Sweden, the first country to introduce legal gender reassignment, has begun restricting gender reassignment hormone treatments for minors, as it, like many Western countries, grapples with the highly-sensitive issue.. In May 2021 -- before the Swedish authorities' decision to restrict gender reassignment hormone treatments -- the prestigious Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm chose to restrict such hormone treatments to research projects only.
Two pilots have made a "miraculous" escape after their Boeing 737 water-bombing plane crashed and burned while fighting a blaze in remote Western Australia.. An investigation has been launched by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, which said it was the first "collision with terrain" involving a Boeing 737 in Australia.
Police said Wednesday they had seized enough cocaine to supply New Zealand for 30 years, after snaring a massive bundle of drugs floating in the Pacific Ocean.. Officials believe the drugs were dropped at a "floating transit point" in the Pacific Ocean, where they would have been picked up and taken to Australia.
With every passing moment, Ebru Firat knows the chances dim of finding her cousin alive under the rubble of a flattened building in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep.. In Gaziantep, where violent aftershocks rumble on, residents lack almost everything.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has so far only made one trip abroad since Russia invaded his country almost a year ago -- receiving a hero's welcome in Washington in December.. More than 10 billion euros of that sum has been spent on providing a home for some four million Ukrainians who have fled the conflict for the EU. Lete said it made sense that Zelensky's first call abroad had been to Washington, given that his priority was to win the war and Biden was supplying the most arms.
Desperate survivors sought refuge in the airport near Turkey's quake disaster zone on Tuesday, as hundreds of rescuers from more than 70 countries landed in the country.. With survivors scared to return to their homes after the devastating 7.8 magnitude tremor, the airport has become a refuge for many.
No new variants of Covid-19 emerged in Beijing in the weeks after China ended its zero-Covid policy late last year, a new study said on Wednesday.. But the new study by Chinese researchers, which analysed 413 samples from Beijing sequenced between November 14 and December 20, said "there is no evidence that novel variants emerged" during that time.
The United States said Tuesday it was working with partners to provide earthquake relief in Syria but would stand firm against working with the Damascus government.. He declined to name the non-governmental groups working with the United States, citing operational security.
Now age 29, Elian Gonzalez has grown up from the child whose 1999 family crisis became the unwitting symbol for the breakdown of Washington-Havana relations to this week becoming a candidate for a seat in Cuba's parliament.. Seen by many as the youth candidate, Gonzalez is running to represent Cardenas, a city 135 kilometers (84 miles) east of Havana.
Peru's embattled President Dina Boluarte on Tuesday inspected a southern region ravaged by mudslides that killed at least 15 people and affected thousands. . The official death toll from the mudslides is 15, but rescuers said many more people likely died.
