On Wednesday, human rights advocates condemned Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for sending a bus of migrants from the U.S.-Mexico border to the nation’s capital. The bus arrived outside an office building housing Fox News, which provided glowing coverage of the bus’ arrival. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior policy counsel at the American Immig...
On Tuesday, U.S. President Joe Biden unveiled a new plan allowing homegrown biofuels to mitigate the adverse effect of rising oil prices due to Russia’s war on Ukraine. The Biden administration aims to encourage the development of homegrown biofuels to provide an affordable alternative in the short term. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will...
The U.S. State Department on Monday ordered non-emergency U.S. government workers and their family members to leave Shanghai. The order comes in response to rising COVID-19 cases and restrictions related to the Chinese government’s response. China and Hong Kong have a zero-tolerance approach to COVID-19, which severely impacts travel and acces...
The U.S. Defense Department will meet with its eight prime defense contractors to ensure “long-term readiness” to meet Ukraine’s weapons needs. The meeting is part of an ongoing dialogue with industry partners “to ensure a resilient industrial base,” an official told Anadolu Agency. They will discuss industry proposals “to accelerate productio...
On Wednesday, Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov threatened to deploy nuclear weapons in and around the Baltic Sea region if Finland and Sweden join NATO. But Bloomberg reports that Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declined to comment on that possibility. Foreign Minister Ryabkov also said U.S. and NATO arms shipments in Ukraine will be ...
On Friday, an Indian Central Bureau of Investigation court directed former Amnesty International India chief Aakar Patel not to leave the country without its permission. The Indian government has sanctioned the CBI’s prosecution of Amnesty International. Under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, an association cannot be prosecuted withou...
On Tuesday, Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir dispute with India is “indispensable.” Sharif thanked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for congratulations on his selection as premier. He said Islamabad desires “peaceful” and “cooperative” ties with New Delhi. The state of Jammu an...
On Thursday, the Danish leader of a far-right party burned a copy of the Quran in a heavily-populated Muslim area in Sweden. According to media reports, Rasmus Paludan, head of the Stram Kurs party, placed the Muslim holy book down in a public square in the city of Linkoping and burned it. He was accompanied […]
Israeli soldiers stormed Al-Aqsa mosque’s courtyards today, injuring more than 150 Palestinians during Fajr prayer. The Middle East Monitor reports that Israeli police fired a barrage of stun grenades, as they beat and shot Palestinians with rubber bullets, and used tear gas. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that the Israeli police pursued wo...
Hundreds of Indian police officers demolished Muslim homes with bulldozers in a small Muslim neighbourhood in Khargone city, the BBC reported. Several Muslim homes and shops are being torn down in Madhya Pradesh. Aakar Patel, chair of Amnesty International India’s board, said such punitive demolition could amount to collective punishment in vi...
