Bolivia will strip bureaucrats of their lunch break, reduce in-person schooling and slash use of the public car fleet to alleviate a crippling fuel shortage, President Luis Arce has announced. Arce unveiled the plan to deal with a problem that has brought people out on the streets for months against his government, setting up roadblocks…

Veteran actor Chinedu Ikedieze, widely recognised by his stage name Aki, recently opened up about his experiences with childhood bullying, which significantly affected his self-esteem and self-worth due to a medical condition he has lived with. Best known for his role in the iconic late 1990s film Aki na Ukwa, Chinedu revealed that the harsh…

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa hailed the start of a "new history" for his country on Thursday, signing into force a constitutional declaration regulating its five-year transitional period and laying out rights for women and freedom of expression. The declaration comes three months after Islamist-led rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad's repressive government, leading to calls for an…

A US judge on Thursday ordered six federal agencies to rehire thousands of probationary workers fired as part of Donald Trump's push to slash the size and scope of government. The ruling is the latest judicial setback for the administration, coming on the heels of a string of legal defeats that nevertheless seem not to…

Spain, which is nearing the end of a years-long drought, can expect such dry spells to become increasingly "frequent and severe" due to global warming, according to a scientific report published Thursday. The Mediterranean country has long faced "semi-permanent water stress" due to its geographic location, said the report by climate and oceanography experts from…