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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani Posted A Video Of Him Speaking Mandarin And People Cannot Believe How Good He Is
Duolingo even commented, “How long is your streak?”
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Israeli Settlers Have Been Besieging Three Palestinian Families In Their Homes In The West Bank For Over A Week
The UN's human rights office called the siege "criminal" and said it was "clearly aimed at forcing" the families to leave.
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Venezuela Has Partially Restored Diplomatic Relations With Israel Despite Its Genocide In Gaza
The move does not fully restore diplomatic relations but creates an official channel between the two countries for the first time since 2009.
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How Lebanon Is Leading The Effort To End The Death Penalty In The Middle East With Rafik Zakharia From Lebanese Civil Rights Association At ECPM 2026
Lawyer Rafik Zakharia explained the principles behind the draft bill and how it came to be after 30 years of work.
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Lebanon Has Become The First Country In The Middle East To Abolish The Death Penalty
The law replaces the death penalty with a new sentence called "life imprisonment with aggravated hard labor," a harsher version of a life sentence.
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Syria Has Sentenced Ousted President Bashar Al-Assad To Death In Absentia For War Crimes
A court in Damascus sentenced Bashar and Maher to death in absentia in the first such verdict against Assad or anyone in his inner circle since his government fell.
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Netanyahu Has Rejected Trump's Gaza Peace Plan And Said Israel Will Not Withdraw Until Hamas Disarms
"As long as I am prime minister, a Palestinian state will not be established, not in Gaza and not in the West Bank," Netanyahu said.
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In A Rare Move, Israel Has Charged An Israeli Settler For Killing This Palestinian Activist Featured In “No Other Land”
This marks the first time that Israel has indicted a settler over the killing of a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank since 2019.
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Israel Killing This Lebanese Journalist And Injuring Her Colleague Was A War Crime, Three Investigations Found
Three human rights organizations each released the findings of separate investigations into the attack, all concluding it amounted to a war crime.
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This New Zealand Māori MP Slammed The Government For Making English An Official Language, Calling It A “Bastard” Language
Paul said the Indigenous language had been "beaten out of Māori systematically" through colonization.
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How Iran Is Using The War As A Cover To Increase Executions With Iran Human Rights’ Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam At ECPM 2026
Mahmood explains how the Iranian regime has been using the war as a cover to increase executions without facing the usual criticism and condemnation.
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Gaza Held One Of Its Largest Funerals For 112 Palestinians Recovered Nearly Three Years After Israel Killed Them
Thousands of Palestinians joined a funeral procession through Gaza City's streets, carrying the bodies on stretchers to a cemetery.