At least 150 members of the Fulani ethnic group in Nigeria’s northwestern region have died in a camp run by Nigeria’s military in recent months, according to a report released by Amnesty International on Thursday. Most of the dead were children, the group said. Around 1,500 Fulani people have been detained for three months at…
Luis Puenzo, an Argentine film director whose “The Official Story,” based on the yearslong “dirty war” in which Argentina’s military regime killed and disappeared thousands of people it perceived as its enemies, brought his country its first Academy Award for best foreign language film, died on Tuesday in Buenos Aires. He was 80. His death…
On May 11, 1972, Soviet police arrived at the Kyiv apartment of a young psychiatrist named Semyon Gluzman. Officially, he was charged with spreading “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.” But his real crime, the one officials did not want publicized, was questioning the Soviet Union’s widespread use of psychiatry as a tool of oppression — and…
A commission appointed by Tanzania’s government on Thursday said that the deadly violence that followed last year’s presidential election was fomented by well-trained agitators with outside help and the authorities were not to blame. The commission was set up by President Samia Suluhu Hassan as the first consolidated attempt by the state to explain the…
Over the past two years, a furry monster with bunny ears and a vicious line of serrated teeth became the subject of a global craze, as shoppers waited hours in line or paid hundreds or thousands of dollars for the most coveted Labubus. The boom turned Pop Mart, the Chinese company that sells Labubus, into…
