United Nations human rights experts have condemned the arrest, alleged enforced disappearance and detention of six Egyptian journalists who make up the entire newsroom of the independent investigative media platform Matsadaash, warning
Israelis began voting on Tuesday in an election that could determine Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political future, as voters weigh his handling of the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks, subsequent wars and
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A group of 21 Indian news publishers has challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in the Supreme Court over a privacy law they say could undermine investigative journalism, expose confidential sources and
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Nearly 300 journalists have been killed by Israeli forces since October 2023, while more than 400 others have been wounded, according to Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation
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Sri Lanka has recorded 105,097 dengue cases so far this year, with the death toll rising to 79, according to the National Dengue Control Unit, which released the figures yesterday. The Western
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A coalition of more than 60 US publishers has launched legal action against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the technology giants of using copyrighted news content without permission or payment. The publishers argue
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Manipur’s ethnic conflict is entering a more volatile phase, with renewed civilian killings, armed confrontations and protests spreading across the Valley and Hill districts. At least 95 insurgency-linked fatalities have been recorded
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Pension systems worldwide are facing mounting financial pressure as people live longer and birth rates fall, leaving retirement funds responsible for paying benefits over extended periods while the pool of workers contributing
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When street violence is mistaken for popular will, a small but determined mob can acquire influence far beyond its numbers. The challenge for democracies is to protect the right to peaceful protest
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With 10 days remaining before the United States midterm elections, election officials, voting rights advocates and legal experts are warning that President Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine confidence in the electoral system
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Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian human rights activist awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, says decades of repression have failed to extinguish demands for democracy, equality and freedom in Iran. “Iranian society no
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The cancellation of a book launch in Madrid has exposed a growing challenge for literary publishers: how to verify the human origins of unpublished works as artificial intelligence becomes more difficult to
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Microsoft researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that diagnoses patients by working through medical cases step by step, achieving more than twice the accuracy of general physicians in solving complex diagnostic
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The release of You Can See Everything, a film documenting the final weeks before Elizabeth Holmes went to prison in 2023, has returned the disgraced entrepreneur and her failed blood-testing company, Theranos,
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Sri Lanka plans to replace the existing net-accounting system for rooftop solar electricity consumers with a mechanism that offsets generation against consumption in real time, as the Government seeks to reduce electricity
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Gardiner Harris, a former pharmaceutical industry reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, has accused Johnson & Johnson (J&J) of a pattern of misconduct spanning decades, arguing that
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