At least 41 young men in South Africa are dead as a result of getting their foreskins removed ... and the fatal circumcisions were performed as part of traditional initiation ceremonies.

Noelia Castillo, a Spanish woman who sought euthanasia and fought a protracted legal battle with her family over her right to do so, received life-ending medicine on Thursday in Barcelona. For a year and a half, Castillo pursued her right to die after her father put up a lengthy legal battle when a medical body in Catalonia approved his daughter’s request for euthanasia in 2024. As the family's struggle unfolded, Castillo’s case was closely followed in Spain, which passed legislation in 2021 e

After a joint US-Israeli strike on Iran in late February triggered a war in the Middle East, social media posts falsely claimed that more than 420,000 Israelis had fled the conflict to Thailand. But a Thai immigration officer told AFP the figure represented total visitor entries from Israel in 2025. As of the end of March, officials estimate that 30,000 Israeli nationals were in Thailand.