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UN rights chief Turk wins second term despite US and Israeli opposition | United Nations News

UN rights chief Turk wins second term despite US and Israeli opposition | United Nations News

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Austrian lawyer Volker Turk set to become first UN rights chief to complete two four-year terms since post was created. Published On 25 Jul 202625 Jul 2026 Volkur Turk, the outspoken United Nations human rights chief who has been a vocal critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza and across the wider region, has won a vote to serve a second term in his role. UN member states voted 144-10, with 13 abstentions, on Friday to keep Turk in his post as UN human rights chief. His term was set to expire on October 11, but he will now serve for an additional four years. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list If he finishes his second term, he will be the first UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to do so since the post was created in 1993. The United States, Israel, Russia, North Korea and six others opposed his re-election. Turk said he was “deeply grateful” to be re-elected. “Human rights are the antidote to today’s turbulence and defeatism. I will give my …

India opposition leader Gandhi freed after detention at student-led protest | Protests News

India opposition leader Gandhi freed after detention at student-led protest | Protests News

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Demands from young people and Cockroach Janta Party pose one of the biggest challenges to PM Modi’s government. Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has been released after he was detained during growing protests over the education system. This comes as opposition parties staged a protest at parliament on Wednesday demanding the resignation of India’s education minister, echoing the demands of student demonstrators. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list The protests, which have been led predominantly by students and a social media-driven movement, the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), have emerged as one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. Protesters have called for the resignation of Modi and Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan after a leak of medical school test papers forced more than two million medical students to retake their exams and was linked to at least 12 student suicides. Gandhi and other opposition leaders were detained on Tuesday during a sit-in outside Modi’s residence in New Delhi while accusing the government of ignoring student demands. They also protested against the …

Deposed Turkish opposition leader plans new party | Elections News

Deposed Turkish opposition leader plans new party | Elections News

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Ozgur Ozel hopes to launch new main opposition after court removed him as leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) . By Reuters and The Associated Press Published On 21 Jul 202621 Jul 2026 Turkiye’s opposition leader Ozgur Ozel has announced a plan to form a new political party after he was ousted from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). Ozel made the announcement in a speech in parliament on Tuesday. Ozel was ousted as leader of his former party by court order in May, amid what the opposition has called a crackdown by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list The former CHP chief said his new political project marked “the hope of a new beginning” in efforts to depose Turkiye’s long-time leader. The new party, whose name has not yet been announced, is expected to trigger an exodus of voters and parliamentarians from the secularist CHP, which was founded more than a century ago by modern Turkiye’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Turkiye’s opposition has been facing a …

O’Leary, Fox News sued over data center opposition portrayal

O’Leary, Fox News sued over data center opposition portrayal

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Businessman Kevin O’Leary and Fox News are being sued by a group opposed to data center construction in Utah, alleging it aired false statements about their funding. The suit, brought against the network and television pundit by Alliance for a Better Utah, Elevate Strategies, Gabrielle Finlayson, Taylor Knuth and Josh Kanter, alleges that O’Leary used the… Source link

Georgian Opposition Politician Sentenced to 13 Years on Terrorism Charge

Georgian Opposition Politician Sentenced to 13 Years on Terrorism Charge

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TBILISI, July 10 (Reuters) – A Georgian opposition ⁠politician ⁠was sentenced to 13 ⁠years in prison on Friday after being ​convicted on a terrorism charge for attempting to set fire to ‌a court building in the ‌capital last year, the Interpress news agency reported. The court ⁠said ⁠Aleko Elisashvili, a founder of the Citizens party, broke into ​Tbilisi City Court’s chancellery building in November 2025 by smashing a window with a hammer, then poured gasoline inside and attempted to ​set the building alight. Elisashvili, who pleaded not guilty and said ⁠he was ⁠protesting against a ⁠government ​crackdown on the opposition, was convicted of attempted terrorism. Once among the most ​democratic and pro-Western ⁠of the successor states to emerge from the Soviet Union, Georgia has become increasingly authoritarian since the start of the war in Ukraine, government critics say. Several opposition politicians are in ⁠prison, and Elisashvili’s party is part of a political grouping that ⁠is facing an outright ban by the ruling Georgian Dream party, which has accused the opposition of trying to foment violent …

