On August 27, 2026, the Balochistan Government announced bounties, ranging from 1 million to 1.5 million rupees, on nine Baloch women, for their alleged linkages to Fitna al Hindustan (A state term for Baloch
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International law now grants rights to all human beings, not only to citizens. ~ Kofi Annan International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn’t bring that up to me. ~ George
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The UK government’s new “one in, one out” migrant deportation scheme is facing criticism after only three migrants were returned to France in its first week, despite plans to remove at least
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“The proper way to respond” to white supremacist fascism “is to have a backbone,” says Tariq Khan, a historian and lecturer at Yale University, in an interview on September 17, a week after the assassination
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Artificial intelligence is no longer just drawing cats or writing emails—it’s now writing genomes. A team of researchers from Stanford University and the Arc Institute in Palo Alto, California, say they have
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CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance, calls on the government of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to halt the continued harassment of activists and journalists and crackdown on protests. One year since he
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At the grave of Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores (1971–2016) in La Esperanza, Honduras, where she was born and died, I watched a yellow butterfly flutter around a bougainvillea bush. It flew as
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo A Sri Lankan state-owned bank has reportedly refused to open an account for a Russian diplomat posted in Colombo, drawing attention to possible implications for Sri Lanka’s
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A damning new report accuses the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) of allowing senior Hamas operatives to infiltrate and control its education system, raising alarming questions about the agency’s neutrality
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Thirty-two years after the Oslo Accords raised hopes of a Palestinian state, the dream of two independent nations existing side by side appears more distant than ever. In the West Bank village
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