USA: Republican lawmaker moves to bar trans colleague from women’s bathrooms

A Republican congresswoman has introduced a bill to ban transgender women from using female bathrooms in the US Capitol, just weeks after the first-ever openly transgender lawmaker was elected to…

Ukraine: Russian gains accelerate as Kyiv’s Kursk gamble tanks

The Russian military is accelerating its gains along the front line in Ukraine at a crucial time for the conflict. Data from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW)…

Kenya: Catholic Church rejects $40,000 from President William Ruto

Kenya’s Catholic Church has rejected a donation of about $40,000 (£32,000) made by President William Ruto. He offered the money towards the building of a priest’s house and as a…

USA: California reports first case of emerging mpox strain

California has reported the first US case of mpox – formerly known as monkeypox – that is part of a new outbreak. The state’s department of health, the CDPH, said…

Turkey: Forty-seven on trial over deaths of ten babies

Forty-seven people have gone on trial in Turkey in connection with an alleged scam in which newborns were transferred between hospitals for profit. Prosecutors say doctors, nurses and ambulance drivers…

Germany: Defence Minister suspect sabotage behind severed undersea cables

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has said damage to two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea looks like an act of sabotage and a “hybrid action”, without knowing who is…

Abkhazia: President Aslan Bzhania resigns

The leader of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia is resigning after days of mass protests over a controversial pro-Russia bill. Aslan Bzhania’s press office said he was quitting “to maintain…

Georgia: Police clear protesters challenging ‘stolen’ election

Police in Georgia have clashed with demonstrators in the centre of the capital Tbilisi protesting against last month’s disputed election which they say was stolen by the government. The protesters…

Ukraine: Kyiv vows to ‘never submit’ as war reaches 1,000th day

Ukraine and Russia have both declared that they will fight until victory as they marked 1,000 days of war. Kyiv insisted on Tuesday that it will “never submit” in defending against Moscow’s…

South Sudan: Acute food insecurity to hit most people next year- UN

Almost 60 percent of South Sudan’s population will be acutely food insecure next year, with more than two million children at risk of malnutrition, warns data from a United Nations-backed…