Cute
The Heroic Rat That Was Awarded A Gold Medal For Sniffing Out 71 Mines In Cambodia Is Retiring
Magawa, a rat that was awarded a gold medal for his job detecting mines in Cambodia, is retiring after a five year career.
Kassy Cho
Kassy Cho is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Almost. She is based in Taipei, Taiwan. Email her at kassy@almostmag.co.
Featured
This Artist Built A “Portal” Between Two Cities In Poland And Lithuania And It Looks Awesome
Benediktas Gylys, an artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania, has created a “portal” connecting Vilinus to Lubin, a city in Poland that allows people to see the other city in real time.
Newsletter
Naomi Osaka Quits The French Open, 215 Indigenous Children's Remains Found In Canada And More
All the world news you need to know about this week 🌏
Featured
Naomi Osaka Quit The French Open After Being Fined For Not Speaking To Press For Her Mental Health
World No. 2 tennis champion Naomi Osaka has withdrawn from the French Open, a day after she was fined $15,000 by the grand slam for opting to skip the mandatory post-match press conference.
Featured
215 Indigenous Children’s Remains Have Been Found At A Former School To Assimilate Them In Canada
A mass grave containing the remains of 215 indigenous First Nation children, some as young as three years old, has been discovered at a former school to assimilate indigenous children in Canada.
Women
Naomi Osaka Didn’t Speak To Media At The French Open For Her Mental Health And Was Fined $15,000
Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka has been fined $15,000 by the French Open after she did not attend a mandatory press conference after her first match on Sunday.
Activism
People In Brazil Held Mass Protests To Impeach The Far-Right President For His Failure To Handle COVID
Tens of thousands of people across Brazil took to the streets on Saturday May 29 to demand the country’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, step down over his failure to handle the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed nearly half a million people in the country.
Featured
This Italian Woman Who Allegedly Killed Herself After Her Leaked Sex Tape Went Viral May Actually Have Been Murdered
Prosecutors in Italy have opened a murder investigation into the death of a woman who was thought to have killed herself in 2016 after her leaked sex tape became a meme.
Newsletter
🛩 Belarus "Hijacks" A Plane To Arrest A Journalist, Kenya's First Woman Chief Justice And More
All the world news you need to know about this week 🌏
Featured
Samoa’s First Woman Prime Minister Had To Be Sworn In In A Tent After Her Predecessor Locked Her Out
Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, Samoa’s first woman prime minister, has been sworn in in a tent outside the parliament after her predecessor locked her out of the building.
Politics
Israel And Palestinian Militants In Gaza Have Agreed To A Ceasefire After Airstrikes Killed 230 People
Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza have agreed to a ceasefire on Thursday May 20 after 11 days of fighting, which left more than 230 people dead, most of them in Gaza.
Video
This Emirati Woman Has Become One Of The First Car Mechanics In The UAE
Meet Huda al-Matroushi, the owner of a car repair shop in the United Arab Emirates who is breaking gender stereotypes.