The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned that North Gaza occupants are facing deteriorating survival conditions as of Tuesday, a consequence of Israeli blocking of aid efforts. OCHA highlighted that all attempts to get UN aid to North Gaza for the last 40 days were denied or impeded by Israel, [...]
Georgian demonstrators rallied in protest Sunday over parliamentary election results which saw the “Russian friendly” Georgian Dream Party win the majority vote by 53.93 percent. The election was initially disputed and deemed “illegitimate” by President Salome Zurahishvila and the opposition parties until the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) confirmed Georgian Dream’s victory on Saturday. Critics of [...]
The European Commission fined Meta, the parent company of Facebook, $797.72 million euro on Wednesday for abusing its dominant position and breaching EU antitrust rules. The EU opened these proceedings against Meta in 2021 for the anti-competitive advertising model adopted in the operation of Facebook Marketplace. Meta, formerly known as Facebook Inc., owns several social [...]
The G7 Foreign Ministers issued a statement on Tuesday condemning North Korea’s launch on October 31 of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM), which landed in the sea. The United Nations also expressed concern over the missile launch and the potential threat it poses to “regional stability.” The G7 statement condemned the missile launch “in the [...]
The UK House of Commons began its first reading on Tuesday of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill which aims to restrict the legal age to purchase tobacco each year to create the “first smoke-free generation”. The bill was proposed under former prime minister Rishi Sunak’s government, and advanced by Parliament in April 2024. The 2023 [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday that the extension of a formal agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic of China should aim to facilitate human rights and the immediate freedom of “forcibly disappeared Catholic bishops” in China. A Provisional Agreement between the Holy See and the People’s Republic regarding the appointment [...]
The UK Parliament’s Independent Expert Panel (IEP) published a report on Tuesday reprimanding former MP and assistant government whip Aaron Bell for his sexual misconduct, which took place in December 2023. The misconduct was reported to the IEP by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards in early 2024 and relates to Bell’s inappropriate and unwanted touching [...]
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 [...]
The UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced on Friday in an X (formerly Twitter) post that it charged 159 people following public disorder in the country. This comes after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned that individuals involved in the public disorder may be rapidly processed through law courts. The CPS announcement said that it [...]
The UK Supreme Court on Wednesday refused Shamima Begum’s application for permission to appeal the 2019 decision to revoke her British citizenship, ruling that the grounds of appeal “do not raise an arguable point of law”. The decision comes after Begum lost her Court of Appeal challenge in February this year, in a protracted legal challenge [...]
