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An Amnesty International report released Tuesday outlined how a UAE-affiliated trophy hunting company is involved in the forced evictions of Massai people in Tanzania. The report documents that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the UAE’s prime minister and a member of the ruling royal family, is linked to trophy hunting company Otterlo Business Corporation [...]

US and Australian officials met to reaffirm a peaceful alliance within the Indo-Pacific region as part of the thirty-fourth Australia-U.S. Ministerial (AUSMIN) Consultations on Tuesday in Annapolis, Maryland.  The Indo-Pacific region is comprised of twenty-three countries, including Australia, China, India, and Cambodia. The officials, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, [...]

In a landmark development, the American Bar Association (ABA) has adopted a resolution urging the United States and the United Nations to investigate human rights violations in Tibet. Resolution 502, passed on August 5 at the ABA’s Annual General Meeting in Chicago, marks the first time the organization has taken a stance on the issue [...]

The Madras High Court of India reserved orders on Tuesday over a challenge to the preventive detention of a content creator on the YouTube platform by the Government of Tamil Nadu after hearing arguments from both sides. The court questioned the Government of Tamil Nadu’s application of the Goondas Act, a preventative detention statute, against [...]

German Justice Minister Marco Buschmann told a local magazine on Tuesday that he advises Germans against travelling to Russia, stressing that no one has been safe in Russia for a long time. Buschmann’s comments came in the wake of a recent prisoner exchange with Russia, in which Germany played a pivotal role. The complex negotiations [...]

A Tunisia court sentenced the leader of the opposition Free Destourian Party (PDL) Abir Moussi to two years in prison on Monday over criticizm of Tunisia’s High Independent Authority for Elections. She was prosecuted under Decree-Law No. 2022-54 and accused of crimes such as attacks to change government form. Moussi was previously detained by Tunisian [...]

Bangladesh Government authorities announced Tuesday that Muhammad Yunus, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize laureate renowned for his work in microcredit markets and a well-known critic and political opponent of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, will lead the country’s interim government. This significant development comes in the wake of Hasina’s resignation and subsequent flight from the country [...]

A Pakistani national with ties to Iran was federally charged in New York for a murder-for-hire plan targeting US government officials, according to a Tuesday announcement from the US Department of Justice. The accused, Asif Merchant, contacted a confidential source under the pretense of selling clothing in the US, later paying the source $5,000 to [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported on Tuesday that Chad’s military caused the deaths of several detainees in transit and within the country’s Koro Toro prison. The detainees were arrested during the October 2022 protests. They were said to have been denied basic supplies, such as food, water and medical care, during transportation from Chad’s capital, [...]

A New Zealand helicopter pilot, Glen Malcolm Conning, was shot and killed on Monday by separatist fighters shortly after his helicopter landed in the remote village of Alama, located in the Papua province of Indonesia.  Conning, 50, was working for the Indonesian aviation company PT Intan Angkasa Air Service. The attackers released four Indigenous Papuan [...]