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Info pollution hurts climate fight
News, Published on 12/06/2025
» The devastation caused by the 2024 flash floods in Valencia, Spain, was so surreal that some images sparked a global debate over their authenticity. In an era when AI technology can produce hyper-realistic fakes, photos showing cars piled haphazardly atop one another in narrow, mud-filled streets seemed almost too shocking to be true. Tragically, these images were all too real.
HRW says TotalEnergies oil project 'a disaster' for Ugandans
AFP, Published on 10/07/2023
» NAIROBI - Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged a halt to a major East African oil project led by French giant TotalEnergies, warning of dire consequences for the environment and local communities.
Twitter hinders 'troll hunters' battling climate denial
AFP, Published on 01/06/2023
» PARIS: For years, a band of science-loving "troll hunters" hounded climate change deniers off Twitter -- but Elon Musk's takeover has upended their efforts, with many ousted accounts back, pushing fresh disinformation.
Bangladsesh police accused of abusing Rohingya
Published on 17/01/2023
» An elite Bangladesh police unit is engaged in the rampant extortion, harassment and wrongful arrests of the Rohingya refugees it has been tasked with protecting, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.
The next cultural guardians
Life, Published on 09/08/2021
» When he was a young boy growing up in North Sumatra, Indonesia, Jakob Siringoringo suffered from a "mental block" of mysterious origin.
YouTube to ban 'hateful,' 'supremacist' videos
AFP, Published on 06/06/2019
» WASHINGTON - YouTube announced Wednesday it would ban videos promoting or glorifying racism and discrimination as well as those denying well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting.
Colombian football rocked by allegations girls were sexually abused
AFP, Published on 10/04/2019
» BOGOTA - A scandal is brewing in Colombian football as allegations of discrimination and sexual abuse targeting teenage girls has shocked the nation.
‘Russiagate' guppy caught in Pattaya sex class dragnet
Published on 28/02/2018
» What ties the “Russiagate” election hacking conspiracy to the recent sex class bust in the City of Sin? Vladimir Putin’s bette noir, Paul Manafort’s “patron” and a "former" lady of the night cum accidental spy, it seems.
Charges officially dropped in 'Torture' book case
Online Reporters, Published on 02/11/2017
» The public prosecutor in Pattani province has finally withdrawn charges that could have sent three civil rights activists to prison for documenting torture by police and the army in the deep South.
Don't mention 'the torture'
News, Published on 29/09/2016
» Police and Labour Ministry officials yesterday threatened to arrest and prosecute three foreign panelists scheduled to launch a report on torture and other ill-treatment in Thailand, for allegedly violating immigration laws.