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Fifa Under Pressure After Scores of Migrant Worker Deaths Revealed Amid Saudi’s World Cup Building Boom

RIYADH — Wednesday, May 8, 2025 Dozens of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia have died in gruesome and avoidable workplace incidents as the country accelerates construction for the 2034 FIFA World Cup, according to a new report by Human Rights…

Tufts Turkish Student-Activist Vows Continued Legal Action After Release from Immigration Detention

BOSTON — Saturday, May 6, 2025 Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk has returned to Boston, one day after being released from a Louisiana immigration detention center where she had been held for more than six weeks. Öztürk, a 30-year-old…

Memphis Police Officers Acquitted in Fatal Beating of African-American After Running Away from Traffic Stop

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Wednesday, May 7, 2025 A Tennessee jury has acquitted three former Memphis police officers of all state charges — including second-degree murder — in the fatal beating of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols, whose death after a traffic stop…

Fake Bomb Threat Used to Clear Pro-Palestinian Protesters from Barnard College Library

NEW YORK CITY — Wednesday, May 1, 2025 Police evacuated Barnard College’s Milstein Center on Wednesday following a bomb threat that interrupted a pro-Palestinian sit-in protest, prompting the arrest of multiple demonstrators and sparking renewed tensions on the upper Manhattan…

Health Fears Grow for Imprisoned British-Egyptian and Mother Over Hunger Strike Demanding Freedom

Monday, April 28 – LONDON/CAIRO – The family of imprisoned British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah has raised alarm over his deteriorating health and that of his mother, Laila Soueif, as both continue prolonged hunger strikes demanding his release from Egyptian…

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