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@lemmy.worldhttps://www.hrw.org/news/2023/07/06/egypt-using-remote-hearings-isolate-prisoners
Egypt has begun holding detention renewal sessions for pre-trial detainees remotely via videoconference, with detainees attending the sessions from prisons under police custody.
https://euobserver.com/world/157229
Hungary has all-but dropped its veto on Sweden's Nato entry, as Turkey dials down rhetoric despite a Koran-burning scandal.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/07/netherlands-historic-victory-as-law-amended-to-recognize-that-sex-without-consent-is-rape/
Responding to the news that the Netherlands’ House of Representatives has voted to amend the Sexual Offences Act by introducing a consent-based definition of rape, Dagmar Oudshoorn, Director of Amnesty International Netherlands, said: “By amending our outdated law and recognizing that sex without consent is rape, the Netherlands has taken an important step towards combatting […]
https://theconversation.com/aspartame-popular-sweetener-could-be-classified-as-a-possible-carcinogen-by-who-but-theres-no-cause-for-panic-208895
Reports have indicated the artificial sweetener aspartame will be classified as ‘possibly carcinogenic to humans’ by the WHO. Here’s what that means – and doesn’t mean.
https://theconversation.com/bill-c-18-google-and-meta-spark-crucial-test-for-canadian-journalism-208827
A series of crises in the Canadian media sector will become a crucial test for what the country’s media landscape could and should look like in the 21st century.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/07/04/hong-kong-warrants-aim-activists-abroad
Hong Kong authorities have issued baseless arrest warrants and HK$1 million (US$128,000) bounties on eight exiled democracy activists and former legislators that expand China’s political intimidation campaign beyond its borders.
https://globalvoices.org/2023/07/04/heavy-rains-return-to-pakistan-raising-concerns-about-flood-preparedness/
Dozens of people had been killed in different parts of Pakistan due to rain and floods in the last week of June there are alerts of more rain in July.
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/04/philadelphia-mass-shooting
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/02/world/france-protests-violence-mayors-house-attack-intl-hnk/index.html
The grandmother of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk, who was fatally shot by a police officer in a Paris suburb last week, has called for an end to the violent protests that have swept the country since his death.
https://globalvoices.org/2023/06/27/palestinians-battle-for-their-homes-in-east-jerusalem/
Israeli settler organizations, supported by the state, exploit discriminatory laws to unjustly seize Palestinian homes, employing a pseudo-legal process to forcefully displace families from their residences.