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Winter of 1989: The Velvet Revolution in pictures

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1 week, 4 days ago

News orgs retract stories featuring Chinese celebrity dissident after NPR probe

NPR

News orgs retract stories featuring Chinese celebrity dissident after NPR probe At least ten news organizations have retracted or amended their stories after an NPR investigation showed that a man they featured as a brave Chinese dissident was accused of being a conman. Following NPR's reporting, at least 10 news organizations retracted or amended their stories, a mass action that …

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1 week, 4 days ago

NPR investigation of a Chinese celebrity dissident leads news orgs to retract stories

NPR

NPR investigation of a Chinese celebrity dissident leads news orgs to retract stories toggle caption AP/AP AMSTERDAM – In recent years, dozens of news organizations around the world have quoted or covered a young Chinese man named Wang Jingyu, who portrayed himself as a brave dissident standing up to Communist Party repression. NPR's reporting has now led at least 10 …

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Karnataka legislature winter session likely to put a lid on groupism in BJP, Congress

New Indian Express

BENGALURU: The 10-day winter session of the state legislature that commences in Belagavi on Monday is likely to put a lid on factionalism and power politics within the Ruling Congress and the Opposition BJP for the time being. In the BJP camp, the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly R Ashoka is likely to take along all the legislators …

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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Right-wing presenter sentenced to 80 hours of community service for racist comments

NL Times

The court in The Hague has sentenced the opinion maker and Ongehoord Nederland presenter Raisa Blommestijn to 80 hours of community service with another 40 hours conditionally suspended for insulting messages that were posted on the social media platform X. In one message, Blommestijn used the term “negroid primates.” With this, the court said that she was condescending about black …

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2 weeks, 6 days ago

Thai dissident jailed for two more years over royal defamation

Raw Story

One of Thailand's most prominent human rights activists was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday under the kingdom's royal defamation law, his fifth conviction on the controversial charges, a legal rights group said. Thailand has some of the world's strictest royal defamation laws, which shield King Maha Vajiralongkorn and his close family from criticism and which opponents say have …

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3 weeks ago

Toomaj Salehi, Iranian dissident rapper, released from prison

CNN

London CNN — Toomaj Salehi, an Iranian dissident rapper and activist, has been released from prison, according to a statement issued Monday by his international legal team. Salehi thanked his supporters on social media on Monday, writing: “Over the past two years you have done things for me that were unpredictable, glorious and unbelievable.” Earlier this year, the United States …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

'The first oligarch': Russian dissident warns of 'extremely dangerous' development in U.S.

Raw Story

America is close to having its first real oligarch, a Russian dissident — and former world chess champion — warned in an interview Sunday. Garry Kasparov, who now chairs the Renew Democracy Initiative, claimed to the Huffington Post that Elon Musk’s emergence at Trump’s side mixes business and politics in the same way as was seen in Russia after the …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Trump’s Next Term Could See America’s First True Oligarchs, Warns Democracy Activist Garry Kasparov

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Elon Musk, rocket and electric car company chief, sometime Internet troll and more recently Donald Trump’s point man for cutting alleged waste from the federal government, may be on the cusp of becoming something else: the country’s first real oligarch. That’s according to democracy activist and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, chairman of the New York-based …

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3 weeks, 3 days ago

China jails journalist for 7 years on espionage charges

Firstpost

Under Chinese law, someone convicted of espionage can be jailed for three to 10 years for less severe cases or receive heavy punishment, including life imprisonment, for serious cases Dong Yuyu was a senior columnist for the Communist party newspaper Guangming Daily. Reuters A Beijing court on Friday sentenced veteran Chinese state media journalist Dong Yuyu to seven years in …

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4 weeks ago

'We lost sight': Russian dissidents have warning for anti-Trump Americans

Raw Story

Miriam Elder, a veteran journalist who reported from Russia for nearly a decade, has interviewed dissident Russian journalists who are delivering warnings to Trump-opposing Americans about growing complacent during his second term. Rather than continuing to fight against Putin, writes Elder, many of these Russian dissidents turned inward and began focusing on improving their own personal lives with little care …

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4 weeks ago

South African dissident writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach dies at 85

Associated Press

JOHANNESBURG — South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach, a staunch opponent of the former white-minority government’s apartheid policy of racial oppression, has died in Paris, his family announced Sunday. He moved to Paris but on a clandestine trip to his home country in 1975 he was arrested on allegations that he assisted Nelson Mandela’s then-outlawed African National Congress group …

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4 weeks, 1 day ago

Vijayendra, internal dynamics led to BJP’s loss in bypolls: Yatnal

Hindustan Times

The Karnataka BJP is under intense scrutiny for its lacklustre opposition against the Congress government, which has faced anti-incumbency sentiment despite being in power for just 18 months. BJP MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal openly criticised the party’s internal dynamics, describing the recent bypoll defeats as “humiliating” and attributing them to “adjustment politics” with the Congress BJP MLA Basangouda Patil Yatnal …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Jailed Belarusian dissident Kalesnikava permitted visit with father

Hindustan Times

Nov 12 - Jailed Belarusian dissident Maria Kalesnikava, a key figure in the opposition movement to President Alexander Lukashenko, was permitted to meet her father on Tuesday, the first time any picture of her has been seen in well over a year. Jailed Belarusian dissident Kalesnikava permitted visit with father A picture of Kalesnikava with her father appeared on the …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

