The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office announced Wednesday it would allow food, water, and medicine from Egypt for civilians living in the Gaza Strip. The office emphasized the government will stop any attempt to bring supplies to Hamas, in light of the rocket attack by Hamas on October 7 which killed more than 100 Israeli citizens. [...]

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal unanimously dismissed two appeals from the Hong Kong Housing Authority (HA) Tuesday, which sought to uphold the constitutionality of excluding same-sex couples from enjoying the Public Rental Housing (PRH) policy and Home Ownership Scheme (HOS) as married couples. Two applicants lodged a judicial review in 2020 against the HA’s [...]

The Brazil-penned UN Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict was vetoed Wednesday by the US. The resolution advocated a temporary ceasefire to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians who are caught in the midst of the war. Despite the resolution explicitly condemning Hamas’s October 7 attacks on [...]

The UN human rights experts called upon Pakistan on Tuesday to discontinue their planned deportation of a large number of Afghans from the country. The pressure from human rights groups has increased since Pakistan Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti announced the deportation plan on October 3. The plan could result in the deportation of 1.4 million [...]

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) submitted a formal chargesheet against six individuals furnished a report regarding one ‘child in conflict with the law’ on Tuesday in connection with a video of two tribal women being paraded naked in India’s Manipur state. Following the dissemination of the incident and the related footage across social media platforms [...]

Chinese officials arrested former chairman of the Bank of China Liu Liange on corruption charges, Chinese official state news agency Xinhua reported on Monday. The Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) filed the charges against Liu, who is under suspicion of bribery and providing illegal loans, for his role as leader of the state-owned bank from 2019 [...]

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin directed Syngenta Seeds, a company under the umbrella of China’s state-owned chemical giant ChemChina, to divest its 160 acres of agricultural land within the state on Tuesday. This decision stems from the state’s Act 636 of 2023, named To Amend the Law Concerning Ownership and Possession of Real Property, which [...]

A blast at the Anglican Church-run Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City’s southern Al Zaytoun neighborhood Tuesday evening local time killed hundreds of people, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. Gaza’s health ministry initially placed the death toll at 500 and blamed an Israel Defense Force (IDF) airstrike. However, on Wednesday, the IDF released surveillance [...]

Kansas Proud Boys leader William Chrestman pleaded guilty Monday to obstruction of an official proceeding and threatening a federal officer during the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol Building. Chrestman’s plea came as part of a plea deal with the Department of Justice (DOJ) also released Monday. The plea deal, as approved by [...]

The India Supreme Court on Tuesday held that there is no fundamental right for same-sex couples to get married. A five-judge bench of the court, headed by the Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, ruled against recognizing same-sex marriages, as well as civil unions for non-heterosexual couples in India in a 3-2 verdict. Earlier [...]