark one year since it regained control of the capital.

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A murder investigation is under way after police say the remains were unwittingly brought to a south Auckland home from the auction.

State news agency Xinhua said among those sanctioned were the de facto Taiwanese ambassador to Washington, and the chief of the National Security Council.

Nina Lipscomb, 82, has early stage Alzheimer’s and wandered off from a home in Senoia last Monday evening.

Officials have not commented on rumours that Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is known as “Putin’s chef”, has been killed in the strike.

The search for US teen Kiely Rodni, who vanished after a party, is continuing.