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Day: January 31, 2018

Women in Iran are ripping off their…
31Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Arab world, Featured

Women in Iran are ripping off their…

    Young women in Iran are part of a new generation of activists as they protest their country’s restrictive dress code. Following the example of one woman who became a symbol of popular protest in December, Iranian women now are standing on telecoms boxes and removing their headscarves. At least six images of women removing their hijabs in public appeared across social media Monday. A hashtag about women’s role in social change, roughly translating to #GirlsofRevolutionStreet, was also trending on Iranian Twitter. The images are part of the social movement called White Wednesdays, in which women post pictures of themselves on social media wearing white headscarves or pieces of white clothing in protest. Some Iran experts said that the protests have succeeded in pres...
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UK’s mass surveillance powers ruled illegal
31Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

UK’s mass surveillance powers ruled illegal

    The UK may be forced to scale back its digital mass surveillance of citizens after a court ruled today that its current powers are unlawful. The UK’s Court of Appeal ruled that the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA) allowed police officers to authorize their own access to citizens phone records and web browsing history even in the case of non-serious crimes. According to a report from The Guardian, three appeal court judges ruled that the law did not adequately restrict access to this personal information and so was inconsistent with EU law. DRIPA was passed into law in 2014 as emergency” legislation, with parliamentary debate restricted to just a single day of discussion. The law paved the way for 2016’s Investigatory Powers Act, which authorized...
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Helicopter crash kills 3 near homes in Southern California
31Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
America, Featured

Helicopter crash kills 3 near homes in Southern California

    A helicopter crashed into a house in a Newport Beach, California, neighborhood Tuesday, leaving at least three people dead and two others injured, the Newport Fire Department said. Fire Chief Chip Duncan confirmed the fatalities. CBS Los Angeles reports that one of the deceased was a person on the ground. Newport Beach Police said four people were believed to be onboard when the chopper went down, but nobody was inside the home where the chopper went down. Two people were rushed to the hospital. Their conditions are unknown at this time. We tried to pry them out but we didn't want to touch them, the neighbor said, who was not identified. We didn't want to take a chance of hurting anybody. The three people were all crunched in there together, he said. One I could s...
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Britain First deputy blamed for death
31Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Britain First deputy blamed for death

    A mother has told a court that she blames the deputy leader of Britain First for the death of her stillborn daughter. Kelli Best said she was alone with her two children, aged three years and 18 months, when Fransen came to her home and shouted racist abuse through the front door. The 31-year-old came with the intention of directing the comments at Ms Best's partner, Tamin Rahmani, a Muslim man facing trial for rape, Folkestone Magistrates' Court heard. Fransen is accused of hate crimes alongside the leader of the far-right group Paul Golding, 36. On a video played in court, Fransen could be seen banging on the door and shouting: Come out and face me you disgusting rapist, come on. Miss Best sat shaking and crying in the witness stand as the footage was played. ...
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UK and China won’t see eye-to-eye
31Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Asia, Featured

UK and China won’t see eye-to-eye

    The UK and China will not always see eye-to-eye, Theresa May said on the eve of a three-day trade visit where she said she would underline the importance of a rules-based approach to economic expansion. The prime minister’s warning before her visit to Wuhan, Beijing and Shanghai suggests she will attempt to walk a tightrope between championing a new post-Brexit era of free trade alongside coded suspicion of President Xi Jinping’s flagship Belt and Road initiative, a $900bn (£636bn) global infrastructure project which has political designs to bring neighbouring countries closer into Beijing’s orbit. Her visit, accompanied by 50 business leaders, also comes amid a deteriorating human rights situation in mainland China, growing alarm over the erosion of Hong Kong’s pol...
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