A Dutch court ruled that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates could face trial in the Netherlands, following a case filed by seven individuals claiming to have suffered injuries from COVID-19 vaccines. The case,
The case of Jason Arday, the black sociology professor whose academic career at the University of Cambridge ended amid allegations ranging from a fabricated biography to systematic plagiarism, has become a striking
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Five years after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, the country’s education crisis is becoming a wider threat to its social and economic future. Girls remain barred from school beyond the
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On July 30, 2026, enormous crowds crossed from Morocco into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta. Within hours, Spanish authorities estimated that roughly 72,000 had entered Ceuta, overwhelming a city of just 83,000 residents.
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The US Navy’s aircraft carriers have come under renewed scrutiny following complaints about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, the aircraft carrier deployed in the Middle East for almost seven months without
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UN experts have warned States against normalising Taliban rule in Afghanistan, saying five years of increasingly entrenched restrictions have demonstrated the need for greater international accountability rather than accommodation of the de
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The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, has warned that a new Russian law imposing sweeping restrictions on Russians living abroad represents an
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For more than six decades, the United States has attempted to make the Cuban people pay for their decision to pursue an independent, socialist path. The latest phase of this economic war
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UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, has expressed serious concern over what she described as a troubling pattern in Israeli family courts and
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by Durga Velayudham A marriage certificate is not merely a piece of paper recording a private relationship. In a legal system founded upon registration, it is an official record created through a
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A liberal Taiwanese industry is exploiting a vast Chinese demand for pornography that Beijing bans, using Mandarin, Chinese settings and increasingly artificial intelligence to make audiences believe what they are watching comes
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