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As Lebanon’s Parliament approaches a crucial juncture in drafting a new media law, 14 Lebanese and international rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, called on legislators Tuesday to ensure it protects freedom of expression. While the law initially offered opportunities to strengthen protections for journalists and media outlets, recent proposed amendments risk undermining these rights. [...]

China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) announced Monday that a preliminary investigation found Nvidia violated the country’s antitrust law after failing to comply with conditions imposed on its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies. The agency said it will conduct a further investigation before determining penalties. Nvidia completed its $6.9 billion acquisition of Mellanox in 2020. [...]

US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the US and China have reached a trade deal over social media platform TikTok and its parent company ByteDance. The president trumpeted the deal on a Truth Social post, stating: The big Trade Meeting in Europe between The United States of America, and China, has gone VERY [...]

The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said Monday that systemic corruption among the country’s political leaders is directly responsible for an escalating human rights crisis. The commission’s findings detail how programs such as “Oil for Roads” allowed high-ranking officials to allocate over $2.2 billion in recent years to companies linked to senior [...]

In a 2-1 decision, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Monday denied US President Donald Trump’s motion to pause a lower court’s preliminary injunction prohibiting him from firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. The two judges in the majority, both Biden appointees, found Cook was likely to succeed on a [...]

A UN-sponsored independent inquiry into Israel’s conduct in the Occupied Palestinian Territory reported Monday that Israel has committed the international crime of genocide amid its military operations in the Gaza Strip. A 72-page legal analysis from the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory found that Israeli forces have committed genocidal [...]

Thousands of people on Sunday protested in the Turkish capital of Ankara over a court case that could reshape the main opposition party after a year of legal battles concerning the arrest of opposition party members. On Monday the court will decide whether it will invalidate the 2023 congress of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) [...]

US President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US military carried out another targeted strike on a Venezuelan boat allegedly transporting drugs, killing three men aboard. The action comes two weeks after an initial strike on a Venezuelan speedboat allegedly engaged in drug-trafficking activity. Trump defended the strikes as a step necessary to curb narcotics [...]

The South Korean government launched an investigation Monday into potential human rights violations following the detention of over 300 of its citizens during a US immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Georgia. On September 4, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), supported by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), conducted a raid at the $4.3 [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday spurred global leaders to reinforce the global ban on cluster munitions, and urged states still using or producing these weapons to promptly join the treaty. The statement came following the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) release of its annual report. Mark Hiznay, associate crisis, conflict and arms director at HRW, [...]