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Iran bans Mahsa Amini’s family from traveling to receive the European Union’s top human rights prize
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian authorities banned members of the late Mahsa Amini’s household from touring to obtain the European Union’s high human rights prize on her behalf, a civil rights monitor reported. Amini’s demise whereas in police custody in 2022 sparked nationwide protests that rocked the Islamic Republic. The U.S.-based HRANA stated late … Read more

U.S. Imposes Visa Bans For Extremist Israeli Settlers
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Palestinians scuffle with Israeli settlers who set up tents on lands in Halhoul village north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, on Aug. 1, 2023.

The U.S. Division of State is set to implement travel bans on any Israeli settlers who’re implicated in assaults on Palestinians within the occupied West Financial institution. The transfer was introduced by Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday, as a part of efforts to determine stability within the Palestinian territory the place extremist settler … Read more

U.S. imposes visa bans on Israeli ‘extremist settlers’ in West Bank
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U.S. imposes visa bans on Israeli ‘extremist settlers’ in West Bank

Touch upon this storyRemark Add to your saved tales Save America will impose visa restrictions on folks believed to have engaged in violence within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution, Secretary of State Antony Blinken introduced Tuesday, following repeated requires Israel to do extra to forestall extremist assaults by Jewish settlers on Palestinians. The transfer comes … Read more

Russia bans international LGBT movement as ‘extremist’
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Russia bans international LGBT movement as ‘extremist’

Touch upon this storyRemark Add to your saved tales Save RIGA, Latvia — Russia’s Supreme Court docket on Thursday banned the “worldwide LGBT public motion” as an extremist group — though the alleged motion has no organizational construction, leaders, membership, web site or tackle. The Russian ban, which was accredited in a closed listening to, … Read more

Tijuana bans narcocorridos after threat to Peso Pluma
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Tijuana bans narcocorridos after threat to Peso Pluma

Touch upon this storyRemark Add to your saved tales Save Earlier this 12 months, the pop-pop-pop of bullets echoed inside a crowded mall in Tijuana, the place a Mexican band, Grupo Arriesgado, was signing autographs hours earlier than their Feb. 11 live performance was set to start. The evening earlier than, a cartel had hung … Read more

Nepal bans TikTok, citing disruption to ‘social harmony’
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Nepal bans TikTok, citing disruption to ‘social harmony’

Touch upon this storyRemark Add to your saved tales Save Nepal on Monday introduced a ban on the globally dominant short-form video app TikTok, saying its content material disturbed “social concord” within the nation. The choice, made throughout a cupboard assembly, was introduced by Rekha Sharma, the minister of communications and data expertise. “The federal … Read more

Nepal Bans TikTok and Tightens Control Over All Social Media Platforms
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The Nepali authorities introduced in a cupboard assembly Monday that TikTok could be banned to the nation’s 2.2 million customers to guard “social concord.” The sweeping transfer comes simply days after authorities issued a directive tightening content material regulation on all social media websites.  The ban is available in response to public claims that TikTok … Read more

Hungary Bans Minors From Visiting Prestigious Photo Exhibition Over LGBT Display
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Hungary World Press Photo LGBTQ+

People youthful than 18 have been barred from visiting this 12 months’s World Press Photograph exhibition in Budapest, after Hungary’s right-wing populist authorities decided that a few of its images violate a contentious regulation limiting LGBTQ+ content material. The celebrated international picture exhibition, on show in Hungary’s Nationwide Museum in Budapest, receives greater than 4 … Read more

Hungary bans teenagers from visiting World Press Photo exhibition over display of LGBTQ+ images
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BUDAPEST, Hungary — Folks youthful than 18 have been barred from visiting this yr’s World Press Picture exhibition in Budapest, after Hungary’s right-wing populist authorities decided that a few of its photographs violate a contentious legislation limiting LGBTQ+ content material. The celebrated international photograph exhibition, on show in Hungary’s Nationwide Museum in Budapest, receives greater … Read more

Haiti bans charter flights to Nicaragua in blow to migrants fleeing poverty and violence
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PORT=AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti’s authorities has banned all constitution flights to Nicaragua that migrants fleeing poverty and violence had been more and more utilizing of their quest to achieve america, in response to a bulletin issued Monday that The Related Press obtained. Haiti’s authorities didn’t present an evidence for the choice in its bulletin, which … Read more

European bans on pro-Palestinian protests and slogans test free speech
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European bans on pro-Palestinian protests and slogans test free speech

Touch upon this storyRemark Add to your saved tales Save BERLIN — In entrance of Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate, 10,000 folks rallied in solidarity with Israel. Main political events backed the occasion. In a rousing speech, Germany’s president heralded a nationwide accountability to “shield Jewish life.” A number of blocks away, officers in riot gear … Read more

U.S. bans export of more AI chips, including Nvidia H800, to China
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U.S. bans export of more AI chips, including Nvidia H800, to China

The U.S. Division of Commerce introduced Tuesday that it plans to stop the sale of extra superior synthetic intelligence chips to China within the coming weeks. The U.S. authorities says the brand new guidelines are meant to shut loopholes that popped up after final 12 months’s restrictions on AI chip exports went into impact. Shares … Read more

France bans pro-Palestinian protests amid call for Hamas ‘day of rage’
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France bans pro-Palestinian protests amid call for Hamas ‘day of rage’

French Inside Minister Gérald Darmanin imposed a ban on pro-Palestinian demonstrations Thursday, after the previous chief of Hamas urged Muslims worldwide to stage protests in help of Palestinians in a “day of rage,” the militant group’s normal name for demonstrations. The order, reported by Agence France-Presse, says such rallies would in all probability disrupt public … Read more