Zara Aleena, a 35-year old British woman and aspiring lawyer, has died after she was attacked while walking home in East London during the early morning of Sunday June 26.
Authorities in the Philippines have ordered journalist and Nobel laureate Maria Ressa's independent news organization, Rappler, to shut down, in another blow to press freedom in the country.
Following two weeks of staging anti-government protest over rising fuel and food prices across Ecuador, Indigenous organizations will end an 18-day strike after reaching an agreement with the government about their demands on Thursday June 30.
Mohammed Zubair, a Muslim Indian journalist and a prominent critic of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, has been arrested on charges of insulting religious sentiments and promoting enmity between religious groups.
Israel has loosened its abortion laws to allow people to get abortion pills through the country's universal health system and not have to appear in front of a special committee to get approval to terminate a pregnancy.
Russia struck a busy shopping mall in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk with a missile on Monday June 27, killing at least 18 people and injuring about 60 others, Ukrainian authorities said.
Thousands of people flooded the streets of Oslo, Norway, in a protest against hate after a gunman killed two people and wounded 21 others outside a gay bar and several entertainment venues in the city.
On Friday June 24, the US Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, a landmark 1973 ruling that guaranteed access to abortion as a constitutional right.