The international community must act together to overcome the crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday. Erdogan spoke during a joint news conference alongside his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic ALEXANDER VOO CHICH, referring to recent moves toward separatism in Bosnia. Erdogan said all parti...
A London-based law firm has filed an application with British police seeking the arrest of India’s army chief and a senior Indian government official over their alleged roles in war crimes in Kashmir. Law firm Stoke White says it has submitted evidence including 2,000 testimonies taken between 2020 and 2021 to law enforcement in the [&he...
U.S. President Joe Biden urged Americans to work to safeguard voting rights while commemorating the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Monday. Biden said it’s not enough to just praise King on the federal holiday honoring him. He added, Americans must commit “to his unfinished work to deliver jobs and justice, to […]
Israeli police were in a standoff Monday with a Palestinian man who carried a gas canister onto the roof of his home in Jerusalem. The man’s family has been facing the threat of eviction since 2017 in the flashpoint Sheikh Jarrah area of Israel-annexed east Jerusalem. Israeli media reported Mohammed Salhiya had threatened to set […]...
French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour has been fined 10,000 euros for provoking racial hatred. Zemmour was convicted Monday by the Paris Criminal Court after he described migrants as “thieves,” “murderers” and “rapists” on a French news channel in September 2020. This is the third time Zemmour has been convicted of a hate offense. Despite...
The “largest mass assembly of poor people and low-wage workers in this nation’s history” will converge on Washington, D.C. on June 18. The event is being organized by the Poor People’s Campaign and its partners. That includes members and allies of organized labor, the civil rights movement, and religious communities from across the U.S. The [...
A German court on Thursday sentenced a former Syrian colonel to life in prison for crimes against humanity.The “historic” verdict marked the end of the first global trial over state-sponsored torture in Syria. Anwar Raslan was found guilty of overseeing the murder of 27 people at the Al-Khatib detention center in Damascus in 2011 and […...
In international news, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Dr. Fernand de Varennes took to Twitter over the social medial harassment of Indian Muslim women. Varennes asked that the culprits be prosecuted. His remarks came amid recent shock and furor over the “Bulli Bai” App. It targets prominent Muslim women by putting up their images ...
President Joe Biden on Thursday said he is not certain his voting rights agenda will pass the Senate after he failed to secure sufficient backing from his own Democratic party. Immediately after a last-ditch meeting to persuade party members, Biden said he hoped “we can get this done but I’m not sure.” “It’s about election [&...
The U.S. Justice Department said yesterday it has charged the leaders of the far-right Oath Keepers militia and 10 others for their involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill attack. Stewart Rhodes, the group’s leader and founder, was arrested Thursday in Little Elm, Texas. A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., indicted Rhodes and 10 [&h...
