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Thousands of people across the world showed their support for Palestinians in protests amid some of the worst fighting between Israelis and Palestinians since the 2014 Gaza war, with demonstrators from Canada to Japan waving flags and chanting “Free Palestine” on Saturday. The protests come as tension and violence in the region grows, with at

Instagram removed posts and blocked hashtags about one of Islam’s holiest mosques because its content moderation system mistakenly associated the site with a designation the company reserves for terrorist organizations, according to internal employee communications seen by BuzzFeed News. The mistake is just the latest content moderation failure by Instagram and its parent company Facebook,

At least 30 people have been killed as fighting escalated further on Tuesday between Israel and Hamas, with the Israeli military launching airstrikes into Gaza as the militant group fired rockets into Israel. More than two dozen Palestinians, including women and children, were reported to have been killed in the airstrikes, which also led to

At least seven students and one teacher died in a school shooting in the Russian city of Kazan on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. Four boys and three girls — all of whom were in eighth grade — died in the attack, the Associated Press reported, citing Rustam Minnikhanov, governor of Tatarstan, where Kazan is

The US Department of Justice will waive the death penalty in the case of Craig Lang, an Army veteran who fought with a far-right paramilitary unit in Ukraine and whom authorities have charged in the killing of a married couple in southwestern Florida in April 2018. The case is being watched closely by US officials

At least 20 people have died in Mexico City after an elevated train line collapsed Monday night, according to the city’s mayor. A train belonging to the city’s subway service plummeted to the ground after an overpass caved in. At least 49 people have been taken to the hospital, Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said in a

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Anadolu Agency / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images A worker adjusts a funeral pyre of those who died from COVID-19 during a mass cremation at a crematorium in New Delhi on April 29, 2021. India, a country with 1.4 billion people, has been gripped by a deadly second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. But even

Facebook temporarily hid posts calling for the resignation of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, marking the platform’s latest foray in a series of controversial decisions affecting free speech in a country experiencing a full-blown COVID-19 crisis. On Wednesday, the world’s largest social network said that posts with the hashtag or text #ResignModi “are temporarily hidden

The US will share up to 60 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccines with India and other nations, according to Biden administration officials. The move follows a call on Monday morning between President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Our two nations have suffered greatly,” said a senior Biden administration official during an

As India’s coronavirus pandemic burns out of control, the country’s government is cracking down — on social media. On Thursday, India’s government ordered Twitter to block more than 50 tweets that criticized how it has handled the pandemic. Twitter complied, preventing people in the country from viewing the posts from people who include a state

About 1 in every 3 cases of COVID-19 recorded each day in the world is now in India, where the rate of new infections is growing faster than in any other nation. Posted on April 23, 2021, at 6:27 p.m. ET Rajanish Kakade / AP Healthcare workers carry a patient after a fire in the

Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR Norberto Hernandez and his wife, Olga, have been exiled to the island of Sucunguadup, which they heightened themselves using coral. Panama’s Kuna Yala (San Blas) consists of a long, narrow strip of land and an archipelago of 365 islands, of which 36 are inhabited. Due to the rising sea level,

With an Amazon logo behind him and luminaries from Shanghai’s booming venture capital scene in front of him, the executive onstage delivered his pitch. His company, Renwei Electronics, helps authorities in China track prisoners and detainees — alerting guards to their movements and even fitting them with heart rate monitors. Renwei deploys its “smart prison”

It was another week of fatal and devastating gun violence in America. With people reeling from repeated mass shootings and police killing people in the streets, we took a look at Black Lives Matter protests resuming around the country after the death of Daunte Wright and Thursday’s public release of videos of the March 29

Rep. Elissa Slotkin last week sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking him to take the unprecedented step of designating 13 extremist movements as foreign terrorist organizations, arguing that such a move “will help apply more stress to curtail these violent organizations’ and their leaders’ ability to operate their groups.” But of