| India’s swing in favor of girls Posted: 17 Apr 2018 12:12 PM PDT ![India's swing in favor of girls]( "India's swing in favor of girls") A string of protests has erupted in India over recent days – in the streets, on social media, and, notably, among Bollywood actresses. The size of the protests suggests a strong challenge to India's historic fatalism about the role of girls and women as weak, submissive, or expendable. Rape remains a particular problem in India, even after mass protests in 2012 over an attack on a young woman in Delhi.
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| Tunisia's democracy: Freedom is disappointingly messy, but there's hope Posted: 17 Apr 2018 10:49 AM PDT ![Tunisia's democracy: Freedom is disappointingly messy, but there's hope]( "Tunisia's democracy: Freedom is disappointingly messy, but there's hope") Tarek Dziri cannot forget Tunisia's revolution for a single minute. Mr. Dziri was 26 years old and a new father, working as a chef in the town of Al Fahs, 40 miles south of the capital, when riots broke out in central Tunisia in December 2010 against the country's dictatorial then-president, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. On Jan. 12, 2011, Dziri and his friends decided to join the protest movement and demonstrate in front of the Al Fahs police station to denounce the killing of innocent civilians.
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| Meanwhile on ... Réunion Island, there is now a turtle sanctuary Posted: 17 Apr 2018 09:35 AM PDT ![Meanwhile on ... Réunion Island, there is now a turtle sanctuary]( "Meanwhile on ... Réunion Island, there is now a turtle sanctuary") Réunion Island, on a beach where sea turtles were once hunted and then bred commercially, there is now a turtle sanctuary. Kélonia was founded in 1994 to care for and protect the giant creatures (they can weigh as much as 1,500 pounds), which are among the most ancient on earth. Until fairly recently, sea turtles were hunted for their meat and perceived medicinal properties.
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| Russia wants US military out of Syria. But it still needs US to help bring peace. Posted: 17 Apr 2018 09:06 AM PDT ![Russia wants US military out of Syria. But it still needs US to help bring peace.]( "Russia wants US military out of Syria. But it still needs US to help bring peace.") Whatever the message the US hoped to send Russia with its carefully orchestrated missile barrage Friday on alleged chemical warfare sites in Syria, it doesn't seem to have changed any minds in the Kremlin. Moscow remains convinced that the US has no coherent endgame for Syria, and its continued occupation of about a third of Syrian territory, together with its allies, has no purpose other than to play the role of spoiler, analysts here say.
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