The government of the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe extended a territory-wide curfew on Saturday, applying from 7 PM through 6 AM, after a strike by workers at the EDF-PEI power plant shut down the island’s electricity supply on Friday. The power plant at Pointe Jarry, is run by the Insular Electricity Production unit of [...]
A Louisiana judge issued a temporary restraining order Friday barring state police from further sweeps of the homeless in New Orleans. The order requires the Louisiana State Police, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development to not destroy or dispose of unhoused people’s property without judicial process. [...]
Deputy executive director of UNICEF Ted Chaiban on Friday called for more international attention to the “forgotten crisis” in Sudan amid the country’s civil war. In a joint statement with UNHCR assistant high commissioner for operations Raouf Mazou, Chaiban noted the massive displacement and damage caused by the war being fought between the Sudanese Armed [...]
The UK Home Office denied Mandla Mandela’s visa to enter the UK on Friday, stating that his application had been rejected because of his stance on the Israel-Palestine war and alleged “support for Hamas.” Mandela, grandson of late anti-apartheid leader and former president Nelson Mandela, has been a speaker at many pro-Palestine events in the [...]
Netherlands Prime Minister Dick Schoof announced on Friday his plan to limit temporary asylum permits to a maximum of three years and to introduce new border controls next month. Schoof said the cabinet had reached an agreement to alleviate the “asylum crisis” after the Council of Ministers meeting. The package of asylum measures includes the [...]
Commonwealth leaders from 56 countries announced on Saturday that they will discuss demands for reparations from the UK for its role in the transatlantic slave trade. The schedule for the meeting was released during the biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa, stating that the leaders will “play an active role in bringing [...]
The national police force of Bolivia announced that they had arrested 44 protesters on Friday, after demonstrators set up more than 20 roadblocks on highways across the country to prevent the arrest of former president Evo Morales. The Bolivian police accused protestors of committing various crimes, including attacks on transportation security, usurpation of functions, criminal [...]
North Korea announced on Friday that sending troops to support Russia in the war in Ukraine would align with international law, though it held back from confirming any actual deployments. The statement from North Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister Kim Jong Gyu to the state news agency statement comes in the wake of claims that Ukraine, [...]
Cambodian journalist Mech Dara was released on bail Thursday, a day after he issued a public apology on a state media outlet. Authorities alleged that Dara’s social media posts could “disturb social security” by inciting unrest, contravening articles 494 and 495 of Cambodia’s Criminal Code. Days after his detention, Dara appeared in a video broadcast [...]
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday that “the darkest moment of the Gaza conflict is unfolding in the north of the Strip.” A year after the October 7 attack that marked the beginning of the current Gaza conflict, the international community has been unable to impose a ceasefire in [...]
