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Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Destroying Reconstruction Equipment

(Beirut) – The Israeli military’s repeated attacks on reconstruction-related equipment and other civilian facilities in southern Lebanon throughout 2025 violate the laws of war and are apparent war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. Re

Australia Beach Shooting a Heinous Attack on Jewish Community

(Sydney) – A summer Sunday evening at Sydney, Australia’s Bondi beach turned into a terrifying nightmare as two gunmen opened fire on people celebrating the first night of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. Sixteen people have been confirmed

Japan’s Economic Timebomb Is About To Hit US Markets, Mortgages & Retirement Savings: What You Need To Know

Japan – one of the world’s leading economies and the largest foreign holder of US Treasury debt – is entering a phase of rising interest rates following three decades of ultra-low borrowing costs. With a debt-to-GDP ratio near a mammoth 235

WHO’s anti-nicotine campaign turns dirty

In mid-November, the WHO held its 11th Conference of the Parties (“COP11”) to the WHO FCTC, which concluded with a series of critical decisions on global tobacco control. Adopted by the 56th World Health Assembly on 21 May 2003, the WHO Fra

US: ICE Arrest at FIFA Event Spotlights Dangers for World Cup

(New York) – The arrest and return of an asylum seeker who took his children to the Club World Cup soccer tournament final on July 13, 2025, raises serious concerns about the safety of noncitizens attending the 2026 World Cup in the United

Cameroon: Prominent Opposition Leader Dies in Custody

(Nairobi) – The death in custody of a prominent Cameroon opposition leader, Anicet Ekane, should be impartially, promptly, and effectively investigated, Human Rights Watch said today. Ekane, 74, the leader of the African Movement for New In

Denis Rancourt: The law of excess mortality

Denis Rancourt has been researching excess mortality during the covid era for five years. In short, excess deaths since 2020 have not been due to a pandemic of a deadly virus, but rather due to “the law of excess mortality.” The law goes s

Thailand: Montagnard Activist Extradited to Vietnam

(Bangkok) – Thai authorities forcibly returned to Vietnam the prominent Montagnard human rights activist Y Quynh Bdap, putting him at risk of torture and other serious abuses, Human Rights Watch said today. Thai authorities extradited Bdap,

AI isn’t just taking over jobs; it’s now taking over creation itself

Sam Altman is funding a project to use gene editing to develop human babies that do not have a hereditary disease. They claim this is to cure incurable heritable genetic diseases – but that’s not what the end goal is. Let’s not lose touch

Philippe Bolopion to Lead Human Rights Watch

(New York) – Philippe Bolopion, a 13-year veteran of Human Rights Watch and a former journalist who has extensively advocated on atrocities in conflict zones, has been named the executive director of Human Rights Watch, the organization ann

Cloudflare CEO explains what happened to cause a widespread internet outage

A major global outage at Cloudflare on Tuesday, 18 November 2025, disrupted access to numerous high-profile websites and services, including X (formerly Twitter), ChatGPT, Spotify, Zoom and various forex and CFD brokers, with the incident r

Cloudflare outage makes hundreds of websites inaccessible

A widespread outage at Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure provider, has caused numerous websites, including X (formerly Twitter), Downdetector, OpenAI and Spotify to become inaccessible on Tuesday, 18 November 2025, with users enco