The interest rate cut is good news for mortgage payers – they need more

The Independent

After a turbulent few weeks, the Bank of England delivered a soothing balm to Britain’s hard-pressed borrowers with a quarter-point cut in interest rates. The Budget also pushed the City’s interest rate swaps market higher – and it is this rather than base rates that governs the price of most popular types of mortgage: two or five year fixes. “Borrowers …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Saudi Arabia: A Desert Becomes a Winter Wonderland

Firstpost

Heavy rains and significant hail have swept across parts of the Kingdom's Al-Jawf region, creating a visual spectacle never seen before in the arid landscape. The unusual weather phenomenon is attributed to a low-pressure system spreading from the Arabian Sea to Oman, introducing moisture-laden air into an area typically characterized by dryness, leading to thunderstorms, hail, and rainfall across Saudi …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Germany Warns of Hostage Crisis in Iran as Deadly Execution of German-Iranian National Sparks Outrage

Firstpost

Germany urges its citizens to leave Iran due to the execution of a German-Iranian national, Jamshid Sharmahd. The foreign ministry spokesperson stated that Iran may take German citizens hostage, prompting Germany to close all three of its consulates in Iran and push the European Union to impose sanctions on those responsible for Sharmahd's execution and classify the IRGC as a …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President

Wired

On September 26, 2018, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro approached the lectern at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. In fact, then-president Donald Trump had even mused publicly about exercising “a possible military option, if necessary,” to deal with Venezuela. The day before Maduro’s General Assembly address, Trump stood at the same UN podium, called the situation in …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Dissenting Liberal MPs Demand Trudeau's Resignation

ABP News

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is facing growing internal dissent within his Liberal party, with some dissident Liberal MPs giving him an ultimatum until October 28 to decide on his future. The meeting took place during weekly caucus meetings and served as a platform for MPs to deliver their grievances to Trudeau in person.

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2 months ago

U.S. charges Iran Revolutionary Guard official in alleged plot to kill rights activist in New York

LA Times

An Iranian Revolutionary Guard member and three others allegedly plotted to kill Masih Alinejad, an Iranian dissident who lives in New York. An official with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been charged in a plot to kill an Iranian American author and dissident on U.S. soil, according to a rewritten indictment filed Tuesday. In 2017, the Office of Foreign …

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2 months ago

We can’t stand Musk – but what he did this week is astounding

The Independent

I have a confession to make: for a brief moment this week, I became a fully paid-up Elon Musk fanboy. The photos released on Tuesday to celebrate the fifth test flight of SpaceX’s Starship mega-rocket, which included the catching of the first stage via launch tower “chopsticks” minutes after take-off, were stunning. If only Musk were to focus his attention …

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2 months ago

"Femiphobia" motivates MAGA males: Psychologist Stephen Ducat on the gendered tribalism of Trumpism

Salon

At this point, with fewer than three weeks until Election Day, warning the American people that the election is an existential matter for the future of their democracy and freedom is the equivalent of telling a person who has suffered for years with a chronic illness that they may be unwell. Trump also told Bloomberg News that the Jan.6 attack …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Former Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's memoir says he believed he would die in prison

ABC

Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, who was President Vladimir Putin's top political opponent before his death in February, believed he would die in prison, according to a posthumous memoir that will be published on October 22. Former Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was meant to be included in prisoner swap Photo shows A close-up photo of a man in a gingham …

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3 months ago

Putin must not win the Ukraine war, freed Russian dissident Kara-Murza says

Al Jazeera

Kara-Murza defends prisoner swaps, saying it’s crucial to secure the release of more political detainees in Russia. Western governments and Russia’s exiled opposition should begin laying the groundwork for Russia’s democratic transition after President Vladimir Putin eventually leaves office, Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian opposition politician, has said. Seven weeks after he was released from a Siberian penal colony in a …

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Winter of 1989: The Velvet Revolution in pictures

News orgs retract stories featuring Chinese celebrity dissident after NPR probe

NPR investigation of a Chinese celebrity dissident leads news orgs to retract stories

Karnataka legislature winter session likely to put a lid on groupism in BJP, Congress

Right-wing presenter sentenced to 80 hours of community service for racist comments

Thai dissident jailed for two more years over royal defamation

Toomaj Salehi, Iranian dissident rapper, released from prison

'The first oligarch': Russian dissident warns of 'extremely dangerous' development in U.S.

Trump’s Next Term Could See America’s First True Oligarchs, Warns Democracy Activist Garry Kasparov

China jails journalist for 7 years on espionage charges

'We lost sight': Russian dissidents have warning for anti-Trump Americans

South African dissident writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach dies at 85

Vijayendra, internal dynamics led to BJP’s loss in bypolls: Yatnal

Jailed Belarusian dissident Kalesnikava permitted visit with father

The interest rate cut is good news for mortgage payers – they need more

Saudi Arabia: A Desert Becomes a Winter Wonderland

Germany Warns of Hostage Crisis in Iran as Deadly Execution of German-Iranian National Sparks Outrage

The Untold Story of Trump's Failed Attempt to Overthrow Venezuela's President

Dissenting Liberal MPs Demand Trudeau's Resignation

U.S. charges Iran Revolutionary Guard official in alleged plot to kill rights activist in New York

We can’t stand Musk – but what he did this week is astounding

"Femiphobia" motivates MAGA males: Psychologist Stephen Ducat on the gendered tribalism of Trumpism

Former Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's memoir says he believed he would die in prison

Putin must not win the Ukraine war, freed Russian dissident Kara-Murza says