Babylon current affairs articles.
Female genital mutilation has been illegal in the Burkina Faso region of West Africa since 1996. However, around 50 girls are being treated for failed circumcision attempts. Twelve girls have been admitted to the Kaya Regional Hospital while 38 are…
Nobel Peace Prize winner and Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi stated that the jailing of two Reuters journalists had “nothing to do with freedom of expression at all”. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were found in…
Three villages southwest of Berlin have been evacuated as wildfire the size of 400 soccer fields spread today. Hundreds of firefighters were trying to cut trees to make long swathes in the forests to prevent the fire from spreading further.…
Ryanair and trade union Forsa have reached agreement in their talks over pilots’s dispute at the airline. Talks between Ryanair and the pilot’s union Forsa began on Wednesday morning and concluded on Thursday morning, at about 7.30am, after a…
An earthquake shook the north-eastern coast of Venezuela on Tuesday. It was felt across the Caribbean and sent people rushing out into the streets hundreds of kilometres away in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela. According to the United States…
There were shots fired in Kingsbury station in UK on Monday night. Three people were injured in this incident. The Metropolitan Police officers were called to the scene on Kingsbury Road, Brent, close to Kingsbury Tube station, at about 9.45pm…
A man was arrested in connection with a road crash in Co Donegal this morning who left two people dead and three seriously injured has been released without charge. A man and a woman in their twenties were killed.…
Mark Lewis, who is a famed libel and privacy lawyer, is leaving UK. Worn down by years of anti-Semitic abuse and death threats, he chose to leave. Anti-semitism is hostility to prejudice or discrimination against Jews. It is generally…
American “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin, who became the first woman inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of fame, has died in Detroit at the age of 76. Aretha was diagnosed with cancer in 2010. She announced last year,…
