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Ford Foundation Promotes Rebecca Cokley to Program Director for U. S. Disability Rights
4+ hour, 47+ min ago (289+ words) Our work around the world Evaluation of Ford's BUILD Initiative Disability Rights Moves Forward Featured News and Stories Reflections on Democracy: Of, By, and For the People Ford Foundation Adds $60 Million in New Funding to Strengthen Democracy About the Ford…...
Zimbabwe Constitution Amended to Extend President's Term
19+ min ago (205+ words) Law Gives Mnangagwa 2 More Years in Office, Ends Popular Vote for President Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa signed a'law on July 7 amending the constitution to extend presidential terms from five to seven years. The amendment,'approved by parliament last month, also…...
UN probe says mass killings, rapes, abductions, starvation by Sudan force amount to genocide
43+ min ago (396+ words) GENEVA, July 8 (Reuters) " Sudan's RSF forces carried out mass killings, abductions of women and girls, mass gang rapes and forced starvation in a city they besieged and captured last year, "as part of an intentional policy amounting to genocide, a…...
Poll: Do you support having Flock cameras in your city or town?
37+ min ago (116+ words) (WJAR) " The debate over the use of Flock cameras across the U. S. is heating up. Police say the technology helps track down violent criminals and locate missing people. But concerns about how the data collected by the Flock cameras is stored…...
LGBTIQ+ School Guidelines Near Completion, but Concerns Grow Over Lack of Legal Force - Mamba Online - LGBTQ South Africa online
13+ min ago (733+ words) Activists have expressed concern that South Africa's much-needed and long-awaited national LGBTIQ+ school guidelines will not be binding or enforceable. On Tuesday, IOL News reported that the Department of Basic Education had confirmed that the finalisation of the guidelines was…...
AI Surveillance Is Being Supercharged'And It Will Chill Social Progress
1+ hour ago (127+ words) The Citizen Lab In an op-ed for The Guardian, senior research fellow Jon Penney and co-author Bruce Schneier argue that widely deploying AI surveillance could be corrosive to democracy and social progress itself. Citing Penney's new book, Chilling Effects, they…...
Occupied Oleshky have been under blockade since May 26: thousands of people without food and medicine
9+ hour, 4+ min ago (353+ words) In the occupied Oleshky in the Kherson region, no food or medicine has been brought in since 26 May, departures for civilians have almost stopped, and the humanitarian situation is deteriorating, according to the head of the Oleshky city military administration…...
"Looks like Lagos": Traders flee as protests tensions rise in Mzansi
1+ hour, 4+ min ago (173+ words) Informal traders in the Johannesburg city centre were caught on camera fleeing with their stock packed into large bags on 8 July 2026. The video, posted by X user @khal_juniier, spread rapidly online and reignited a fierce national conversation about foreign nationals and…...
Monroeville turns out in force to spar over library's Pride display removal
1+ hour, 19+ min ago (511+ words) Monroeville residents showed up in force Tuesday evening after outcry over the removal of a Pride Month display at the Monroeville Public Library. The furore deepened when councilors Mike Adams (Ward 5) and Bob Williams (Ward 6) joined Krut to ask municipal…...
Interview with Ambassador Lagumdzija: The Srebrenica Resolution Will Be Implemented as long as the United Nations Exists
5+ hour, 22+ min ago (1567+ words) The international day of commemorating the Srebrenica Genocide is part of global remembrance. At the same time, lobbying, denial, glorification of the war crimes, and alliteration of history. In a world without empathy, who are the friends of the multiethnic…...