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Gaza Ceasefire Violations Escalate As Israeli Strikes Kill Four

November 20, 2025 6:19 am

Israeli airstrikes killed four people and wounded 18 others in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday, local health authorities said, as Israel and Hamas blamed each other for violations of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire that has lasted nearly six weeks.

The latest attacks struck two towns east of Khan Younis. Medics reported that one strike on a home in Bani Suhaila killed three people, including a baby, and injured 15 others. A second strike in nearby Abassan killed a man and wounded three. Israel’s military confirmed carrying out the strikes but said it had no information on casualties.

The exchange of …

War: Mariupol ‘Horrors’ Will Leave An Indelible Mark – UN

June 17, 2022 4:58 am

A UN rights chief on Thursday asserted that the extent of the growing deaths and destruction in Ukraine’s port city of Mariupol is a serious pointer to international law violations, while also the warning that the horrors would mark future generations.

While speaking before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Thursday, Michelle Bachelet painted an ugly scenario of one of the bloodiest chapters so far in Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.

‘Between February and the end of April, Mariupol was likely the deadliest place in Ukraine,’ she said, in an update on the situation in the strategic port …

Facebook hit with $5b fine over privacy violations

July 13, 2019 3:18 am

The US Federal Trade Commission has voted to approve a fine of about five billion dollars for Facebook over privacy violations, according to a report.

It comes after an FTC investigation into allegations that the social media platform inappropriately shared the information of 87 million users with Cambridge Analytica.

Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting firm, is now closed.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the vote was 3-2 along party lines, with Republicans in support and Democrats in opposition to the fine.

In most cases the Justice Department’s civil …