Trump attacks Biden over pardons, promises ‘a lot of action’ on January 6 prosecutions Donald Trump, who appears to be speaking without prepared remarks, is attacking Joe Biden’s decision announced earlier today to pardon the new president’s political enemies. “I was going to talk about the things that Joe did today with the pardons of…
David Beckham urges World Economic Forum to fight for girls’ rights Next up to receive a Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum tonight is David Beckham. WEF’s Hilde Schwab explains that Beckham is receiving a crystal award for his “extraordinary leadership and humanitarianism in promoting and protecting the rights of the world’s most vulnerable…
An Indian police volunteer has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a junior doctor at the hospital where she worked in Kolkata, a crime that sparked nationwide protests and widespread hospital strikes last year. The court rejected demands for the death penalty, saying it was not a “rarest-of-rare” crime….
The international criminal court is bracing itself for Donald Trump to launch aggressive economic sanctions against it this week, amid fears such a move could paralyse its work and pose an existential threat. ICC officials are preparing for Trump’s new US administration to act quickly once in office to impose draconian financial and travel restrictions…
University of Sydney staff and students would be banned from holding banners on campus without prior permission and staff would be unable to send political emails unless recipients had expressed prior interest under a string of draft policies introduced before the academic year. In 2024, the sandstone institution introduced a “draconian” protest crackdown that required…
Australia’s new anti-slavery commissioner has called on the government to urgently address the “inadequacy” of its forced labour laws after revelations that it had allowed thousands of imports from Chinese companies blacklisted for their alleged links to Uyghur workers. Guardian Australia revealed on Monday that Australia had received thousands of imports from Chinese companies blacklisted…