Wed 26 February 2025: Social media giants Meta and X failed to take down far-right hate speech adverts on their platforms, in an apparent bid to influence election outcomes in Germany, an investigation has revealed. A report by corporate accountability group Ekō revealed that it submitted ten adverts to social media networks Meta and X this month, […]
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Wed 26 February 2025: Wars in Gaza, Ukraine and Myanmar among those spurring ‘digital violence’. Governments around the world oversaw a record-breaking year for internet shutdowns in 2024, a new report on “digital violence” suggests. There were 296 internet shutdowns documented across 54 countries last year, surpassing the 283 shutdowns in 39 countries in 2023, […]
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Tue 25 February 2025: The Trump administration has scrapped a Biden-era policy that required the US government to report on how American-supplied weapons are being used by allied nations, according to two US officials and a source familiar with the matter. The directive, National Security Memorandum 20 (NSM-20), obligated the US to assess whether recipient […]
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Tue 25 February 2025: Authorities in India imposed 84 blackouts across 16 states and territories, a report by Access Now and the #KeepItOn coalition has said. New Delhi: India imposed 84 internet shutdowns in 2024, only one behind Myanmar, which topped the list of global internet shutdowns. However, among democratic nations, India recorded the highest internet […]
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Tue 25 February 2025: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres emphasises alarming human rights abuses in Ukraine, Palestine, and DRC. Warmongers and authoritarians are “suffocating” human rights across the world, the chief of the United Nations has warned. Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres depicted a world where human rights […]
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Tue 25 February 2025: Judith Suminwa says more than 2,500 bodies buried without identification, ‘significant’ number of civilians among dead. More than 7,000 people have been killed in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since last month, Prime Minister Judith Suminwa says, with a “significant” number of civilians among the dead. Speaking to […]
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Tue 25 February 2025: Five newborn babies froze to death in the Gaza Strip amid cold weather in the war-torn enclave, a Palestinian doctor said on Tuesday. “Nine infants were hospitalized in the past two weeks due to health complications caused by severe cold,” Saeed Salah, Director of the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society Hospital in […]
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Mon 24 February 2025: In a surprising shift from longstanding U.S. policy, the United States sided with Russia on Monday to oppose a UN General Assembly resolution denouncing Russia’s war on Ukraine. This vote put the U.S. in conflict with its traditional European partners and in agreement with the aggressor, marking a notable shift as […]
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Mon 24 February 2025: The International Criminal Court (ICC) should investigate former US officials President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin for their accessorial roles in aiding and abetting, as well as intentionally contributing to, Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza, US civil society organisation […]
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Mon 24 February 2025: European Union countries today suspended a range of sanctions against Syria with immediate effect, Reuters has reported. They include restrictions related to energy, banking, transport and reconstruction. The EU has a range of sanctions in place targeting both individuals and economic sectors in Syria. European leaders began rethinking their approach after revel forces […]
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