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“We could not understand what was the basis of using live ammunition to attack people who may have been engaged in an illegal activity, but did not pose threat to life and yet were being fatally targeted for, say smuggling one cow." unbiasthenews.org/growing-up-t...
Growing up too fast: Children struggle with aftermath of state violence in India-Bangladesh border villages - Unbias The News
India and Bangladesh share a 4,000 kilometer-long border, which looms large for children of living alongside it, particularly those whose parents have suffered abuse at the hands of the Border Securit...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
“We could not understand what was the basis of using live ammunition to attack people who may have been engaged in an illegal activity, but did not pose threat to life and yet were being fatally targeted for, say smuggling one cow." unbiasthenews.org/growing-up-t...
"The Brazilian media has become obsessed with Belém’s poverty and underdevelopment – shortcomings that weren’t deemed newsworthy until the urban Amazon became a focus of the world’s attention." unbiasthenews.org/cop-comes-to...
COP comes to the Amazon: Is Belém ‘ready’ for the gringo’s gaze? - Unbias The News
This year’s COP, the UN’s 30th global climate summit, is hosted by Belém. The Brazilian media has become obsessed with Belém’s poverty and underdevelopment – shortcomings that weren’t deemed newsworth...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"The Brazilian media has become obsessed with Belém’s poverty and underdevelopment – shortcomings that weren’t deemed newsworthy until the urban Amazon became a focus of the world’s attention." unbiasthenews.org/cop-comes-to...
"Bwala also said that Nigeria’s government saw Trump’s threats as a negotiating tactic, and added that Nigeria’s government would welcome increased intelligence sharing from the United States." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Trump threat of military action in Nigeria prompts confusion and alarm
Trump also warned of aid cuts over alleged attacks on Christians, though an adviser to Nigeria’s president dismissed the remarks as a negotiating tactic.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
"Bwala also said that Nigeria’s government saw Trump’s threats as a negotiating tactic, and added that Nigeria’s government would welcome increased intelligence sharing from the United States." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
When the Indian government quietly approved projects that would cut through Goa’s ancient forests, an unlikely alliance rose in defiance. Read the latest in Democracy Playbook:
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A beautiful resistance: How art, science and law saved Goa’s forests - Unbias The News
When India quietly approved projects that would cut through Goa’s ancient forests, an unlikely alliance rose in defiance. Young scientists and artists teamed up with veteran lawyers and activists to w...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
When the Indian government quietly approved projects that would cut through Goa’s ancient forests, an unlikely alliance rose in defiance. Read the latest in Democracy Playbook:
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An accident at a Chinese mine poisoned homes and fields in Zambia. The compensation offers came with a catch: Don’t talk about it.
China Pushes to Silence Victims of African Mining Disaster
Toxic waste from a Chinese mine in Zambia washed through homes and fields. Compensation offers are tied to nondisclosure.
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October 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
An accident at a Chinese mine poisoned homes and fields in Zambia. The compensation offers came with a catch: Don’t talk about it.
New: A community investigation in suburbs of Paris and Barcelona tracked indoor temps and found them soaring above the heat on the street or other parts of the city. Will urban inequality drive health risks from heatwaves? unbiasthenews.org/twenty-degre...
Twenty degrees apart: How urban inequality drives indoor heat in Paris and Barcelona - Unbias The News
While European cities face record-shattering heat, not all residents are affected equally. Indoor heat sensors show scorching temps in areas with lower-income housing, causing deadly health risks.
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October 27, 2025 at 10:40 AM
New: A community investigation in suburbs of Paris and Barcelona tracked indoor temps and found them soaring above the heat on the street or other parts of the city. Will urban inequality drive health risks from heatwaves? unbiasthenews.org/twenty-degre...
'They allege that officers, dressed in ‘full combat gear, often masked, carrying weapons, bearing flash grenades and tear gas canisters…have repeatedly advanced upon those present at the scene who posed no imminent threat to law enforcement.’ www.axios.com/2025/10/06/d...
"Journalism is not a crime": Chicago reporters sue Trump over violence at ICE protests
Press groups say Trump's agents used force to silence reporters.
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October 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
'They allege that officers, dressed in ‘full combat gear, often masked, carrying weapons, bearing flash grenades and tear gas canisters…have repeatedly advanced upon those present at the scene who posed no imminent threat to law enforcement.’ www.axios.com/2025/10/06/d...
"The biggest group affected by these deportations are unsheltered migrants – basically, those living on the streets – from Central and Eastern Europe, mainly Poland and Romania."
