Author: Rahul M

ROME (AP) — Italy’s parliament on Tuesday approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life in prison.The vote coincided with the international day for the elimination of violence against women, a day designated by the U.N. General Assembly.The law won bipartisan support from the center-right majority and the center-left opposition in the final vote in the Lower Chamber, passing with 237 votes in favor.The law, backed by the conservative government of Premier Giorgia Meloni, comes in response to a series of killings and other violence targeting women in Italy. It includes stronger…

Belarusian politician Mikola Statkevich has been returned to prison after being freed in a U.S.-brokered deal but refusing to leave his native country, activists said Tuesday.The former presidential candidate has been missing since Sept. 11, when a group of political prisoners were pardoned by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko at the request of U.S. President Donald Trump.Statkevich was placed on a bus that day with other released prisoners and transported to the Belarusian-Lithuanian border. However, the 69-year-old refused to leave Belarus in what he described as a “forced deportation,” instead kicking down the door of the bus and waiting for several…

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government imposed visa restrictions on Fritz Alphonse Jean, a member of Haiti’s transitional presidential council, accusing him of supporting gangs and other criminal organizations as the country’s political instability threatened to deepen.The U.S. did not name the person it sanctioned in late Monday’s announcement, but Jean confirmed it was him, telling The Associated Press on Tuesday that he rejected those accusations, which some believe are being used as a threat to try and influence Haiti’s politics.Haiti is due to hold elections by Feb. 7, when the nine-member transitional presidential council is supposed…

New DelhiNovember 26, 2025 07:29 AM IST First published on: Nov 26, 2025 at 05:00 AM IST The timing of, and the reason behind, the Centre’s decision to bring a Constitution amendment Bill that would have allowed it to directly govern the Union Territory of Chandigarh remains unknown but the government, before aborting the plan for the time being in the face of political backlash and resistance even from within the Punjab BJP, did try to reason it out — the main argument being that while the status of Chandigarh would remain unchanged, bringing it under Article 240 of the…

Netflix It’s never been easy to walk in the footsteps of Geralt of Rivia (Liam Hemsworth), and plenty of characters have lost their lives trying to do so during “The Witcher.” But one of the series’ showrunners says there’s a reason for all of that bloodshed — they want to tell impactful stories that bring change for the narrative’s central figures.  “I don’t think anyone is sitting around going, ‘Let’s just kill that person. Let’s have that shock value.’ One of the things that our characters have to deal with is…

We can debate the worthiness of Elon Musk’s accomplishments—building up Tesla, hollowing out the government, shooting for Mars—but we can all agree that his insistence on being seen as funny is his most grating quality.From the constant 4:20 references to his quote tweet “dunks” to awarding “Certified Bangers” badges to silly X posts, Musk’s desperation for validation knows no bounds. It can get pretty annoying when the richest guy on earth makes a joke and then awkwardly eyes the room waiting for everyone to laugh.But over the weekend, I was intrigued when a clip emerged of Musk telling Joe Rogan…

Thomas King, a Canadian author who had identified as part-Cherokee throughout his celebrated career, said on Monday that contrary to what he had believed his entire life, he has no Indigenous ancestry.King wrote in The Globe and Mail that his mother had told him that his biological father was part-Cherokee, but a genealogist working with an organization that aims to expose claims of false Indigenous heritage found no Cherokee connection. King said the findings were shared with him this month. “It’s been a couple of weeks since that video call, and I’m still reeling. At 82, I feel as though…

Zoë Schiffer: Yeah, I think that one thing that everyone can agree on is that Nvidia is undoubtedly one of the companies that has gone all in during this AI acceleration moment. For better or worse, about 90 percent of Nvidia’s sales, which were once dominated by chips for personal gaming computers now come from its data center business, and it feels like every time one of these partnerships between OpenAI and another company, Nvidia’s in there somewhere, it just feels like it’s attached to everyone else in this industry at this point.Max Zeff: Yeah, it’s done a great job…

It’s taken nearly a decade for “Stranger Things” to come to a close. First airing on Netflix in 2016, the ’80s-set sci-fi series follows Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), a young girl with an incredible set of superpowers, and her new friends Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) as they try to save Will (Noah Schnapp) from the Upside Down. Want to see how the tween-aged cast members have transformed since that first episode? Watch our video above. Despite the significant gaps between seasons, “Stranger Things” has maintained a…

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro started on Tuesday to serve his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt designed to keep him in office after losing the 2022 presidential elections, a move that many in the South American nation doubted would ever take place.Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has overseen the case, ruled Bolsonaro will remain at the same federal police headquarters where he has been since he was preemptively arrested on Saturday for being considered a flight risk. Brazil’s criminal law also could have allowed the 70-year-old to be transferred to a…