Fri 10 December 2021: An international campaign was launched in Johannesburg on Thursday to bring the self-exiled Gupta brothers back to South Africa to face trial on charges of looting billions of rands from state institutions. Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta, who are accused of massive state capture due to their closeness to former president […]
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Fri 10 December 2021: AlgorithmWatch warns that a plethora of automated decision-making systems were implemented in haste under the guise of public health. The COVID-19 pandemic was exploited as an excuse to further normalise surveillance and monitor an increasing number of daily activities of people around the world under the guise of public health, a […]
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Thu 09 December 2021: The UK-based unofficial tribunal says the Chinese government’s alleged forced birth control of Muslim Uighurs amounts to genocide. The tribunal was established in September last year with the help of the NGO Coalition for Genocide Response to investigate “ongoing atrocities and possible genocide” against the Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Turkic Muslim […]
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Fri 10 December 2021: Loujain al-Hathloul, a prominent Saudi women’s rights activist, has filed a lawsuit against three former US intelligence and military officers who admitted in a US court to assisting the UAE in hacking operations. Hathloul claimed in her lawsuit, filed in a US district court in Oregon in collaboration with the Electronic […]
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Thu 09 December 2021: Muslims residing in countries that are not members of the Parliamentary Union of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) are exposed to violence, persecution, and violations of basic human rights, the Turkish parliament speaker said on Thursday, Anadolu News Agency reports. Speaking at the 46th executive committee meeting of the Parliamentary Union of […]
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Thu 09 December 2021: The UK High Court is expected to rule on the US government’s appeal against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange’s extradition on Friday morning. The court recently heard an appeal of a lower court ruling refusing to extradite the journalist to face charges in connection with leaked secret US papers. BREAKING: Ruling on […]
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Thu 09 December 2021: According to Iraq’s national security adviser, the US-led coalition’s combat campaign against ISIL (ISIS) in Iraq has officially ended. Qassim al-Araji made the declaration on Thursday after the final round of technical talks in Baghdad to formally transfer the combat mission to an advisory mission assisting Iraqi forces. “We are officially […]
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Thu 09 December 2021: Farmers in India will end a long-running strike after the government agrees to a number of outstanding requests, including promises that guaranteed pricing will be considered for all produce, not only rice and wheat, according to union leaders. “We have decided to call off the protest as most of our demands […]
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Thu 09 December 2021: If the 2020 US election had been held a year later, in November 2021, more Americans would have voted for Donald Trump, a former US Presidnt, over Joe Biden. According to a new Harvard CAPS-Harris poll, 48 percent of Americans said they would vote for Donald Trump, while only 45 percent […]
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Thu 09 December 2021: As the number of Covid cases in England continues to rise amid fears of a new variant, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced further measures to help stem the spread of the deadly virus. Vaccine passports have been made mandatory for venues with large crowds as part of ‘Plan B.’ Work-from-home […]
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