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The Price of Clean Streets: How the Netherlands Deports Homeless Eastern Europeans
Deportations of unsheltered EU migrants, mainly from Poland and Romania, are on the rise in the Netherlands. Some experts and NGOs regard the policy as barely legal; others argue it gives the often-ad...
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October 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"The biggest group affected by these deportations are unsheltered migrants – basically, those living on the streets – from Central and Eastern Europe, mainly Poland and Romania."
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"A major new investigation traced dozens of EU payments to farms that have breached, are under investigation for, or have already been convicted of labour-related offences."
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Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse
This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...
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September 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
"A major new investigation traced dozens of EU payments to farms that have breached, are under investigation for, or have already been convicted of labour-related offences."
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For decades, Moroccan immigrants have called La Cañada Real home. Now, real estate speculators are closing in on the informal settlement. But women are fighting back.
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Community in La Cañada Real: The women defending Spain’s biggest informal settlement - Unbias The News
For decades, Moroccan immigrants have called La Cañada Real home. Now, real estate speculators are closing in on the informal settlement. Authorities are starving the community of basic infrastructure...
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September 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
For decades, Moroccan immigrants have called La Cañada Real home. Now, real estate speculators are closing in on the informal settlement. But women are fighting back.
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Artists and photographers own copyright to their content, and can sue if its reproduced without consent. Then why is it so difficult for OnlyFans creators to ensure their content isn't stolen?
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Consent violated: how creators pay the price for stolen OnlyFans content - Unbias The News
Up against a platform and police who seem to view abuse as inevitable, OnlyFans creators are fighting back against online harassers who gamify stealing and distributing their copyrighted material.
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September 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Artists and photographers own copyright to their content, and can sue if its reproduced without consent. Then why is it so difficult for OnlyFans creators to ensure their content isn't stolen?
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The Playbook: How underdog CHP made a comeback and shook up Turkish politics unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...
Building from the base: How Turkey's opposition mounted a comeback - Unbias The News
Imprisoned since March, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu is considered the greatest threat to Erdogan's power in decades. But how did Imamoglu and the CHP mount the comeback that electrified Turkish poli...
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September 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The Playbook: How underdog CHP made a comeback and shook up Turkish politics unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...
The fall of Assad brings into focus the tenuous place of 1.4 million Syrians in Europe. From legal and logistical barriers to the complexities of lives and identities split between different cultures, many Syrians are also grappling with their relationship to home.
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Caught between two worlds: Syrians in Europe grapple with the right to return - Unbias The News
Since the Assad regime fell in December 2025, Europe’s 1.4 million Syrian refugees have been navigating the legal, emotional and security challenges of going back to a country they thought they may ne...
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August 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The fall of Assad brings into focus the tenuous place of 1.4 million Syrians in Europe. From legal and logistical barriers to the complexities of lives and identities split between different cultures, many Syrians are also grappling with their relationship to home.
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A migrant-led movement has used tactics from theatre to unionization to demand equal rights and dignity for those doing society’s most undervalued labor. unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...
"From pity – nothing; from dignity – everything": How domestic and care workers changed Spanish labor law - Unbias The News
A migrant-led movement has used tactics from theatre to unionization to demand equal rights and dignity for those doing society’s most undervalued labor. They’ve appealed to the highest levels of EU j...
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July 14, 2025 at 10:11 AM
A migrant-led movement has used tactics from theatre to unionization to demand equal rights and dignity for those doing society’s most undervalued labor. unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...
India’s recent deportation drive targeting its Muslim minority was marked by home demolitions, arbitrary detentions, allegations of torture and a lack of due process.
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In India’s deportation drive, Muslim men recount being tossed into the sea
India’s recent deportation drive targeting its Muslim minority was marked by home demolitions, arbitrary detentions, allegations of torture and a lack of due process.
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July 11, 2025 at 3:37 PM
India’s recent deportation drive targeting its Muslim minority was marked by home demolitions, arbitrary detentions, allegations of torture and a lack of due process.
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Ever since sanitary workers were attacked, trash is piling up in Bamenda, Cameroon causing health problems, stifling business, and generally showing how conflict can poison every part of public life.
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Unsolved conflict and uncollected trash: In Bamenda, Cameroon's Anglophone crisis is spilling onto the streets - Unbias The News
In Bamenda, the capital of Northwest Cameroon, a physical reminder of the Anglophone Crisis is visible on the streets: uncollected trash. Residents must navigate sights and smells that deter business,...
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July 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Ever since sanitary workers were attacked, trash is piling up in Bamenda, Cameroon causing health problems, stifling business, and generally showing how conflict can poison every part of public life.
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Critics warn the law would hinder the search for truth about the victims of Peru’s decades-long armed conflict.
