By Agence France-Presse Conservative counter-campaigns are unravelling global advances in women’s rights, the latest “backlash” in a series dating to the 1980s, activists and experts warned ahead of International Women’s Day on Friday. Organized and politicized, the counter-movement unpicks abortion rights, fuels online hate and harassment and encourages domestic violence, researchers say. “Global progress towards […]
By Agence France-Presse Veteran Franco-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski goes on trial in France on Tuesday over allegations he defamed a British actress who accused him of sexual abuse in the 1980s. The 90-year-old is wanted in the United States over the rape of a 13-year-old in 1977 and faces several other accusations of alleged sexual […]
By Agence France-Presse Vietnamese capital Hanoi was blanketed by a thick haze of pollution on Tuesday that obscured high-rise buildings and left the city’s nearly nine million people breathing toxic air. The city topped air monitoring website IQAir’s table of the world’s most polluted cities early Tuesday afternoon. Levels of PM2.5 pollutants — cancer-causing microparticles […]