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  • Macklemore cancels Dubai show to protest UAE role in Sudan

    Neither the UAE's foreign ministry nor its global media office immediately responded to Reuters' request

  • Russian Missiles Kill at Least 23 in Ukraine, Wound Over 100

    , offices, stores and residential buildings in Vinnytsia, a city 268 kilometers (167 miles) southwest The strike on Vinnytsia targeted an officers’ residence, where preparations by Ukrainian armed forces Among the buildings damaged in the strike was the House of Officers, a Soviet-era concert hall. Before the missiles hit Vinnytsia, the president’s office reported the deaths of five civilians and the information about transactions made or planned by Russian individuals or legal entities participating in foreign

  • Qatar Punishes Criticism of its Abuse of World Cup Workers

    , I was charged by a Qatari state security prosecutor with leaking defence secrets, conspiring with foreign I was stopped at Amman airport in Jordan, my passport was confiscated and was told by intelligence officers I am not politically connected, I hold no office, and I possess neither the wealth nor the power of Fifa

  • Allegations of shackled students and gang rape inside China's detention camps

    However, Sidik said the female police officer described how her male colleagues used to boast about it The Chinese government has claimed the camps are " vocational training centers ," part of an official During one of these sessions, she claims police officers kicked and beat her until she passed out. Denials and shame In a statement to CNN, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not address the can distinguish right from wrong, not be deceived and misled by false news and biased reports," the Foreign

  • ICC opens 'war crimes' investigation in West Bank and Gaza

    Israel rejected Ms Bensouda's decision, while Palestinian officials praised it. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Ms Bensouda explained that her office was obliged to act "where a Behind the scenes though, concerned officials are working to offset, delay and limit its impact. roll out a plan - understood to be no-expense-spared - to minimise the chance of any future arrest of officers (Photo Credit: Reuters) Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said: "The crimes committed

  • Will DR Congo-Rwanda deal bring peace?

    US President Donald Trump holds up a document after DRC's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner, The agreement, signed by the Congolese and Rwandan foreign ministers in Washington on Friday, is an attempt At the signing, Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe called it a “turning point”, while his But this has raised fears among critics that the US’s main interest in the agreement is to further foreign laureate Denis Mukwege called the agreement a “scandalous surrender of sovereignty” that validated foreign

  • In a first, Burmese military admits that soldiers killed Rohingya found in mass grave

    crisis was labeled a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing” by the United Nations' top human rights official Matthew Smith, chief executive officer of the human rights group Fortify Rights, said it was noteworthy In Wednesday's military statement, the office of the Burmese military's commander in chief said that Last year, a group of foreign journalists was flown into the country to see a mass grave in northern

  • How Iranians Protest: The Green Movement

    Public indignation increased when official results revealed opposition candidates were underperforming Movement emphasized that Iran’s future must be determined by Iranians inside the country, arguing that foreign

  • Genocide Warning: The Solomon Islands

    The Solomon Islands’ government requested foreign assistance to quell the violence. Soldiers and police officers from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea have been deployed

  • Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul released from prison

    Calls for her release by her family had been repeatedly championed by human rights groups and foreign December last year she was sentenced to five years and eight months behind bars and accused of pushing a foreign A damning UN report found that there was “credible evidence” that Prince Mohammed and other senior officials Senior Saudi officials at the time feared that public campaigns by prominent women had created the impression

  • U.N. Finds Human Rights Failures in Russia

    including torture, allegations of rape and sexual violence, and threats of sexual abuse by law enforcement officers None of those cases had been officially investigated, she said. The Russian Justice Ministry’s registry of “foreign agents” contained 649 organizations and individuals

  • Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in Arctic Circle jail

    France said he had paid with his life for resisting Russian "oppression", while Norway's foreign minister UK Foreign Minister David Cameron said "no-one should be in any doubt about the dreadful nature of Putin's

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