Saudi Arabia
Two women’s rights campaigners have been released from prison in Saudi Arabia after three years, according to rights groups. Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sada, who were arrested as part of a crackdown on female activists ordered by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, had been sentenced to five years in prison but their charges were never made public. Both women were outspoken critics of the kingdom’s male guardianship laws, which gave male family members control over whether women could get passports and travel - a restriction that has since been lifted. Rights groups, though, told the Associated Press that Badawi and al-Sada will be barred from travelling for five years as a condition of their release.
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Sudan
Sudan will hand over former officials accused of war crimes in its Darfur region to the International Criminal Court, government minister Bothaina Dinar has said. The government had already pledged to surrender ex-president Omar al-Bashir, who was overthrown by the military in 2019 after mass street protests. An estimated 300,000 people were killed in the Darfur war and millions were forced from their homes.
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China
China has released video of its Zhurong rover rolling across the surface of Mars. The video also includes footage of the robot deploying its parachute before touching down on the surface for the first time. The six-wheel vehicle landed on Mars in May tasked with exploring the planet’s vast and icy Utopia Planitia region. Beijing has in recent years pumped billions of dollars into its hugely ambitious space program.
Watch the video via The Verge here.