HAVANA — Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, a veteran Cuban dissident who never left the island despite being imprisoned twice and accused of being a United States agent, will be awarded the 2024 International Women of Courage Award, the U.S. Department of State said Friday. Roque, 78, who spent decades protesting against her country’s single-party model, … Read more
A U.S. airman died after setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 25 in order to protest what he called a “genocide” of Palestinians in the Israel-Hamas war. Aaron Bushnell’s action is part of a long and controversial history of self-immolation as political protest. In the past, … Read more
MOSCOW — For the hundreds of political prisoners in Russia’s brutal penitentiary system, word of the death of the country’s most prominent jailed dissident, Alexei Navalny, took days to arrive — and carried a terrifying, if obvious, reminder: None of them are safe. News of Navalny’s sudden death on Feb. 16 in an Arctic penal … Read more
Will Stancil, a man who’s made a name for himself online as a feisty defender of Joe Biden and Democratic policies, announced Wednesday that he’s running for a seat in the Minnesota House of Representatives. But Stancil says social media platforms like X aren’t going to be a very important part of his upstart campaign. … Read more
Lionel Messi sought to draw a line under controversy about his failure to play in a football match in Hong Kong earlier this month, saying his absence wasn’t due to political reasons and he has great affection for China. In a video statement released on Chinese social media late Monday, the Inter Miami star said … Read more
Political observers in India have long warned against political finance as a vehicle driving corruption in the world’s biggest democracy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the general elections, where opacity in political funding and the murky flow of funds have often benefited the party in power. It has also contributed to the soaring … Read more
Donald Trump made an appearance at Sneaker Con in Philadelphia on Saturday to announce a new website that sells Trump-branded sneakers for as much as $400. But if you take a close look at the fine print, this isn’t part of Trump’s effort to become president again. It’s purely a way for Trump to make … Read more
These days, we hear a lot about all the safeguards Gemini and ChatGPT have in place. But all you need to do is gaslight them and they’ll spit out anything you need for your political campaign. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future Tech Gizmodo was able to get Gemini and ChatGPT to write … Read more
NEW DELHI — In what could be a serious blow to India’s richest and most dominant political party, the Supreme Court struck down a type of anonymous political donations on Thursday, just ahead of a national election this summer. The country’s elections have become the most expensive in the world, even surpassing America’s notoriously pricey … Read more
NEW DELHI — India’s top court on Thursday struck down a controversial election funding system that allowed individuals and companies to send unlimited donations to political parties without the need to disclose donor identity, a system critics have long said is undemocratic and favored Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party. A five-judge constitution bench on … Read more