Bethlehem Filled With Christmas Tourists for First Time Since 2019 Visitors are returning to the West Bank city of Bethlehem this Christmas season, after a two-year absence because of COVID-19. At this time last year, most stores and tourist places i...
New Zealand passed a law on Tuesday to set a lifetime ban on buying cigarettes for any person born after January 1, 2009. This means that the minimum age for buying cigarettes will keep going up and up. And someone trying to buy cigarettes 50 years f...
Ukraine Shoots Down Russian Drones, US to Send Missile Defense System Ukraine says it shot down 13 drones launched by Russia Wednesday over the capital Kyiv. A city official in Kyiv, Serhii Popko, wrote on the social media service Telegram the attemp...
FTX Founder Arrested on Fraud Charges The United States has charged the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX with several financial crimes. Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested Monday in the Bahamas. He had resigned as FTX chief last month, shortly after...
Many Poor Children in Ecuador Suffer from Malnutrition Erwin Ronquillo, an official with the government program Ecuador Grows Without Malnutrition, is worried about hunger in his country. Ronquillo said child malnutrition is chronic among Ecuador's p...
Kenyas Maasai Turn from Lion-killing to Olympics The Maasai people are easily the most identifiable in Kenya with their very colorful clothing. They raise animals and live near some of Kenya's most visited wildlife parks. Their hunting has often been...
Lebanon's New Poor Face Long-Term Economic Insecurity Lebanon is a former middle-income country, one that is neither rich nor poor. But its financial system collapsed in 2019. The collapse led to a great drop in the value of the Lebanese pound. And t...
Hours after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, health workers at a children's hospital in southern Ukraine started secretly planning how to save their babies. Russians were suspected of seizing young children without parents and sending them to Russ...
Chinese Businesses Prepare for COVID Infections after Easing Restrictions Manufacturers and businesses wanting to stay open in China are staying careful by keeping COVID-19 measures. The Chinese government is beginning to ease its severe COVID-19 res...
The American basketball star and Olympic champion Brittney Griner is being released from prison. She had been held in Russia for almost 10 months. 美国篮球明星、奥运冠军布里特尼格林纳即将出狱。她在俄罗斯被关押了近10个月...
DNA Helps Holocaust Survivors to Reconstruct Family Trees The United States-based Center for Jewish History is launching a project to provide genetic tests to Holocaust survivors and their children. 总部设在美国的犹太历史中心正在启动一...
Indonesia to Ban Sex Outside of Marriage Indonesia's parliament on Tuesday voted for new laws to ban sex outside of marriage. The new measure also bans people from insulting the president and government. Once in force, the bans will affect foreign vi...
Confusion over Irans Morality Police as Women Drop Hijab Confusion over the standing of Iran's morality police continues after state media gave different reports over the weekend. But more Iranian women have appeared in public without the required he...
Taliban Permits Girls to Take High School Graduation Exams Afghanistan's Taliban-led government says it will permit girls to take their high school graduation exams this week. The move came although the Taliban earlier banned girls from attending mid...
India and South Korea are mourning and searching for answers after weekend disasters that left hundreds of people killed. 在遭遇周末数百人死亡的灾难后，印度和韩国正在哀悼和寻找答案。 Saturday, more than 150 people were c...
