How does Israel treat thousands of Palestinians in its prisons?
Accusations of widespread abuses and torture.
Detroit changes rules for police use of facial recognition after wrongful arrest of Black man
City to pay $300,000 to Robert Williams, whose driver’s license was incorrectly flagged in shoplifting investigation
The city of Detroit has agreed to pay $300,000 to a Black man who was wrongly arrested for shoplifting, and to change how police use facial-recognition technology to solve crimes after the software identified him as a suspect.
The conditions are part of a lawsuit settlement with Robert Williams. His driver’s license photo was incorrectly flagged by facial-recognition software as a likely match to a man seen on security video at a Shinola watch store in 2018.
Continue reading...Tax hike protests in Kenya killed at least 39 people, says rights watchdog
Toll is almost double the figure previously disclosed by the government as activists gear up for new round of protests.
U.S. Bases in Europe Go to Higher State of Alert – Department of Defense
- U.S. Bases in Europe Go to Higher State of Alert Department of Defense
- US military heightens the security alert at European bases due to a combination of threats The Associated Press
- Alert Level Raised at U.S. Bases in Europe Over Russian Threats The New York Times
- US bases across Europe bracing for possible terror attack Voice of America - VOA News
- Several US military bases in Europe put on heightened state of alert, US officials say ABC News
How to get around DC amid significant road, sidewalk closures for NATO Summit – WTOP
- How to get around DC amid significant road, sidewalk closures for NATO Summit WTOP
- 2024 NATO Summit NATO HQ
- What NATO's History Reveals About Its Future, At 75 Foreign Policy
- NATO's narrow window of opportunity for an effective Southern Strategy Middle East Institute
- Nato's Washington summit will need to tackle Russian sabotage and myriad security threats The Conversation
Met apologises for spying on police justice campaigners in 1980s and 1990s
Force admits use of undercover officers was ‘indefensible’ and had ‘corrosive effect’ on public trust, inquiry hears
The Metropolitan police have issued a series of wide-ranging apologies to campaigners for the “indefensible” use of undercover officers to spy on them, a public inquiry has heard.
The Met admitted to “serious failings and wrongdoing” by some of the undercover officers, conceding there was a “general failure” by senior managers to supervise them properly.
Continue reading...PM Benjamin Netanyahu says IDF is close to destroying Hamas’s army – The Jerusalem Post
- PM Benjamin Netanyahu says IDF is close to destroying Hamas's army The Jerusalem Post
- Israel-Hamas War Day 269 | Netanyahu Says Israel Close to 'Eliminating Hamas' Military' - Israel News Haaretz
- 4 Scenarios for Next Phase in Gaza War, With 'Intense' Fighting Set to End The New York Times
- Netanyahu says Israel advancing to 'end of the stage of eliminating' Hamas' army in Gaza Yahoo! Voices
- Netanyahu asserts Israel nearing elimination of 'Hamas's terror army' The Times of Israel
Adoptee stolen at birth sues Chile over thousands of dictatorship-era thefts
Jimmy Lippert Thyden González alleges country engaged in plan to steal babies from perceived enemies in 70s and 80s
A Chilean-American man raised in the United States has filed a criminal complaint against the Chilean state, alleging that it engaged in a systematic plan to steal thousands of babies from perceived enemies of the state in the 1970s and 1980s.
The case filed by Jimmy Lippert Thyden González, 43, aims to advance the task of Chilean prosecutors and human rights groups working on accountability for crimes committed under Gen Augusto Pinochet.
Continue reading...Mistrial declared in Karen Read’s case over killing of her Boston police boyfriend
Prosecutors say Read ran over John O’Keefe with an SUV and fled scene in 2022, but jury was unable to reach verdict
A mistrial has been declared in the Karen Read case after a jury was unable to reach a verdict on charges that she murdered her boyfriend, a Boston police officer.
The local district attorney’s office quickly issued a statement saying that prosecutors intend to retry the case, which jurors first began hearing in late April.
Continue reading...Risk of serious injury as strangling during sex becomes normalised among young Australians
Sexual violence experts concerned about health risks and lack of consent after survey shows almost 60% of respondents under 35 had been choked at least once
Strangling a partner during sex is widely perceived as normal especially among young people, with more than half of adults aged 35 and under reporting they have been strangled, many of them unaware of potentially serious health consequences.
