US’ Blinken condemns Hong Kong authorities over bounties for activists | Human Rights News

US’ Blinken condemns Hong Kong authorities over bounties for activists | Human Rights News

Top US diplomat calls on international community to oppose ‘transnational repression.’ United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has condemned Hong Kong authorities for placing bounties on five pro-democracy activists based overseas, including a US citizen, calling on the international community to oppose “transnational repression.” Blinked said on Friday that…

Trump’s ex-lawyer Giuliani told to pay 8m for defaming election workers | News

Trump’s ex-lawyer Giuliani told to pay $148m for defaming election workers | News

Ruby Freeman and Wandrea ‘Shaye’ Moss faced outpouring of racist and sexist threats after Giuliani’s false claims. Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who served as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, has been ordered to pay $148m in damages to two former election workers he defamed with false claims about…

Friends star Matthew Perry died of ketamine overdose, autopsy finds | Entertainment News

Friends star Matthew Perry died of ketamine overdose, autopsy finds | Entertainment News

Los Angeles medical examiner says drowning and heart disease were contributing factors in actor’s accidental death. “Friends” actor Matthew Perry, who was found dead in a jacuzzi at his Los Angeles home in October, died from an accidental ketamine overdose, an autopsy has found. Perry, who played the wise-cracking Chandler…

China’s youth compete for stable gov’t jobs in unstable economic times | Business and Economy News

China’s youth compete for stable gov’t jobs in unstable economic times | Business and Economy News

A good result on China’s annual national civil service exam is a requirement for any Chinese candidate who wants to be considered for the tens of thousands of vacant civil service jobs that the government seeks to fill every year. Many of the vacant positions are reserved for recent Chinese…

Israeli air attack on residential home in Rafah kills four Palestinians | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli air attack on residential home in Rafah kills four Palestinians | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli warplanes have bombed a house belonging to the Shehadeh family in the Brazil neighbourhood in the Rafah governorate, south of the Gaza Strip. Four people were killed in the attack on Thursday, and dozens of others wounded. At least 15 people remain missing under the rubble. The wounded were…

Israeli army says it mistakenly killed three captives held in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli army says it mistakenly killed three captives held in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

The captives were killed during combat with Palestinian fighters after they were erroneously identified as a threat. The Israeli army has killed three captives held by Palestinian armed groups in Gaza after “mistakenly” identifying them as a threat, according to Israeli military officials. The military said on Friday that the…

Israeli strike kills Al Jazeera cameraman, injures Gaza bureau chief | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli strike kills Al Jazeera cameraman, injures Gaza bureau chief | Israel-Palestine conflict News

NewsFeed An Al Jazeera journalist was killed and another injured by Israeli missiles in southern Gaza. Cameraman Samer Abudaqa, who had been critically injured, died after paramedics were prevented from rescuing him. Gaza bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh was wounded in the same strike. The network deems this incident a deliberate…

Al Jazeera condemns Israeli forces killing of cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Al Jazeera condemns Israeli forces killing of cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Media network says it holds Israel accountable for systematically targeting and killing journalists and their families. Al Jazeera Media Network condemns in the strongest terms the Israeli drone attack on a Gaza school that resulted in the killing of cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa. The Network holds Israel accountable for systematically…

How did a far-right outsider rise to power in Argentina? | The Far Right

How did a far-right outsider rise to power in Argentina? | The Far Right

In just three years, Javier Milei, an eccentric libertarian economist and regular participant on talk shows on TV, managed to create a political party and become president of Argentina. And in the second round of the election, he beat his Peronist rival Sergio Massa, who was economy minister at the…