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The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that Vice Media (Vice) must hand over information its journalist Ben Makuch gathered from suspected terrorist and Canadian citizen Farah Mohamed Shirdon, who left Canada allegedly to join the Islamic State (IS) group. The case concerned three articles written by Makuch in 2014 based on conversations he had with Shirdon detailing [...]

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George Higginbotham, a former Senior Congressional Affairs Specialist in the US Department of Justice (DOJ), pleaded guilty Friday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia to conspiracy to make false statements to a bank. The former DOJ employee admitted to facilitating the transfer of millions of dollars meant as payments to lobbyists who [...]

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The UN special rapporteur on violence against women, Dubravka Šimonović, said Thursday that she is “gravely concerned” about the number of cases related to sexual violence against women and girls in Nepal. She cited the rape and murder of 13-year-old Nirmala Panta as an example of a case that was “referred to the police or [...]

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Leaders of the Mexican, Canadian and US governments signed a new trade deal on Friday that affects more than $1.2 trillion in regional commerce and is set to replace the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). From the G20 Summit in Argentina, US President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Mexican President Enrique [...]

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The French National Assembly voted on Friday in favor of a ban on smacking children, bringing them in line with other European countries. The change in their civil code was approved 51-1 and will now go to the Senate for approval. The ban states: parental authority must be imposed without physical, verbal, or psychological violence. [...]

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A Turkish court ruled Friday that the former leader of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition party will remain in prison, despite calls from top EU officials for the politician’s swift release. Selahattin Demirtaş is the former co-chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and one of Turkey’s best-known politicians. He was detained two years ago on terrorism-related [...]

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An Argentinian judge on Wednesday initiated the investigation process into Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman while he is in Argentina for the G-20 Summit. Federal Judge Ariel Lijo agreed to the Human Rights Watch’s request to determine whether Yemeni and Saudi legal authorities were investigating the prince for crimes against humanity, including his [...]

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Three Philippines police officers were convicted of murdering an innocent teenager, Kian Delos Santos, during a patrol in the Philippines’s ongoing war on drugs, and were sentenced to 40 years in prison each. They will not be eligible for parole. These are the first such convictions since sitting President Rodrigo Duterte, who vowed that he [...]

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Australian Federal Police are investigating several SAS (Australian Special Forces) soldiers for allegedly committing war crimes in Afghanistan during Australia’s 12-year military involvement in the conflict. SAS insiders told the Sydney Morning Herald that “horrendous things” had occurred in Afghanistan. “Some just disgraceful things happened,” said the insider. “It was pretty much kept under wraps.” [...]

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The US Senate voted 63-to-37 Wednesday on a procedural step to approve Senate Joint Resolution 16 to suspend US support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Senate Joint Resolution 16 says that Congress, pursuant to both the 1973 War Powers Resolution and section 1013 of the Department of State Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1984 and 1985, [...]

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