More than 20 human rights organizations are demanding that Facebook’s audit report on India be made public. The social media giant has reportedly suppressed the audit for more than six months. Leaked documents claim Facebook’s social media platforms were used to spread hatred and empower authoritarian countries to control political debate. The...
The US House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection spoke to former Attorney General William Barr, CNN reports. The move was prompted by a draft executive order presented to then-President Donald Trump in December of 2020. That authorized the Secretary of Defense to seize voting machines in select “battleground” states. Former...
Thirty-two global justice groups say a policy of hostility toward Beijing has “become a convenient excuse for pushing a corporate, militarist agenda.” The organizations’ letter to lawmakers focuses on the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, which passed the US Senate with bipartisan support last June. It would pour billions of dollars into Am...
The U.S. State Department on Sunday warned Americans not to travel to Russia, due to mounting tensions along the border with Ukraine. The statement added Americans could also face “harassment” and said the embassy would have “limited ability to assist U.S. citizens.” It also ordered the families of diplomats in the capital Kyiv to leave [&hel...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Justice Ayesha Malik on Monday took oath as a Supreme Court judge in Pakistan, becoming the first woman in the country’s history to reach the top court. She was sworn in by Chief Justice Gulzar Ahmed at a ceremony broadcast live by state media. Malik’s elevation to the apex court, though historic, […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has ruled out an interim agreement in the ongoing talks in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, saying the proposal has never been on its agenda. At a weekly presser in Tehran on Monday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said Tehran only seeks a “stable and reliable agreement”. [&...
France is a step closer to barring Muslim women from playing sports. In a major setback for human rights, the French Senate voted to ban conspicuous religious symbols in sports, a move primarily aimed at Muslim women. Some Muslim women play sports with a headscarf on. Right-wing politicians who voted for the ban said the […]
Indonesia’s parliament on Tuesday passed a law approving the relocation of its capital from slowly sinking Jakarta to Borneo. Borneo is a jungle-clad island 1,200 miles from Jakarta. The new capital is named “Nusantara.” Jakarta is home to more than 30 million people in its greater metro area. It has long been plagued by serious […]...
Syrian-French citizen Salah Habib is charged with supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the country’s chemical weapons program. Le Monde reported Habib is accused of “conspiracy to commit crimes against humanity, and complicity in war crimes” in a French court Sunday. Habib is married to a French woman and owns a house in Fr...
Israel’s national intelligence agency Mossad is suspected of detonating bombs and issuing threats to German and Swiss companies in the 1980s for aiding Pakistan in its nascent nuclear weapons program. Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung first reported on the findings Saturday. The newspaper wrote that Israel felt the prospect of an Islamic state...
