Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the State Department would deny visas to Palestinian Authority and PLO officials seeking to attend the United Nations General Assembly, preventing Palestinian representatives from addressing the international body. The denial violates the 1947 UN …
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On August 20, 2025, the United States imposed targeted sanctions on four International Criminal Court (ICC) officials, escalating an ongoing campaign to obstruct international judicial proceedings into potential war crimes.
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Four officials sanctioned: Two judges (Kimberly Prost and …
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France’s data protection authority (CNIL) imposed a €20 million fine on Clearview AI - the maximum penalty allowed under GDPR Article 83 - for unlawful processing of biometric data through its facial recognition technology. The CNIL found that Clearview had collected over 20 billion images …
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The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) fined Clearview AI £7.5 million for breaching UK data protection rules by creating an online database of over 20 billion images of people’s faces collected from publicly available sources on the internet and social media without …
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A joint investigation by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and provincial counterparts from Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta concluded that Clearview AI’s scraping of billions of images of people from across the Internet represented “mass surveillance” and was a …
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The European Court of Human Rights issues rulings finding that Romania and Lithuania violated the European Convention on Human Rights by hosting CIA secret prisons where terrorism suspects were tortured. The court conclusively determines that Romania operated a CIA black site from September 2003 to …
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The European Court of Human Rights issues a landmark ruling finding that Poland violated the European Convention on Human Rights by allowing the CIA to operate a secret torture prison on its territory from December 2002 to September 2003. The court conclusively determines that Poland hosted a CIA …
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President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty formally incorporating Crimea into the Russian Federation on March 18, 2014, following a disputed referendum held under Russian military occupation. The annexation, which involved unmarked armed forces seizing key infrastructure and a controversial referendum …
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President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty formally incorporating Crimea into the Russian Federation, following a disputed referendum held under Russian military occupation. The annexation was widely condemned by the international community and led to the first wave of sanctions against Russian …
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President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty formally incorporating Crimea into the Russian Federation, following a disputed referendum held under Russian military occupation. The international community widely condemned the annexation as a violation of international law, including the UN Charter, the …
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President Vladimir Putin signed a treaty formally incorporating Crimea into the Russian Federation following a disputed referendum held under Russian military occupation. Putin claimed Crimea was ‘an inseparable part of Russia’, dismissing international condemnation. The annexation was …
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Vladimir Putin orchestrated the illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, violating international law and multiple treaties. The operation involved deploying unmarked Russian special forces, conducting a disputed referendum, and subsequently integrating Crimean territories into Russian control. The …
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Following the September 11 attacks, President Bush authorizes the CIA to conduct “extraordinary rendition”—the extrajudicial kidnapping and transfer of terrorism suspects to foreign countries for detention and interrogation, often involving torture. CIA Director George Tenet and …
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