Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner Dunja Mijatovic called for the immediate release of a gay rights activist in Poland on Saturday, saying the detention sent a “chilling” signal. The order to detain the activist for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LBGT) rights for two months “sends [a] very chilling signal for freedom of speech […]

A Beirut judge has ordered the detention of the director of Lebanese customs and a port director, after the massive blast which ripped through the capital city’s port. This is according to a report by the Lebanese National News agency. Tuesday’s explosion killed 154 people and injured more than 4,000, according to the Health Ministry, […]

Lebanon’s president Friday rejected any international probe into the catastrophic port blast, saying a missile or negligence could have been responsible as rescuers desperately combed the rubble for survivors. The entrenched ruling class has come under fire once again since Tuesday’s explosion, which killed at least 154 people and devastated swathes of the capital. The […]

The United States slapped sanctions Friday on Hong Kong’s leader after effectively forcing Chinese internet giants TikTok and WeChat to end all US operations, in a twin diplomatic-commercial offensive set to grow ahead of US elections. In the toughest US action on Hong Kong since Beijing imposed a security clampdown on the territory, the Treasury […]

United States (US) intelligence officials believe that Russia is using a variety of measures to denigrate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ahead of the November election and that individuals linked to the Kremlin are boosting President Donald Trump’s reelection bid, the country’s counterintelligence chief said in the most specific warning to date about the threat […]