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Beijing calls Washington’s 10% additional tariff ‘unfair,’ warns of countermeasures.

A female Spanish soccer player told a court Monday that her boss kissed her against her will as millions watched on television, then pressured her to say it was consensual, in a case widely seen as putting machismo in sport on trial.

According to an investigation by Radio Farda, at least 133 women and girls were killed in the last year for “honor” or other reasons by their husbands, fathers, and brothers – meaning that one woman is a victim of “femicide” every two days in the country.

To prove they are alive and unfreeze their pensions, elderly people in Turkmenistan must travel to a family doctor and three separate government offices, knowing that the process could be different next time.

Taiwan said its public sector workers would be banned from using DeepSeek, a recently released Chinese artificial intelligence model, due to concerns over data leaks, joining a group of U.S. government agencies that reportedly introduced a similar restriction.

The blogger, Temirlan Ensebek, 29, manages the satirical Instagram account Qaznews24. Police arrested him on January 17, 2025, and searched his home. On January 18, an Almaty court approved his pretrial detention for two months on vague criminal charges of “inciting interethnic discord” in connection with a post he uploaded to the Qaznews24 Instagram account over a year ago.