It is a finding that has sexual violence experts so concerned that they launched the “Breathless” campaign and website on Tuesday to highlight that strangulation – often referred to as “choking” – is unsafe, and often occurs with no or inadequate communication or consent.
Continue reading...‘Proud to go to prison’: Former Trump aide Steve Bannon begins sentence
Former Trump campaign adviser and White House chief strategist Steve Bannon reported to federal prison.
Judi Dench and Siân Phillips become first female members of Garrick Club
Exclusive: Veteran actors fast-tracked into venerable London club in wake of men-only rule being jettisoned after 193 years
The Garrick Club has named Judi Dench and Siân Phillips as distinguished members, making them the first women to be allowed to join the club in its 193-year history.
The actors were given fast-tracked membership during the club’s annual general meeting on Monday evening. Until now, no woman had been allowed into the Garrick unless invited in and accompanied around the building by a man.
Continue reading...Starmer says far-right win in France would not stop Labour trying to forge better EU deal
Labour leader hopes to gain closer economic ties with EU if he becomes PM and says he would work with ‘whoever’
Keir Starmer has said that a government in France led by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) party would not hamper a Labour government’s intention to negotiate a better EU deal.
The RN made historic gains in the first round of France’s snap elections on Sunday with 33% of the vote, bringing the possibility the party could emerge as the largest in the final round of voting next Sunday.
Continue reading...Concerns as India replaces colonial-era laws with new criminal codes
Government says overhaul will make country more just, but opposition fears it would throw justice system into disarray.
US-Mexico border crossings fall to three-year low after Biden’s executive order
About 84,000 people crossed into the US in June, the lowest monthly total since Biden assumed office in January 2021
Undocumented crossings at the US’s southern border have fallen to a three-year low, marking the lowest in Joe Biden’s presidency just a short time after he signed a controversial executive order limiting immigration there in June.
The latest data from the federal Customs and Border Patrol obtained by CBS News is the most recent since Biden signed his executive order – and comes as the president is accused of failing to address concerns about the amount of people crossing into the US without permission.
Continue reading...Justice’s dissent: ‘The President is now a king above the law’
The three liberals, led by Sonia Sotomayor, painted a dark picture of absolutist power.
Sotomayor says immunity ruling makes a president ‘king above the law’
Stark dissent from liberal supreme court justice says decision will let presidents commit crimes with impunity
In a stark dissent from the conservative-majority US supreme court’s opinion granting Donald Trump some immunity from criminal prosecution, the liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor said the decision was a “mockery” that makes a president a “king above the law”.
The court ruled Monday that Trump cannot be prosecuted for “official acts” he took while president, setting up tests for which of the federal criminal charges over his attempt to subvert the 2020 election are considered official and sending the case back to a lower court to decide.
Continue reading...Anxious donors plot next moves after Biden debate calamity
Campaign announces record fundraising in wake of Trump debate but wealthy Democrats undecided on path forward
A silver lining of Joe Biden’s pernicious debate performance was, according to a succession of upbeat emails from the president’s re-election campaign, a record fundraising haul.
By Sunday night, only three days after he stumbled through 90 painful minutes in the company of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump, more than $33m had dropped into Biden campaign coffers. Debate day itself was “our best grassroots fundraising day ever”, officials announced.
Continue reading...Lawsuit accuses Iran, Syria and North Korea of providing support for Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel – The Associated Press
- Lawsuit accuses Iran, Syria and North Korea of providing support for Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel The Associated Press
- Victims of Hamas attack sue Iran, Syria, North Korea in U.S. court Reuters
- US citizens sue state sponsors of terrorism, Iran, Syria and North Korea, for aiding Hamas mass murder Fox News
- ADL to seek compensation for 100 Israeli-American Oct 7 victims The Jerusalem Post
- Hamas Skimmed $1 Billion in U.N. Aid for Weapons and Tunnels, Suit Says The New York Times
Ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan arbitrarily detained, says UN working group
Geneva-based UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention says 'appropriate remedy' would be to release Khan 'immediately'.