US issues warning over new Zambian cyber-security law
The US says a new Zambian law is more intrusive than equivalents in many other countries.
Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut – Euronews.com
- Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut Euronews.com
- Photojournalist Fatma Hassona Killed in Gaza Time Magazine
- Palestinian Photojournalist & Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike Deadline
- Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk: Palestinian star of Cannes documentary killed in Israeli missile strike The Independent
- Gaza photojournalist Fatima Hassouna killed in a strike with 10 of her relatives Le Monde.fr
El Salvador’s president, Trump’s new deportation partner, is a pro-Israel Palestinian – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Syria hopes tourists will return to Palmyra, a World Heritage Site ravaged by war – NPR
Officials demand answers as crews work to restore power after another Puerto Rico blackout – AP News
Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US
Democrats press Trump administration to follow supreme court order to bring back Kilmar Ábrego García
Cory Booker plans to travel to El Salvador, a source familiar with the New Jersey senator’s itinerary said, as Democrats seek to pressure the Trump administration to return a wrongly deported Maryland resident.
Booker’s trip to the Central American country would come after the Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen traveled there this week to meet with his constituent Kilmar Ábrego García, a Salvadorian national deported last month in what the Trump administration acknowledged was an “administrative error”. Despite a supreme court ruling saying his administration must “facilitate” Ábrego García’s return, Trump has refused to take steps to do so, and El Salvador’s government on Wednesday denied Van Hollen a meeting with the deportee.
Continue reading...Trump administration threatens Harvard with foreign student ban
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused the institution of "threatening national security".
IRS reportedly planning to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status
Probably illegal move against US’s richest university is latest in Trump’s attack on independence of higher education
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is reportedly planning to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status in what would be a probably illegal move amid Donald Trump’s concerted attack on the independence of US institutions of higher education.
Trump on Tuesday called for Harvard, the US’s oldest and wealthiest university and one of the most prestigious in the world, to lose its tax-exempt status, CNN first reported.
Continue reading...Joshua Craze, Sudan’s World War — Sidecar – New Left Review
- Joshua Craze, Sudan’s World War — Sidecar New Left Review
- As Famine Rages in Sudan, U.S. Aid Remains Scarce The New York Times
- The Guardian view on Sudan’s third year of conflict: a war against civilians | Editorial The Guardian
- Sudan: No respite for civilians amid unrelenting war and aid access barriers UN News
- Sudan rebels declare rival government on anniversary of brutal 2-year war with army CNN
Russia’s Putin, Qatar’s emir discuss Syria and Gaza at Moscow talks
Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria's new leader, would like better relations with Moscow, Qatar said.
Zelensky urges US and Europe to pressure Russia to end war
A Kremlin spokesman dismissed the talks between Ukraine, Europe and the US, which took place in Paris.
Zelensky urges US and Europe to pressure Russia to end war
A Kremlin spokesman dismissed the talks between Ukraine, Europe and the US, which took place in Paris.
Israel’s water war
Pinch Point looks at how Israel uses water as a strategic aim and a weapon of war.
Could Trump invoke Insurrection Act – and what powers would that give him?
Experts debunk claims of Trump declaring martial law, citing legal boundaries and confusion with the Insurrection Act.
Kilmar Ábrego García’s wife rejects Trump officials’ depictions of him as ‘violent’
Jennifer Vasquez Sura criticizes DHS’s attempt to smear her wrongly deported husband over 2021 civil protective order
The wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man unlawfully deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador, has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s attempt to smear his character, saying a temporary restraining order against him was “out of caution” and that “he is a loving partner and father” who is being denied justice.
Jennifer Vasquez Sura said she “acted out of caution after a disagreement with Kilmar” when she got the civil protective order in 2021, according to a statement emailed to the Baltimore Sun.
Continue reading...Russia warns Germany against giving Ukraine Taurus missiles – DW
- Russia warns Germany against giving Ukraine Taurus missiles DW
- Merz signals Ukraine could use Taurus missiles to target Crimea, Kerch Bridge The Kyiv Independent
- Rheinmetall: Shell Output at New Lower Saxony Factory Will Almost Double Corporate Plan Kyiv Post
- Merz’s Ukraine Missile Plan Exposes Rifts in Germany’s Coalition Bloomberg
- Day after Russia kills civilians in Sumy, Kremlin claims deliveries of Taurus missiles will lead to escalation The Kyiv Independent
JK Rowling celebrates with a cigar after UK Supreme Court rules trans women are not legally women – Hindustan Times
- JK Rowling celebrates with a cigar after UK Supreme Court rules trans women are not legally women Hindustan Times
- Supreme Court gender ruling offers clarity after years of ambiguity BBC
- Rapists can no longer claim to be women following Supreme Court ruling The Telegraph
- Trans women aren’t legally women: What the UK Supreme Court ruling means Al Jazeera
- Transgender women in Britain fear ruling could place toilets, sports and hospitals off limits AP News
Russia’s Supreme Court suspends ban on Afghanistan’s Taliban
The group that seized power in Afghanistan in 2021 is removed from Russia's list of banned 'terror' organisations.
Two years into Sudan’s war, where is its civil society?
Civil activists negotiate with warring sides to work but face harassment, arrests, and accusations of bias.
Macron announces joint commission with Haiti amid calls for reparations
France imposed harsh ‘ransom’ after revolution that campaigners say stunted Caribbean country’s development
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has announced a joint commission with Haiti to examine the countries’ shared past as Haitian campaigners demand a reimbursement of billions of dollars worth of “ransom” paid to France.
Macron announced his intention to create the commission as campaigners renewed calls for reparations on the bicentenary of an agreement to pay 150m francs to France in 1825 to compensate slave-owning colonists after the Haitian Revolution.
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