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Saudi Arabia’s human rights record has come under intense scrutiny in recent months. Earlier this year, the country detained dozens of prominent women’s rights activists — most without access to communication and many who were never formally charged with a crime. Award-winning campaigner Samar Badawi was arrested in August, which sparked a massive feud between […]
gotpap/STAR MAX/IPx CBS has hired two law firms to investigate the sexual misconduct allegations against its CEO, Leslie Moonves. Six women alleged that Moonves had accosted them sexually without their consent, according to a New Yorker article published last week. Covington & Burling and Debevoise & Plimpton, two top-flight legal entities, will handle the matter […]
A three-man crew of Russian journalists was killed in the Central African Republic, with colleagues saying they were shooting a film about mercenaries in the country. Local police say they may have fallen victim to a robbery. The three men have been named as journalist Orhan Dzhemal, director Aleksandr Rastorguyev, and cameraman Kirill Radchenko. Dzhemal […]
Guang Niu/Getty Images A Chinese university announced it had removed a prominent professor after hearing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against him. The professor’s firing has become a major win for China’s #MeToo movement, which has struggled to gain traction in a traditional and largely conservative society. Sexual misconduct has long been taboo subject in China, […]
Published time: 2 Jan, 2018 03:33 Edited time: 2 Jan, 2018 03:59 The growing list of female Russian presidential hopefuls has received a new addition. A Muslim journalist who is the wife and adviser of a Russian mufti is the latest to submit her bid. Aina Gamzatova, a successful journalist and the head of Russia’s […]
Published time: 13 Nov, 2017 00:53 Russian extreme sportsman Valery Rozov died in Nepal while jumping from Ama Dablam, a 6,812-meter-high mountain in the Everest region Saturday. Rozov’s body has still not been recovered. The circumstances around the tragedy is still unclear. The daredevil sportsman was pursuing a quest of the ‘Seven Summits,’ which involved […]
Snopes Fact-checking website Snopes said it may shut down over a dispute with a vendor that is withholding advertising revenue. The 23-year-old site announced on Monday said it was “in danger of closing its doors” over a dispute with Proper Media, whom Snopes founder David Mikkelson claimed is holding Snopes “hostage” by barring the site from making modifications, placing new ads, and receiving revenue from […]
The deportation of a well-known Irishman on an expired visa sparked outrage from immigrant communities who fear federal immigration officers are now targeting all undocumented immigrants, not just those convicted of serious crimes. John Cunningham, 38, was deported to Ireland Wednesday night after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers showed up at his home […]
REUTERS/Carlos Barria (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, has hired a prominent trial lawyer to help represent him in inquiries linked to Russia, the New York Times reported on Monday citing another member of his legal team. Kushner took on Abbe D. Lowell, the newspaper said, joining other senior administration figures […]
REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman Workers in New Orleans began removing the first of four prominent Confederate monuments early Monday, the latest Southern institution to sever itself from symbols viewed by many as a representation racism and white supremacy. Trucks arrived to begin removing the first memorial, one that commemorates whites who tried to topple a biracial post-Civil […]