Regime supporters and opposition share AI-generated images of Khamenei’s funeral

Regime supporters and opposition share AI-generated images of Khamenei’s funeral

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Pro-regime Iranians flocked to see the body of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as it lay in state in early July. Khamenei was killed on February 28 during the first days of a bombing campaign on Iran carried out by the United States and Israel.  The authorities said that several million Iranians attended the funeral, though these numbers can’t be independently verified.  While many people did attend the funeral, as shown by photos taken by international media outlets, fake images of the event have also been circulating online.   A massive crowd at the Grand Mosalla Mosque? A social media user who often expresses support for the Iranian regime posted a video on July 4 showing an enormous crowd on the grounds of the Grande Mosalla Mosque, an important religious and political site in Tehran, where the supreme leader’s body lay in state. The video garnered more than 370,000 views on X. This video of Tehran’s Grand Mosalla mosque, posted online on July 4, 2026, was generated by AI. Source: X To display this content from X (Twitter), …

Israeli opposition signal foreign policy change in style, but not substance | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Israeli opposition signal foreign policy change in style, but not substance | Israel-Palestine conflict News

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Leading figures from the Israeli opposition have used the country’s prestigious Herzliya Conference to lay out their policy agendas, but analysts and observers noted that their foreign policy positions differ little from those of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling far-right coalition. None of the three main opposition figures – former military Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett, both former prime ministers – offered attendees at Reichman University on Wednesday much criticism of Israel’s recent wars in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list Instead, they chose to criticise Netanyahu for the manner in which those campaigns had been conducted and for what they frame as his subservience to United States President Donald Trump, who seems to have prevented Israel from carrying on its wars in Lebanon and Iran at full intensity. Addressing the conference, Bennett – who will run jointly with Lapid at the next elections – limited his criticism of the Israeli government to his insistence that Israel would fight its wars better: “After a …

Widespread opposition forces Surrey County Council rethink on faith school takeover plan – Humanists UK

Widespread opposition forces Surrey County Council rethink on faith school takeover plan – Humanists UK

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Surrey County Council (SCC) has launched a second consultation on proposals to merge two schools in Guildford, after parents overwhelmingly opposed plans that would have seen a community junior school become part of a Church of England faith school. The decision by the Council to launch a fresh consultation including an option of merging with a school of no religious character, has been welcomed by Humanists UK. The original proposal would have merged Merrow Junior School with Merrow Church of England Controlled Infant School. Despite Merrow Junior School being the larger of the two schools, the merged school would have become a Christian faith school named Merrow Church of England Primary School. The consultation did not offer parents the option of a merged school of no religious character, and described the plan as the ‘only viable option’. This description was challenged by Humanists UK in its consultation response. Newly published consultation results show strong opposition from parents and the wider community. Among parents whose children might attend the merged school in future, 90% opposed the …

Council rethinks faith school takeover amid widespread opposition

Council rethinks faith school takeover amid widespread opposition

Published by Sam Flores

Surrey County Council (SCC) is reconsidering proposals for a Church of England takeover of a nonreligious school amid widespread parental opposition. Earlier this year, SCC consulted on plans which would see the nonreligious Merrow Junior School merged with Merrow CofE Controlled Infant School. Despite Merrow Junior School being the larger of the two schools, the resulting school would be a Christian faith school called Merrow CofE Primary School. The consultation did not include a merged school with no religious character as an option. But newly published consultation results show parents in Guildford overwhelmingly oppose the plan. The plans were also opposed by the National Secular Society and local politicians. In response, SCC has now launched a second consultation which does include a merged school with no religious character as an option. If the faith school takeover did proceed, Merrow CofE Primary could legally discriminate on the basis of religion in hiring, paying and promoting up to one fifth of staff. One quarter of its governors would be appointed by the Church, and its religious education …

R.M.S. Titanic’s Plan to Sell Artifacts at Auction Faces Opposition

R.M.S. Titanic’s Plan to Sell Artifacts at Auction Faces Opposition

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Back in May, R.M.S. Titanic’s plan to bring 100 artifacts recovered from the shipwreck to auction became public. R.M.S. Titanic is the name of the company that owns exclusive sales rights to the notorious shipwreck. The objects in question were among those rescued from the ocean floor in 1987, two years after the wreck was discovered and 75 years after the ship sank in the North Atlantic. Various government entities in the US and France had previously voiced objection to the company’s periodic attempts to sell items from the shipwreck, part of the reason why, according to the New York Times, R.M.S. Titanic requested that court documents related to this latest endeavor remain sealed. (A U.S. District Court judge in Norfolk, Va., which oversees salvage operations, disagreed and made the petition public.) A lawyer for R.M.S. Titanic declined to tell the Times exactly which artifacts they planned to sell. Related Articles A recent Washington Post article gleaned additional information about the proposed sale from newly unsealed court documents. The sale, which still needs to be …