News Digest

President Zelensky delivered a historic speech from the United States Capitol, expressing gratitude for American support in fighting Russian aggression since the war began – and asking for more.

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The Taliban government issued a statement suspending all women from attending university. The highest level of education most Afghan girls will be able to attain is grade 6 — the final year of primary school.

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South Korea has a problem: thousands of people are dying a lonely death. Under South Korean law, a “lonely death” is when someone who lives alone, cut off from family or relatives, dies due to suicide or illness, with their body found only after “a certain amount of time” has passed.

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Japan has made a significant policy change to allow it to get the ability to strike other nations, a move widely seen as a major step toward rearming the nation, more than seven decades since it demilitarized after World War II.

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Lionel Messi, wearing a black Qatari robe over his blue-and-white Argentina shirt, kissed the World Cup trophy. “It’s just crazy that it became a reality this way. I craved for this so much. I knew God would bring this gift to me.” Messi said.

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Bernard Arnault, the chairman of French luxury goods giant LVMH, has just become the first European to top Bloomberg’s list of the world’s richest people, relegating Elon Musk to second place.

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It is hoped that the Smokefree Environments Bill will reduce the number of people who smoke daily to less than 5% by 2025, with the eventual aim of eliminating the practice altogether.

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The United Nations warns that next year, nearly half of Somalia's population could be in a "critical food crisis," with full-on famine conditions in some of the hardest-hit parts of the country.

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Companies are getting increasingly creative with their advent calendars, from wine, makeup, jam, beef jerky, jewelry, pet treats, socks, skin care, hot sauce, candles, tea bags and Pokémon pieces are just some of this year's possibilities.

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About 967,400 adult immigrants became US citizens this past fiscal year, according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services. The record high comes as the government works to reduce a backlog of applications that was worsened by the pandemic.

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