Anti-war rallies were held in major cities around the world on November 17. The largest march on this day was in Berlin, which, according to various estimates, attracted more than five thousand people. Anti-war march in Berlin.

Residents of Sweden are faced with a shortage of sweets on store shelves - local producers have run out of supplies. The Guardian writes that demand for Swedish sweets has increased due to a TikTok video. It all started with a video by US marketer Marygrace Graves, in which she tries Swedish candies at the BonBon store in New York. The video received millions of views on TikTok, and crowds began to gather outside the store to try the sweets from Sweden.

Akerke Beisenbek, a 28-year-old from Kazakhstan, blogs about motherhood and living with a disability due to complications during childbirth. To facilitate childbirth, doctors cut her perineum, and Akerke later discovered that the contents of the intestines were coming out through the vagina. Now the girl is forced to live with a stoma - an opening in the abdomen to which a bag is attached to drain the intestinal contents.

Advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Mykhailo Podolyak, revealed some details of the “resilience plan” that the head of the country, Vladimir Zelensky, should present to citizens in the near future. According to the document, the authorities intend to “raise the morale” of Ukrainians, weakened by the victory of Republican Donald Trump in the US elections, The Times writes .

An anesthesiologist in China injected his girlfriend, who suffered from insomnia, with a lethal dose of propofol, a drug used for general anesthesia. The man was sentenced to just two and a half years in prison for “murder by negligence,” writes the South China Morning Post (SCMP). Chinese doctor Qu worked as an anesthesiologist in a hospital in Sichuan province in southwest China. The man met his girlfriend Chen in the summer of 2022.

In August 2023, 16-year-old Dana Ilyinykh from Kamensk-Uralsk returned late in the evening on the last train, but never made it home. Her body was found the next day in a nearby forest park. Investigators had different versions: health problems, drugs, suicide. Dana's father did not believe them and began his own investigation. On camera footage, he saw that a man on a bicycle was slowly following his daughter for 40 minutes.

State Duma deputy from the Kurgan region, member of the United Russia party, Alexander Iltyakov condemned women who decided to terminate their pregnancies and called them “murderers of their kind.” He stated this to the Ura.ru news agency. “As long as the birthing machine is working, do what you are told to do on earth. Otherwise, going against the will of the Creator, you kill yourself, your family, your loved ones with your sin.