Shorouk Express Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email A Democratic senator who was a champion of gun reforms in the wake of the Sandy Hook shooting in his state blamed Donald…
Shorouk Express Ayan (not her real name) was eight years old when her aunt asked her to go to the living room. Several women were sitting in a circle, waiting for her. “I didn’t know what they were going to do to me,” she says. “They told me to sit down and then my aunts…
Shorouk Express Since 2018, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has stated that “comprehensive” sex education plays a central role in preparing young people for a “safe, productive, fulfilling life in a world where HIV and AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), unintended pregnancies, gender-based violence (GBV) and gender inequality still pose serious risks to their well-being.”…
Shorouk Express Chief of staff of Houthi rebels dies after Israeli airstrike An Israeli airstrike targeting the top leaders of Yemen’s Houthi rebels in August killed the chief of staff of its military, officials said. The Houthis have acknowledged the killing of Maj Gen Muhammad Abdul Karim al-Ghamari, who had been sanctioned by the UN…
Shorouk Express In April 2025, a decision by the Supreme Court of England and Wales determined that the legal definition of a woman was based on biological sex. It provoked a wave of discriminatory incidents and raised the spectre of new restrictions for transgender people. More recently, attempts by conservatives to connect the murder of…
Shorouk Express Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email Following the shock assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month, Americans across party lines increasingly think political violence is necessary to “get…
Shorouk Express Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email A rally organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson and attended by more than 110,000 people was marred by violence on Saturday, with officers…
Shorouk Express Belgium’s Security and Home Affairs Minister Bernard Quintin wants to put soldiers on Brussels’ streets to fight escalating drug violence, a plan that is nearing realization. “The army has to defend the integrity of the territory. Usually, soldiers do this at our borders or far beyond them. But the war against drug crime…
Shorouk Express On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Syria’s Islamist-led government has begun deploying internal security forces in Sweida, a predominantly Druze area, following intense sectarian bloodshed that has claimed hundreds of lives. The deployment,…
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