The US state of Minnesota is bracing for a statewide day of protest. Residents are expected to stay home on January 23, shutting down schools and businesses to "ICE out ICE", protesting the intensifie...
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The Adelaide Writers' Week retracted an invitation to an Australian-Palestinian author, citing the the Bondi Beach attack. Dozens, including the event's director and the former PM of New Zealand, with...
Thousands of people from various groups have shown up for protests in the adjacent cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul to protest against ICE operations....
Residents of the Ukrainian capital are facing massive power outages, a lack of water and heat as Russia intensifies attacks on the country's energy grid. As many as 600,000 may have left the city....
Tensions remain high in Minneapolis as protesters continued to clash with law enforcement overnight going into Friday....
Ugandans head to the polls on Thursday for presidential elections with President Yoweri Museveni seeking to extend his 40 years in power amid repression and internet blackouts....
Despite the ceasefire, conditions in Gaza remain perilous for many residents, with UNICEF reporting that more than 100 children have been killed by military action since the truce began. Large numbers...
Following clashes in Syria, people in the Kurdish-majority Kobane are facing a "catastrophic" humanitarian situation, with activists warning they lack food, water and power....
The fatal shooting of a man in Minneapolis by a federal immigration agent sparked renewed outrage in the US on a week that saw revellers line the streets of Dakar to celebrate Senegal's Africa Cup of ...
Billionaire wealth surged at three times its recent pace last year to reach its highest level on record, deepening economic and political divides that threaten democratic stability, anti-poverty gr...
A Washington Post review of videos from Iran posted online of recent protests illustrates how widely violence has spread....
Humanitarian aid workers face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty of facilitating the illegal entry of migrants to Greece. The trial has been dubbed "the largest case of the criminalization of so...
Community donations at Smitten Kitten (left and right), and BabyBel Mozzarella the cat (middle), are supporting Minnesotans. Mikayla Stanek (Smitten Kitten); Vanessa Beardsley (Catzen) January is typi...
Patty O'Keefe, who is a U.S. Citizen, said she was held in a detention center in Minneapolis for over nine hours without a phone call, food, water or a bathroom break....
Two open letters are directed at Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. | Photo: Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images X is awash with nonconsensual sexual deepfakes that blatantly violate Apple's ...
It's been 25 years since the launch of Wikipedia on January 15th, 2001, and it's come a long way from housing just 100 pages to becoming a behemoth of online knowledge with more than 65 million articl...
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The United States on Thursday said Iran halted 800 executions of protesters under pressure from President Donald Trump, after Gulf allies appeared to pull him back from military action over Tehran's d...
Connecticut tribes said in an amicus brief supporting the state's crackdown on prediction market operators that Kalshi siphons away casino revenue....