MEXICO CITY (AP) — Lawyer Isabel Lazo’s jobs are being systematically canceled by Nicaragua’s increasingly repressive government. Lazo worked at a university before the government of President Daniel Ortega closed it. She now is employed at a nongovernmental organization that she fears
Half the population believe such stunts have been handled “badly”, a Savanta poll has found. Only 39 per cent said the police do a good job when handling eco demonstrations, such as those by Just Stop Oil. However, the public is split
A deepening demographic crisis has Sardinia, Italy, at the forefront of an alarming trend, as birthrates plummeted to a staggering 0.95 births per woman, the lowest in Italy, significantly below the 2-birth per woman threshold necessary for population sustainability. The island faces
A man who ‘ran Hamas’ terrorist operations’ now lives in a council house in an area of London home to a fifth of the UK’s Jewish community. Muhammad Qassem Sawalha, 62, left the West Bank in the ‘90s by using a relative’s
Almost all ethnic Armenians have fled Nagorno-Karabakh after Azerbaijan seized the region last week. More than 100,000 ethnic Armenians have departed, out of Nagorno-Karabakh’s estimated population of 120,000. The devastating exodus raises the potential end of centuries of Armenian presence in the
Separatist country Nagorno-Karabakh is planning to reintegrate back into Azerbaijan following three decades of both regions accusing each other of targeted attacks. While the original population of Nagorno-Karabakh was nearly 120,000, about 84,770 have fled for Armenia. Nagorno-Karabakh, which was run by
Animal rescues in Maine have found themselves in the midst of a major cat problem as feral cat colonies are on the rise. “Shelters all across the country are experiencing a surge in animals needing care, and Maine organizations are no exception,”
The City of Pittsburgh will be randomly selecting 30 archers to go bow hunting in two city parks in an effort to control the deer population. “In cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the City of Pittsburgh is preparing
About a third of 18-year-old women in Japan may never have children, a government institute said on Wednesday, in the latest data spelling an uphill battle to reverse a dwindling population in the world’s third-largest economy. The National Institute of Population and
The Autonomy thinktank says that between now and 2035 the number of over-70s will grow by two percent year on year. But that is in stark contrast to the number of care professionals – which will increase by just 0.87 percent each