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The UN Human Rights chief expressed concerns over Israel’s escalation in Gaza, in a statement released on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday. Numerous airstrikes and shelling took place overnight which led to the death of hundreds of Palestinians. The Israel Defence Forces stated that they continued to strike terror targets belonging to “Palestinian Islamic Jihad [...]

A pro-Palestine activist organization filed a legal challenge on Monday against the passage of controversial laws permitting police to restrict protest near places of worship in New South Wales, Australia. The Sydney-based Palestine Action Group announced in a media release that it is filing a constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court of New South Wales against [...]

A US federal judge ordered the Trump administration Monday to explain the deportation of more than 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 despite a court order not to do so. According to CNN, US District Judge James Boasberg stated during a hearing that he wanted “the government to submit by [...]

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday arrested another Palestinian who participated in pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and announced the self-deportation to India of another student whose visa had been revoked in 2022. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian from the West Bank, was arrested by ICE [...]

US District Court Judge Shelly Dick issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday that temporarily blocked a Louisiana inmate’s execution by nitrogen gas, ruling that the largely untested method could cause the convict’s “pain and terror” in violation of the Eighth Amendment. The Louisiana State Penitentiary scheduled Jessie Hoffman’s execution by nitrogen gas for March 18, [...]

Last month, actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa were found dead in their Santa Fe home. Along with their bodies, one of the couple’s dogs, a 12-year-old Australian kelpie named Zinna, was also found dead. How they died matters, as in all cases of unexplained death. When death appears to be criminal, investigators [...]

Human beings rarely participate in world politics directly, but they do get involved as individual members of separate sovereign states. Normally, the expected costs and benefits of such indirect participation remain tangible expressions of secular considerations. Though far less decipherable and recognizable, these expressions may also include implicit promises of personal immortality. There is meaningful [...]

On February 10, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order, “Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security” (FCPA EO), directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to halt enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) until new guidelines and policies are released. The aim of this move is to [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday called on Egyptian authorities to cease their reprisal actions against prisoners at the 10th of Ramadan Prison who have embarked on a hunger strike. The detainees are protesting against their arbitrary detention and demanding an end to the harsh and inhumane conditions they are being subjected to. Mahmoud Shalaby, Egypt researcher [...]

India on Monday strongly rebuked UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk for his remarks on Kashmir and Manipur, calling them “unfounded and baseless.” The sharp response came after Turk, in his global update at the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, raised concerns over violence and displacement in Manipur [...]