Francesco Mengalli

A predominantly Baloch town in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province is mourning its dead after a strike on a wedding killed at least four people, including a child, and injured more than 60, according to local authorities. The blast hit around 9.30pm on 1 September in Kuhestak, a small

When critics wanted to dismiss Gloria Steinem, they focused on her appearance. Discussing the activist and journalist who turned feminism into a major civil rights movement, it might seem reductive to concentrate on her glasses. After Steinem – whose death at 92 was announced on Thursday – wore them on the cover

A 45-year-old woman has been killed and thrown off a motorway bridge near Florence, marking the seventh alleged femicide in Italy since mid-August. Lorana Isceri was abducted on Thursday afternoon, allegedly by her ex-boyfriend, Federico Vella, in the Rifredi area of Florence, before being forced into

Two individuals have been extracted alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal nine days after catastrophic flash floods left them stranded. The workers were retrieved during a sustained operation at the Trishuli 3A tunnel, a hydropower facility located in one of the regions most severely impacted by last week'

Two psychiatrists in New Zealand received approval on Friday to prescribe pharmaceutical-grade MDMA to individuals with severe post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The decision by New Zealand’s pharmaceutical regulatory body Medsafe makes the country the second worldwide to approve the party drug for use in treating PTSD, following

Russia’s suspected sabotage campaign across Europe appears to be gathering pace again, confronting governments with a problem they have struggled to solve since the start of the war in Ukraine: how to impose a meaningful cost on Moscow for attacks that remain deliberately below the threshold of conventional war.