Police detain pro-Palestinian protesters defying Amsterdam ban
Dutch police detained hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters who defied a ban on demonstrations.
Iran announces ‘treatment clinic’ for women who defy strict hijab laws
The move has been described as ‘chilling’ by activists and rights groups as arrests mount over dress code breaches
The Iranian state has said that it plans to open a treatment clinic for women who defy the mandatory hijab laws that require women to cover their heads in public.
The opening of a “hijab removal treatment clinic” was announced by Mehri Talebi Darestani, the head of the Women and Family Department of the Tehran Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. She said the clinic will offer “scientific and psychological treatment for hijab removal”.
Continue reading...Australia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departure
Vote cast with 158 other countries to recognise ‘permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory’
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Australia has backed in a United Nations resolution to recognise the “permanent sovereignty” of Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, marking a major departure from its previous position.
At a UN committee vote on Thursday, Australia voted with 158 other countries, including the UK and New Zealand, on a resolution to recognise the “permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources”.
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Continue reading...What does a second Trump presidency mean for Big Tech?
US President-elect Donald Trump is expected to reshape tech industry policy.
Valencia floods: Spain clings to fragments of hope in time of disaster
Floods and torrential rain have not gone away and residents hail stories of heroism as the clean-up continues.
Alexis Wright wins $60,000 Melbourne literature prize
The Waanyi writer, who won the Miles Franklin award and Stella prize this year for her novel Praiseworthy, has been recognised for her body of work and contribution to Australian culture
Alexis Wright has been awarded the $60,000 Melbourne prize for literature, capping off an extraordinary year in which she has won more than $200,000 in prize money after the publication of her epic novel, Praiseworthy.
The Melbourne prize for literature, awarded every three years, recognises a Victorian writer whose “body of published work has made an outstanding contribution to Australian literature and to cultural and intellectual life”. Past winners include Christos Tsiolkas, Alison Lester and Helen Garner.
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Continue reading...Pop hit APT too distracting for S Korea’s exam-stressed students
A yearly blanket of silence has once again enveloped South Korea, as half a million students sit for the most important test of their lives.
Protests in Paris over pro-Israel gala organised by far-right figures
The event, intended to raise funds for the Israeli army, comes before a France-Israel football match in the capital.
North Korean soldiers fight alongside Russians in Kursk Oblast – Euromaidan Press
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Paul tries to goad Tyson at baffling news conference
A news conference between a disinterested Mike Tyson and an agitated Jake Paul ended with a cordial face-off.
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Ukraine War Latest Update: Ukraine Braces for Critical Winter Phase as Front Line May Shift 35 km Westward – Kyiv Post
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One dead following blasts at Brazil Supreme Court – BBC.com
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Families reunite with bodies of missing British soldiers 70 years on
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CIA official Asif Rahman arrested in leak of secret files on Israel – The Washington Post
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‘I have lost everything’: southern Africa battles hunger amid historic drought
Crops have failed in several countries, with 27m people at risk of hunger according to World Food Programme
Emmanuel Himoonga paced his dry field, picking up stalks of maize that had been bleached almost to bone white.
The 61-year-old chief of Shakumbila, a mainly agricultural community of about 7,000 people roughly 70 miles west of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, had seen droughts before.
Continue reading...Israel accused of crimes against humanity over forced displacement in Gaza
Human Rights Watch says it has evidence that suggests ‘the war crime of forcible transfer’ of civilians
Israel is using evacuation orders to pursue the “deliberate and massive forced displacement” of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, which says the policy amounts to crimes against humanity.
The US-based group added it had collected evidence that suggested “the war crime of forcible transfer [of the civilian population]”, describing it as “a grave breach of the Geneva conventions and a crime under the Rome statute of the international criminal court”.
Continue reading...Dead drops, PR stunts and punishment beatings: the rapid rise of Russia’s powerful darknet drug industry
Tech-savvy organised crime groups profiting from billion-dollar enterprise that is spreading beyond Russian borders
At any one moment in towns and cities across Russia, thousands of drug packages lie buried in the ground, attached by magnets to lamp-posts or taped underneath window sills, waiting to be picked up by their intended customers.
From the streets of Moscow to remote towns in Siberia, hand-to-hand buying of illegal drugs – as is the norm in most of the world – is on the wane. Instead, retail-size bags of drugs are secreted using spycraft by an army of young kladmen (stash men) who upload dead-drop locations, which are unlocked when customers make an online purchase.
Continue reading...Israel prepares Lebanon cease-fire plan as ‘gift’ to Trump, officials say – The Washington Post
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- Netanyahu Plans a Big Gift for Trump—Two Months From Now The New Republic
- Lebanese ceasefire efforts inch ahead as Israel keeps up fierce bombardment Reuters
- Israel’s maximalist demands unlikely to lead to ceasefire with Hezbollah Al Jazeera English