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Cambodia defends family relocations around the famous Angkor Wat temple complex

Mar. 04, 2024 05:44 AM EST

BANGKOK (AP) — Cambodia is rejecting allegations it violated international law by evicting people living around its famous Angkor Wat temple complex, saying in a report to UNESCO released Monday that it was only relocating squatters and not residents of more than 100 traditional villages. ...

What's life like for Russia's political prisoners? Isolation, poor food and arbitrary punishment

Feb. 27, 2024 00:09 AM EST

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Vladimir Kara-Murza could only laugh when officials in Penal Colony No. 6 inexplicably put a small cabinet in his already-cramped concrete cell, next to a fold-up cot, stool, sink and latrine. That moment of dark humor came because the only things he had to...

A rights group says Senegal's security forces have killed at least 3 people during protests

Feb. 13, 2024 09:13 AM EST

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Security forces in Senegal have killed at least three people, including a 16-year-old boy, during protests in recent days denouncing the president's decision to delay elections, Amnesty International said Tuesday. The rights group in a statement said...

Madagascar law allowing castration of child rapists prompts criticism from rights groups

Feb. 11, 2024 14:04 PM EST

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar (AP) — Madagascar's Parliament has passed a law allowing for the chemical and, in some cases, surgical castration of those found guilty of the rape of a minor. The law has prompted criticism from international rights groups, but also found support from activists who say...

Post-World Cup, Qatar is pressing ahead with labor reforms but concerns for migrant workers remain

Feb. 10, 2024 08:10 AM EST

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — When Qatar hosted the World Cup a little over a year ago, the wealthy emirate faced intense scrutiny over its human rights record, especially the treatment of migrant workers who helped build the glitzy stadiums. The issue has faded to the background as Qatar...

What to know about how lawmakers are addressing deepfakes like the ones that victimized Taylor Swift

Jan. 31, 2024 16:39 PM EST

Even before pornographic and violent deepfake images of Taylor Swift began widely circulating in the past few days, state lawmakers across the U.S. had been searching for ways to quash such nonconsensual images of both adults and children. But in this Taylor-centric era, the problem...

Zimbabwe opposition figure gets suspended sentence after nearly 2 years in pretrial detention

Jan. 30, 2024 12:54 PM EST

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A Zimbabwe opposition figure who spent nearly two years in pretrial detention is set be freed after a magistrate sentenced him to a suspended prison sentence on Tuesday for inciting violence. Job Sikhala, an outspoken official with the main opposition...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise buying Juniper Networks in deal valued at about $14 billion

Jan. 10, 2024 09:07 AM EST

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is buying Juniper Networks in an all-cash deal valued at about $14 billion, which is anticipated to double HPE's networking business. Shares of both companies rose before the market open on Wednesday. A Wall Street Journal report about a potential deal saw...

Myanmar's military should be investigated for war crimes, Amnesty International says

Dec. 21, 2023 10:06 AM EST

BANGKOK (AP) — The human rights group Amnesty International on Thursday accused the Myanmar military of indiscriminate killings, detaining civilians, and using air-dropped cluster munitions in response to an insurgency in the northeast and west, and demanded an investigation into...