Topic: Human Rights — Neutral reports only
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[2026-09-19 06:38 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A conservative parents’ group known for targeting diversity and equity programs in schools has filed a federal civil rights complaint against Oakland Unified School District, claiming the district discriminates on the basis of race and sex by offering targeted programs for Latino boys and youth of color.
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[2026-09-19 05:34 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The Kasau family, with support from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), petitioned the Jerusalem District Court Thursday for permission to establish a protest tent near the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in the Government Complex in Jerusalem from September 23 to October 22, 2026, according to an announcement released Friday.
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[2026-09-19 04:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Authorities imposed an overnight curfew in Nigeria's central city of Minna on Friday after security forces opened fire as hundreds of people took to the streets to protest against the deaths of 37 detainees in the custody of a paramilitary force.
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[2026-09-19 01:49 UTC+10:00] [Nigeria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Police fire teargas as protests break out in city of Minna after deaths of suspected illegal goldminers
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[2026-09-19 01:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Security forces in Nigeria have opened fire and deployed tear gas during protests over the deaths of 37 miners in custody.
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[2026-09-19 01:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The United States has the sovereign right to deny entry to particular individuals on legitimate security or legal grounds, whether they are Palestinian, Israeli, or of any other nationality. Yet a broad restriction directed at an entire people would be neither wise nor constructive.
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[2026-09-18 22:00 UTC+10:00] [Democrats] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The party needs to thread the needle between college-educated and working-class voters. Our survey offers a way
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[2026-09-18 20:45 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Syria has announced it will offer lower-cost diesel for heating, agriculture and industry, days after demonstrations erupted across the country over a fuel price rise.
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[2026-09-18 20:19 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: I think of it as a blast from the past. Ahead of Yom Kippur, which starts on Sunday night, I was reminded of the British Mandate period when the authorities, fearing Arab protests, banned the sounding of the shofar at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
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[2026-09-18 19:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: See more of our coverage in your search results.
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[2026-09-18 14:00 UTC+10:00] [Editors' Pick] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: Raphael Reyes/Rappler
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[2026-09-18 13:28 UTC+10:00] [Latest] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Duran
Snippet: Switch to the dark mode that's kinder on your eyes at night time.
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[2026-09-18 08:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: As summer enters its final days, attention turns to why early-year anti-ICE protests and riots in Minneapolis did not develop into a sustained nationwide wave of unrest comparable to the 2020 BLM riots. Those demonstrations created a potential flashpoint, but protests failed to spread like wildfire across left-wing-controlled cities - in what could have only been a 2020 redux of the "Summer of Love" Marxist revolution.
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[2026-09-18 05:46 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: A teacher holds an empty pot during an anti-government protest in La Paz, Bolivia, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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[2026-09-18 03:32 UTC+10:00] [Eurovision] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Ireland joins joins Dutch broadcaster in refusing to take part in 2027 song contest, in second consecutive year of protests
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[2026-09-18 02:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: As Israel enters election season, digital deception threatens not only the truth, but the ability of citizens to make a free and informed democratic choice.
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[2026-09-17 23:52 UTC+10:00] [Cooperation] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Politico
Snippet: ATHENS — Greece’s parliament voted Thursday to lift the immunity of ex-commissioner and current New Democracy lawmaker Dimitris Avramopoulos after Belgian authorities issued an arrest warrant in connection with the Qatargate scandal.
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[2026-09-17 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: The 87 “architects” of the Islamic Republic’s brutal crackdown on the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests must face international justice to deter the regime from carrying out similar acts of violent suppression in the future, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death and the day the NGO released a more than 1,000-page report documenting how Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity.
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[2026-09-17 22:26 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: The RNLI said it hoped to have the lifeboat station operational again as soon as possible
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[2026-09-17 22:16 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: UN investigators also said Tehran had ramped up the use of ‘repressive laws’ and ‘lethal force’ to quell protests over rising living costs
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[2026-09-17 22:16 UTC+10:00] [United Nations] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: UN investigators also said Tehran had ramped up the use of ‘repressive laws’ and ‘lethal force’ to quell protests over rising living costs
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[2026-09-17 22:04 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: A UN-backed fact-finding mission has said that the Iranian government's crackdown on the 2025-2026 protests involved gross violations that amounted to crimes against humanity.
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[2026-09-17 19:19 UTC+10:00] [Europe] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Rappler
Snippet: URSULA VON DER LEYEN. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attends a press conference with Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Technological Sovereignty, Security, and Democracy Henna Virkkunen (not pictured) to present the EU Kids Act, in Strasbourg, France September 17, 2026.
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[2026-09-17 15:03 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Israeli hi-tech entrepreneur Eyal Waldman warned that Israel could face serious political and economic consequences if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wins the upcoming election, telling Maariv that continued political instability could drive more skilled Israelis to leave the country.
