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In the six months since Mahsa Amini’s death, Iranian security forces have reportedly used draconian tactics to try to suppress dissent.View Entire Post ›

The ICC warrants mark the first international charges to be brought since the invasion started in 2022.View Entire Post ›

It’s a Mother’s Day *and* Paddy’s Day double whammy, people.View Entire Post ›

A new UN-backed report released Thursday found Russia has committed war crimes and likely crimes against humanity during its yearlong invasion of Ukraine.View Entire Post ›

More than 20,000 people are now known to have been killed in the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria, making it one of the deadliest disasters in a decade.View Entire Post ›

The Sam Altman–founded company Worldcoin says it aims to alleviate global poverty, but so far it has angered the very people it claims to be helping.View Entire Post ›

The fashion and lifestyle influencers have nearly 1 million followers each. Iranian’s state media disputed the length of their reported prison sentence.View Entire Post ›

As something of an alarm clock, the piper would play at 9 a.m. for 15 minutes for the monarch wherever she was in residence.View Entire Post ›

“I want to tell the terrorists that no matter how much oppression you would impose on us, you can’t defeat us!” she told BuzzFeed News.View Entire Post ›

Benedict was the first pontiff since the 13th century to relinquish the papacy without external pressure.View Entire Post ›

The Brazilian “King of Football” had been treated for colon cancer since 2021.View Entire Post ›

Trevor Reed’s release from Russia highlighted concerns over the continued detention of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another former Marine, Paul Whelan.View Entire Post ›

Human rights groups say at least 448 people, including 60 children, have been killed by security forces since protests broke out over Mahsa Amini’s death.View Entire Post ›

At a World Cup defined by suppression of dissent, Iran’s players have risked the most to call out injustice.View Entire Post ›

Protests and vigils have been reported in multiple cities and universities — a mass public movement that’s rare in China.View Entire Post ›

FIFA banned team captains from wearing an armband in support of LGBTQ rights as a stand against World Cup host country Qatar, which has the death penalty for homosexual acts.View […]

The Iranian national team stayed silent when the national anthem played before its match against England. Fans in the crowd also held up signs and photos of protesters killed by […]

“It is in their interest to impose restrictions on women because they can’t do it on males.”View Entire Post ›

The WNBA star was sentenced to nine years in prison last month, but advocates are pleading for a prisoner swap.View Entire Post ›

A researcher doubts WhatsApp’s claim that Communities will “meaningfully reduce the spread of potentially harmful misinformation.”View Entire Post ›

A witness told BuzzFeed News she was making her way through the crowd when “suddenly this wave of panic rushed us.” This story contains graphic photos and describes disturbing […]

Protesters around the world gathered to protest Iran’s crackdown after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish woman who died while in custody of the country’s […]

The death certificate also revealed new information regarding the monarch’s exact time of death.View Entire Post ›

“If you’re British, this is the queue you’ve been training for all your life. The final boss of queues.”View Entire Post ›

The Queen’s coffin will lie in state at Westminster Hall until her funeral on Monday.View Entire Post ›

I was born during the longest period of global stability. Now, it appears all of that is fleeting.View Entire Post ›

Mourners have been leaving Paddington-themed items, including soft toys, jars of marmalade, and even sandwiches, but officials are saying they’ve had enough.View Entire Post ›

From Legoland to Crazy Frog.View Entire Post ›

The death of the Queen represents the loss of one of the most immediately identifiable symbols of “Britishness” on earth and the end of the second Elizabethan age.View Entire […]

Rodrigo Ventosilla, an activist from Peru and a graduate student at Harvard Kennedy School, died days after being arrested with his spouse at the airport.View Entire Post ›