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Afghan media workers face growing restrictions under Taliban rule, with women journalists pushed further from reporting, broadcasting and public visibility. Credit: Learning Together.by External Source (kabul)Thursday, June 11, 2026Inter Press Service KABUL, June 11 (IPS) – Afghanistan ranks 175th in the Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index this year. Out of 180 countries on the list, only Iran, Syria, China, North Korea and Eritrea ranked lower than Afghanistan. Arrests narrow opportunities for workThe Taliban’s arrests and imprisonment of journalists have further narrowed opportunities for journalism.Several prominent journalists are currently in prison. They include Shakib Ahmad Nazari, who is reportedly being held…

U.K. companies are facing some of the highest industrial electricity prices in the developed world, and AI’s growing energy demands are sparking concerns over how companies can invest in the tech without jeopardizing sustainability. The problem, Greg Holmes, field CTO of IBM-owned Apptio, says in this Q&A, is compounded because organizations have little to no visibility into how much energy their AI workloads consume, or where that energy even comes from.Apptio’s platform, acquired by IBM in 2023, looks to meet the challenge by helping organizations track the financial and resource costs of running data across hybrid environments. Holmes argues that greater visibility…

When you’re in the throes of postpartum depression (PPD), you know how hard it is to get out of bed in the morning, let alone get through the day. The fog you’re in and lack of motivation that often comes with PPD can make even seemingly simple things feel nearly impossible to do.[1]“Postpartum depression can make even basic tasks feel overwhelming,” says Sipra Laddha, MD, a perinatal psychiatrist in Atlanta and the founder of LunaJoy, a women’s mental health practice. But the little things you do for yourself each day can actually go a long way in helping you manage…

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley says his panel this year will call on former special counsel Jack Smith to testify about Arctic Frost, the code name for the 2022-23 investigation into efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election. And the Iowa Republican welcomes more prosecutions involving Arctic Frost, including the House moving forward with the potential impeachment of U.S. District Chief Judge James Boasberg, an Obama appointee who approved gag orders for subpoenas in the probe. Mr. Grassley said Arctic Frost represents the perfect example of the political weaponization of the government. “The attempt was to…

A version of this story appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Former President Donald Trump has been campaigning in between his many different court appearances for much of the year. But his decision to attend the first day of his $250 million civil fraud trial in New York created another opportunity to appear on camera from inside a courtroom when the judge allowed photographers to document the moment before proceedings got underway. Keeping track of the dizzying array of civil and criminal cases is a full-time job. He is…

The House on Thursday rejected a three-week extension of one of the government’s most powerful surveillance authorities for collecting information on foreign threats overseas, further raising the prospect that the law will expire on Saturday.In a 218-to-198 vote, Democrats and several Republicans opposed even temporarily renewing a statute that underpins the government’s cornerstone electronic spying program, known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. It left the law, now set to expire after midnight on Friday, facing its gravest threat in years, with the Senate also at an impasse over extending it.A clutch of bipartisan lawmakers had until…

Are layoffs on the rise? The number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose again in early June, but it isn’t because businesses are cutting more jobs. Source link

U.S. forces struck a commercial tanker in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, the third such attack in a week on ships in the region, including one that killed three Indian seafarers and prompted a diplomatic protest from New Delhi.The U.S. Central Command has said that each of the targeted ships had violated its blockade of Iran and “failed to comply with directions” from American forces. Oman’s military launched operations to rescue dozens of crew members, who were all Indian, from the stricken tankers.But three crew members missing after a U.S. strike on the oil tanker Settebello on Wednesday were…

What Does It Mean to Have Mood Swings?Shifts in your emotions and mood are a normal, common, and healthy way to react to events that take place in our lives, says Robert McFerren, a licensed clinical social worker and executive director of the Pathlight Mood & Anxiety Center in Austin, Texas.Emotions may change quickly in response to a specific situation, says Hayden Center Jr., PhD, a licensed professional counselor and contributing faculty member at Walden University. For example, say you start the day feeling happy but then find out your friend lost her job. You might rapidly go from feeling…

One of the biggest questions in science is how life first emerged on Earth. Researchers generally agree that the appearance of the first biopolymers and their building blocks marked a critical step in the origin of life (OoL). However, scientists still do not know exactly how a collection of prehistoric inert chemicals (gases) transformed into the first living systems. The mystery remains difficult to solve because the full sequence of events that led to life is impossible to observe directly and extremely challenging to recreate. Over the past century, scientists have proposed numerous hypotheses, most of them centered on chemical…