New amnesty law for human rights abuses in Peru prompts fury, action
Critics warn the law would hinder the search for truth about the victims of Peru’s decades-long armed conflict.
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July 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Critics warn the law would hinder the search for truth about the victims of Peru’s decades-long armed conflict.
"The comments came in response to a U.N. report released last month that alleged technology firms including Google... had profited from “the genocide carried out by Israel” in Gaza by providing cloud and AI technologies to the Israeli government"
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin calls U.N. ‘transparently antisemitic’ after report on tech firms and Gaza
Google co-founder Sergey Brin called the United Nations “transparently antisemitic” in a message on a company forum, after a U.N. report alleged Google profited from Israel’s war in Gaza.
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July 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"The comments came in response to a U.N. report released last month that alleged technology firms including Google... had profited from “the genocide carried out by Israel” in Gaza by providing cloud and AI technologies to the Israeli government"
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In Karachi, where monsoon season often means days without electricity, flooded roads and property damage, is rain truly a rehmat (blessing) from nature or ongoing zehmat (misery) for city dwellers?
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Rehmat or Zehmat? Learning to Cope with Trauma From Rain in a Pakistani Metropolis - Unbias The News
In Karachi, Pakistan where monsoon rain often means days without electricity, flooded roads and property damaged, at the end of the day is it truly a rehmat (blessing) from nature or ongoing zehmat (m...
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July 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
In Karachi, where monsoon season often means days without electricity, flooded roads and property damage, is rain truly a rehmat (blessing) from nature or ongoing zehmat (misery) for city dwellers?
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"Since the start of his second term, however, his administration has leaned less on climate denial and more on what might be called climate dismissal: diminishing, ridiculing or rejecting the idea that climate change is worth any effort to study or try to slow."
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America’s New Language of Climate Denial
The Trump administration has moved from outright denying the science of global warming to simply dismissing it.
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June 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Since the start of his second term, however, his administration has leaned less on climate denial and more on what might be called climate dismissal: diminishing, ridiculing or rejecting the idea that climate change is worth any effort to study or try to slow."
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“We used to joke that there is an energy, a spirit of Roșia Montană. Once it gets hold of you, there is no escape. I wasn’t the only one who experienced this transformation. Many others lived this too.”
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June 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
“We used to joke that there is an energy, a spirit of Roșia Montană. Once it gets hold of you, there is no escape. I wasn’t the only one who experienced this transformation. Many others lived this too.”
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Ever heard of Rosia Montana in Romania? Miriam Tepes-Handaric shows how decades of creative resistance, lawsuits, and mass protest across the country have staved off powerful mining concerns determined to turn this ancient village into a cyanide pit unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...
Our mountains of gold shall be green: The fight to protect Romania’s Rosia Montana - Unbias The News
Plans for Europe’s largest open-pit gold mine in Romanian commune Roșia Montană galvanized all layers of Romanian society, from villagers to presidents. The two-decade fight against a project that aim...
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June 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Ever heard of Rosia Montana in Romania? Miriam Tepes-Handaric shows how decades of creative resistance, lawsuits, and mass protest across the country have staved off powerful mining concerns determined to turn this ancient village into a cyanide pit unbiasthenews.org/democracy-pl...
“A failure,” the judge wrote in court documents about the delayed alert. The deaths and devastation “all occurred amid the clear inaction of the regional administration.”
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Valencia’s flood was a catastrophe. Was it also a crime?
In exploring a potential criminal trial, Spain is now testing how far a democracy can go in holding officials accountable after a natural disaster.
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June 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“A failure,” the judge wrote in court documents about the delayed alert. The deaths and devastation “all occurred amid the clear inaction of the regional administration.”
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Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.
Starved in Jail
Why are incarcerated people dying from lack of food or water, even as private companies are paid millions for their care?
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June 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Sarah Stillman investigates a widespread crisis of deaths by starvation in America’s county jails. Most of the victims she identified had been arrested in the midst of a mental-health crisis, often on petty charges tied to their psychiatric distress.
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BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.
![Plaintiffs' [103] Motion for Class Certification is DENIED WITHOUT PREJUDICE
as to the Criminal Custody Class and GRANTED as to the CECOT Class with
modifications. The latter Class shall be defined as follows:
All noncitizens removed from U.S. custody and transferred to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador on March 15 and 16, 2025, pursuant solely to the Presidential Proclamation entitled, "Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua"; and
3. By June 11, 2025, Defendants shall submit a Notice to the Court advising how they
intend to facilitate the ability of the CECOT Class to seek habeas relief.
Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 147 Filed 06/04/25
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June 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.