by CIVICUSFriday, June 12, 2026Inter Press Service CIVICUS discusses Botswana’s decriminalisation of same-sex relations with Faith Gunda, a Botswana-based law student and human rights defender, a member of the CIVICUS Protest Lab and co-founder of Sisterhood Chain International, a solidarity initiative that supports grassroots groups and amplifies young women’s voices. Faith GundaIn March, Botswana formally removed colonial-era provisions that criminalised same-sex relations from its penal code, marking the culmination of over a decade of sustained civil society activism. This reform aligned the law with landmark constitutional rulings from 2019 and 2021, making Botswana a progressive leader on a continent where…
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3. Alcohol Interferes With Your Internal ThermostatAlcohol can affect your body’s ability to regulate temperature — and being dehydrated can exacerbate this by lowering your body’s ability to sweat and maintain a normal internal thermostat.[5]“Alcohol dilates your blood vessels, so you feel sort of warmer than you are, then drinking further dehydrates you on top of the heat,” says Miriam Fischer, MD, an emergency physician at MedStar Health based in Washington, DC.It’s important to listen to your body carefully so you can notice symptoms, which is harder if you’ve had too much to drink, Dr. Fischer adds. “If you start…
A team of researchers from the CSIR-Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI), the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and the S N Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences has developed a new type of highly precise filtration membrane. The study, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, describes a technology that could help industries cut energy use and dramatically increase water reuse. Many industrial activities depend on separating different substances from one another. These separation processes are essential for tasks such as drug purification, textile dye treatment, and food production.…
WASHINGTON — A senior administration official started the day giving an Iran peace plan a 75% shot but upped the odds to 85% by Friday afternoon — as the White House sought to calm concerns that President Trump could sign a bad deal. “I’m calling 75% confidence that we’re going to be signing this agreement soon,” the senior official told reporters in a small-group morning call around 10 a.m. on the heels of Trump’s Thursday afternoon announcement that the plan was “approved” by Iranian leaders. Hours later, the same US official gave even more optimistic projections. President Trump announced a potentially…
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Oil prices plunged to their lowest level in weeks and stocks rallied on Friday after President Trump called off plans for another day of strikes on Iran, saying that a peace deal could come as soon as this weekend.The gains in global stock markets followed a strong rally on Wall Street on Thursday, as investors were hopeful of a deal and awaited SpaceX’s I.P.O., which shot up 20 percent from its I.P.O. price on its first day of trading.On Thursday, Mr. Trump had threatened a third straight day of strikes on Iran before canceling the operation later in the day,…
Editor’s Note: Welcome to Prompt, your weekly briefing on the shifting AI landscape. We provide an analytical look at the week’s biggest developments, paired with a curated roundup of the stories that actually matter. OpenAI’s IPO filing this week marks another milestone for the AI industry. But the filing also arrives at a time when organizations are facing tougher questions about AI spending. As vendors work to show how they will turn growth into sustainable businesses, enterprises are increasingly being asked to demonstrate what they’re getting in return for their AI investments.With the move, OpenAI joins Anthropic, which filed for an…
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I tilted my face up and gave the eye in the sky the finger. It didn’t matter. They already knew where I was. “Let’s go in.” “Wait,” said Gibson, both hands cradling a mug of Mormon tea—a desert plant with tiny orange flowers that isn’t tea at all and doesn’t even taste like it. “You want to send my films to space? Like, to aliens? To another planet?” “Well,” said Eustace. “To orbit near another planet. Nobody knows if there’s any life there. But it’s possible.” I said, “The eiroscope is going anyway, and we’ve already bundled up as much…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: Federal immigration agents arrested several convicted killers, a rapist and multiple drug traffickers in a single day Thursday, underscoring the Trump administration’s push to target what Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials call the “worst of the worst” criminal illegal immigrants living in the U.S.”Yesterday, [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] arrested multiple murderers, rapists, and drug traffickers from our communities,” Homeland Security Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital.”Nearly 70% of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S.,” she…