Non-governmental organizations championed by Human Rights Watch released a letter on Monday addressed to the United Nations-mandated Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, urging that the Commission look into the killing of Lebanese civilians, including the journalist Issam Abdallah, by the Israeli military in October 2023. Abdallah was [...]
Police in Barcelona, Spain failed to arrest Catalonia’s former leader Carles Puigdemont on Thursday after Puigdemont appeared before a crowd at a separatist rally to deliver a speech. Puigdemont marched toward the Catalonian Parliament while surrounded by his supporters and vanished after the speech. It is unknown how he entered Spain or vanished after the [...]
Military vehicles from Boliva breached the presidential palace on Wednesday in an apparent coup attempt. This came after many military vehicles were seen in Plaza Murillo where the government houses and presidential palace are located. This mobilization was met with immediate backlash from the government as the country’s president, Luis Arce, denounced the troops’ movements [...]
Amnesty International called on Israel to respect the human rights of Palestinian refugees in a press release issued on Wednesday. The statement highlighted the mass forced displacement and destruction of civilian properties and infrastructure due to both the war in Gaza and Israel’s policies toward Palestinians. Amnesty International stated that Palestinians are facing forced displacement [...]
Georgia police arrested 6 people on Thursday as part of protests over the country’s proposed “Foreign Agents” Bill. There have been many reports of police violence against protesters in Georgia, with Human Rights Watch (HRW) calling the violence concerning after speaking to several protesters who were attacked. The Georgian Special Investigation Service (SIS) is currently [...]
A 16-year-old was charged with terrorism on Thursday over a stabbing that took place on Monday at a church in Sydney, Australia. The boy, who was known to the police entered the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley during a live-streamed event and attacked the bishop and several worshipers. According to police, religious extremism [...]
The EU Parliament approved legislation on Wednesday regarding the rights and treatment of migrants and asylum seekers within the bloc. The legislation furthers the Migration and Asylum Pact, which seeks to expand the current rights that these groups have while solidifying the procedure around their treatment across the EU. The legislation includes a broad range [...]
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) released a statement detailing the arrest of three additional men, who the FSB claim were responsible for the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia on March 22. Over a dozen others have already been arrested in connection with the attack, which resulted in the death [...]
The Inspector General of Intelligence Services in New Zealand, Brendan Horsley, revealed on Thursday that a foreign intelligence agency has been operating inside the Government Communications and Security Bureau (GCSB). Since 2013, the foreign agency has used the GCSB’s ability to host signals to “support action against military targets,” according to the report. The report [...]
The Czech Republic’s upper house passed a new law to increase gun control within the nation months following an increase in gun violence, including the worst mass shooting in the nation’s history where a lone gunman killed 22 people at Charles University in Prague in December 2023. Debate on this legislation was already underway before [...]
