For a very long time, many in the Western world have not engaged at all with the issues stemming from the occupation of Palestine. The occupation was in the news, every year or so, for a day or two, and then it would go again. It was too “complicated”, those who knew about the context – on either...
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Ukraine’s Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky has been detained on suspicion of being involved in a multimillion-dollar landgrab scheme involving state property, according to prosecutors. An anticorruption court ordered Solsky to be held in custody until June 24, with bail set at 75.7 million...
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Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed free speech absolutist and CEO of X, Tesla, and SpaceX, is once again at the centre of a heated debate about free speech and censorship. Since buying X, the platform formally known as Twitter, in 2022, Musk has sparred with governments and public figures around the...
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TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer to shut down its app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight legislation to ban the platform from app stores in the U.S., four sources said. The TikTok app is displayed on an iPhone screen in Miami, Florida. US president Joe...
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The EU parliament has just approved sweeping new rules that will require companies to avoid and mitigate human rights and environmental abuses in their supply chains. These are noble aims. They have been a long time coming. But without careful design and more proactive support for business and...
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