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Byline: Rebecca Ratcliffe South-East Asia correspondent Kokila Annamalai, a prominent Singaporean activist, has spent years supporting death row inmates and their families as they fight to avoid execution. So, when [...]

Byline: Meryl Kornfield Donald Trump has a new yarn to tell about 2020's racial justice protests. For years, the former president has falsely claimed that he stopped protesters who were [...]

Byline: Caroline Kimeu When an anonymous caller threatened to rape and arrest Nyombi Morris if he did not stop 'promoting homosexuality', he knew he had to flee Uganda. The 26-year-old [...]

Byline: Maureen Groppe USA TODAY WASHINGTON - Days after the Supreme Court in 2022 overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, a New York county passed a law barring anti-abortion [...]

Byline: Sean Collins Walsh Oct. 24Game on. City Councilmember Mark Squilla on Thursday introduced 13 pieces of legislation that, if approved, would allow the 76ers to build a new arena [...]

The overhauled Competition Act is being put to good use on behalf of Canadians, Two years ago, Cineplex started charging some moviegoers $1.50 extra to buy a ticket online. The Competition Bureau saw deceptive marketing. The bureau for decades was an afterthought. Today it [...]

Byline: By, Robert Macdonald Tensions and 'agonising' pressures between budget rules, public needs and opinion, political beliefs and government regulations were highlighted as West Lancashire Council debated potential early swimming [...]

Prague, Oct 17 (CTK) - Animal Defenders have been calling for expanded camera coverage at slaughterhouses in Czechia, which they say would reduce the number of cruelty cases, and they [...]

Byline: Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent The family of a paralysed right-to-die campaigner who was refused permission to have a doctor kill him has said he would be 'absolutely fuming' [...]

Byline: Janet Eastham PRAYING at home may become a criminal offence under new Scottish abortion laws, the SNP Government has warned. The legislation, which took effect across Scotland last month, [...]

Kampala, Uganda - At exactly 3:21pm on August 25, Moses Odongo received a call informing him that his 14-year-old cousin Christine had died attempting to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. Odongo, [...]

Byline: Nina Lakhani and Hilary Beaumont It was around dawn on a chilly day last November when West Virginia state troopers forcibly extricated Jerome Wagner out from a 25ft-deep pit [...]

Byline: Hilary Beaumont and Nina Lakhani Fossil fuel lobbyists coordinated with lawmakers behind the scenes and across state lines to push and shape laws that are escalating a crackdown on [...]

Byline: Brendan O'Neill Two kinds of silence have left me cold recently. The first is the Taliban's brutal edicts silencing women's voices. Its Islamist decrees insisting that not only should [...]

Washington: Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has Issues the following Formal Notice: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION Florida Gas Transmission Company, LLC Docket No. CP24-516-000 NOTICE OF STAFF [...]

BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts gun advocates announced Tuesday that they have gathered enough signatures to place a question on the 2026 ballot that would repeal https://apnews.com/article/massachusetts-ghost-guns-ffe8ef6dced87cf4c68e797ad7a6651e that cracks down on [...]

Student activists deserve respect, privacy and safety By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Deeply rooted within university culture is the student body's right to free speech and self-expression. At UC Davis, it [...]

Berlin: Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ) has issued the following news release: The Federal Cabinet approved the draft bill submitted by the Federal Ministry of Justice and the Federal Ministry [...]

Byline: Anumita Kaur For years, police in Medford, Ore., spied on progressive activists as they planned pro-choice rallies, protested police brutality and celebrated Juneteenth, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday [...]

Byline: Anumita Kaur For years, police in Medford, Ore., spied on progressive activists as they planned pro-choice rallies, protested police brutality and celebrated Juneteenth, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday [...]

Byline: Molly Hennessy-Fiske On the eve of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, activists and city officials continue to disagree about when, where and how some protests can go forward, [...]

Byline: Greg Bluestein gbluestein@ajc.com An altercation broke out at a recent opening of a Donald Trump campaign office in Valdosta when a conservative activist confronted a Republican state legislator who [...]

Byline: Ben Quinn Images of Tommy Robinson using his phone while sunbathing in Cyprus as a Rotherham hotel housing asylum seekers was set alight have prompted outrage among those long [...]

The DA makes this call following multiple reports of yet another state-sponsored clampdown on pro-democracy activists by a paranoid ZANU-PF regime, fearing public protests in the lead-up to the summit. [...]