French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced Wednesday that French security forces detained a far-right extremist in eastern France on suspicion of organizing attacks during the Paris Olympics, in a statement made on X (formerly Twitter). The accused far-right extremist was the administrator of the “French Aryan division” group on the Telegram phone application, where he [...]

Police in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have withdrawn attempted suicide and consuming alcohol charges against Irish woman Tori Towey, a lawyer assisting her case said on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday. Towey, an Irish flight attendant with Emirates Airlines since April 2023, was briefly imprisoned and had her passport confiscated and destroyed, according to the [...]

Iranian authorities arrested outspoken lawyer Mohsen Borhani for publicly criticizing how the government handled the 2022 protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, Iranian media reported Sunday. Mahsa Amini was a 22-year-old whose arrest in 2022 by Iranian police for allegedly failing to wear her required hijab correctly and subsequent death in custody prompted massive [...]

Turkish police on Sunday raided the Pride Parade in Istanbul, detaining at least 15 people for participating in a banned LGBTQ+ rally, according to accounts from participants and witness testimony to Reuters. Turkish police blocked metro stations and obstructed traffic on the primary roads in central European Istanbul. In response, the demonstrators held their rally on [...]

Australia’s e-safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant announced in a press release Wednesday that Australia has dropped its legal battle against Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) to have graphic footage of a church stabbing in Sydney removed from the social media platform. Grant stated “I have decided to discontinue the proceedings in the Federal Court against [...]

The Australian Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus introduced the Criminal Code Amendment (Deepfake Sexual Material) Bill 2024 to the parliament on Wednesday. Dreyfus and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese both contended that non-consensual deepfake sexually explicit materials are a “damaging and deeply distressing form of abuse” and therefore should attach serious criminal penalties. The bill has been [...]

A Lamia Appeals Justices’ Council in Greece sentenced the founder of Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn political party Nikos Michaloliakos to prison in overturning a decision to release him on parole, according to local news outlet Athens News Agency. Michaloliakos was previously sentenced to 13 years and six months in prison before he was released on [...]

New Zealand’s Indigenous protesters on Thursday caused severe traffic delays in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city. The opposition party Te Pati Māori and Indigenous activist groups initiated the protest against the government’s proposed budget, allegedly compromising the country’s ability to protect Indigenous rights. The government announced their new budget plan on Thursday, making significant cuts [...]

Tens of thousands of protestors gathered on Sunday in the heart of Armenia’s capital to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in response to Armenia’s decision to surrender control of several border villages to Azerbaijan. The protests were organized by the Movement for Tavush, and led by Bagrat Archbishop Galstanyan, the Armenian Apostolic [...]

China surrounded Taiwan with navy vessels and aircraft on Thursday as part of two days of military procedures, according to state media. The area surrounded included the Taiwan Strait, the north, south and east of Taiwan Island, as well as areas around the islands of Kinmen, Matsu, Wuqiu, and Dongyin. Beijing stated that the military action [...]