U.S. expected to sanction IDF unit for human rights violations in occupied West Bank U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to within days announce sanctions against the Israel Defense Forces "Netzah Yehuda" battalion for human rights violations in the occupied West Bank, ... 04/20/2024 - 6:20 am | View Link
Verstappen Wins Again. This Time He Takes First Formula 1 Sprint Race of the Season Max Verstappen, continuing his dominance in Formula 1, took Saturday's first sprint race of the season — the prelude to the full-blown Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday. Verstappen passed Lewis Hamilton of ... 04/19/2024 - 8:05 pm | View Link
Red Bull Won't Rush to Announce 2025 Driver Lineup, Horner Says Red Bull is not in a rush to announce its driver line-up for 2025, team boss Christian Horner said on Friday ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix, following reports that the champions are in talks with ... 04/18/2024 - 11:56 pm | View Link
Liverpool’s Ljinders targeted by Besiktas over vacant managerial role Besiktas are the latest club to show an interest in Liverpool assistant manager Pep Lijnders. The Turkish club are searching for a new head coach after sacking Fernando Santos earlier this month, and ... 04/18/2024 - 3:42 am | View Link
'Leaving the ECHR is not a rejection of human rights — it will instead protect and defend the British people,' writes Bella Wallersteiner As a descendant of Holocaust survivors, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has held profound significance for me. It has stood as a beacon of hope, born out of the ashes of World War II ... 04/12/2024 - 7:00 pm | View Link
(MOSCOW) — Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will remain jailed on espionage charges until at least late June, after a Moscow court on Tuesday rejected his appeal that sought to end his pretrial detention.
The 32-year-old U. S. citizen was detained in late March 2023 while on a reporting trip and has spent over a year in jail, with authorities routinely extending his time behind bars and rejecting his appeals.
Five migrants including a child have died while attempting to cross the English channel, French authorities said on Tuesday. The news comes hours after the U. K. passed a controversial bill that would allow the government to deport some migrants who enter the country illegally to Rwanda.
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The deaths took place after an overcrowded boat carrying around 110 people set out to cross the busy shipping lane from France to England.
PEN America has canceled its prestigious 2024 awards ceremony after nearly half the writers nominated for a prize withdrew their work in protest of the organization’s stance on the war in Gaza.
The group, which is dedicated to free expression, announced on Monday the cancellation of the April 29 awards in New York City.
KUALA LUMPUR — Two Malaysian military helicopters collided and crashed during a training session on Tuesday, killing all 10 people on board, the navy said.
The helicopters were rehearsing at a naval base in northern Perak state for the navy’s 90th anniversary celebration next month when the accident occurred, the navy said in a brief statement.
“All victims were confirmed dead on site,” it said, adding that the remains have been sent to the hospital to be identified.
A video circulating on social media purported to be of the incident showed several helicopters flying low in a formation.
Fresh off his feud with a Brazilian Supreme Court judge, Elon Musk is taking his next fight to the very top of the government down under. The owner of X and self-proclaimed champion of free speech has refused to comply with an Australian order to remove videos of violence from his platform, a move that has solicited the ire of the Prime Minister.
Just days after a knifeman killed six at a mall earlier this month, Australia was rocked by another stabbing incident in the suburbs of Sydney when, on April 15, a bishop and a priest were stabbed during a live-streamed sermon.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — On a recent morning at a hospital in the heart of gang territory in Haiti’s capital, a woman began convulsing before her body went limp as a doctor and two nurses raced to save her.
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They stuck electrodes to her chest and flipped on an oxygen machine while keeping their eyes on a computer screen that reflected a dangerously low oxygen level of 84%.
No one knew what was wrong with her.
Even more worrisome, the Doctors Without Borders hospital in the Cite Soleil slum was running low on key medicine to treat convulsions.
“The medication she really needs, we barely have,” said Dr.