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[2026-09-17 12:11 UTC+10:00] [ASIA PACIFIC] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Japan Times
Snippet: Arch rivals and nuclear-armed neighbors India and Pakistan traded blame over a collision between their warships at sea, summoning each other’s top diplomats to lodge “strong” protests and adding another point of friction between the duo.
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[2026-09-17 10:56 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Violent protests have erupted in Serbia’s breakaway region of Kosovo and abroad after a Hague-based special tribunal convicted former politician and paramilitary commander Hashim Thaci of war crimes.
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[2026-09-17 03:15 UTC+10:00] [Democracy] [Factuality: 95]
Source: ProPublica
Snippet: This week, the Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s plans to impose new rules for mail-in voting for the midterm elections in November.
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[2026-09-17 00:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Fighters with the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units, or YPJ, stand during a funeral ceremony for prisoners who died in a fire that broke out during unrest at the local prison following days of tensions and protests in the predominantly Kurdish city of Kobani, northern Syria, Monday, Sept. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)
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[2026-09-16 22:39 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Amnesty International has called for the arrest of 87 Iranian officials for "crimes against humanity" over their involvement in cracking down on the 2022 Woman Life Freedom protests.
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[2026-09-16 19:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Four years after Mahsa Amini was murdered by the Islamic Republic, sparking Iran’s ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests, survivors of the 2022 uprising spoke to The Jerusalem Post about the young Kurdish woman’s enduring memory, what they witnessed during the crackdown and how the events changed their lives.
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[2026-09-16 19:35 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The National (UAE)
Snippet: Security chiefs in Iran responsible for crimes against humanity during a violent crackdown on nationwide protests in 2022 continue to control a “deadly state machinery of repression”, Amnesty International has said.
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[2026-09-16 19:00 UTC+10:00] [Party funding] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: I’ve seen how imbalances in campaign spending can distort democracy. The multi-million-pound gifts to Reform must act as a final wake-up call
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[2026-09-16 17:59 UTC+10:00] [European Union] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Von der Leyen then turns to the issue of democracy in Europe.
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[2026-09-16 14:00 UTC+10:00] [Russia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: As Russians vote this weekend, remember that Britain is not immune to the cynical tactics and corrosion of trust that keep him in power
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[2026-09-16 13:22 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: RT News
Snippet: Democracy in the US has fallen to its lowest levels in 50 years as a wider global decline weakens the rule of law and raises the risk of conflict, according to a new study.The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) said on Tuesday that nearly half of the 30 measures it uses to assess US democracy have deteriorated to levels not seen since its records began in 1975.“The USA is experiencing a period of marked democratic decline,”
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[2026-09-16 12:46 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Subpoenas will be used to force the world leader of the Exclusive Brethren and his son to answer questions in front of a parliamentary inquiry about the church’s covert, multimillion-dollar “influence campaign” favouring the Coalition at the last federal election, if they refuse to give evidence voluntarily.
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[2026-09-16 12:10 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Zero Hedge
Snippet: Syria's fuel price hike protests have persisted from Sunday into the heart of this week, and increasingly they are becoming full on anti-Sharaa regime demonstrations. Of course Sharaa - whose al Qaeda/ISIS name is Jolani - was never elected in the first place.
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[2026-09-16 10:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Cisco Systems likely violated the civil rights of Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim employees, a federal agency has found, after employees were subjected to harassing messages, some of them posted by employees in an internal forum called the Connected Jewish Network.
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[2026-09-16 06:21 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: People march during a protest organized by opposition parties against constitutional changes proposed by President Felix Tshisekedi, in Kinshasa, Congo, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Samy Ntumba Shambuyi)
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[2026-09-16 03:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: Protests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have spurned violent clashes as police cracked down.
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[2026-09-16 02:33 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Britain said on Tuesday it would upgrade its diplomatic relations with Venezuela, appointing an ambassador to the country, in a move which it said would strengthen its ability to play a role in supporting a transition to democracy.
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[2026-09-16 01:52 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Al Jazeera
Snippet: The United States is accelerating the global weakening of the rule of law, according to a new report that found nearly half of the indicators used to measure American democracy have fallen to their lowest levels in 50 years.
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[2026-09-15 22:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Palestinian citizens of Israel have begun daily protests against an outpost established by settlers from the occupied West Bank in the heart of a Palestinian-majority town in the Galilee.
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[2026-09-15 21:23 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Palestinian citizens of Israel have begun daily protests against an outpost established by settlers from the occupied West Bank in the heart of a Palestinian-majority town in the Galilee.
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[2026-09-15 21:00 UTC+10:00] [Politics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The TUC has issued the statement from its general council on the funding of political parties. It is not calling for caps on donations, but it does warn of the danger of “out of control” political spending and urges the government “to protect our democracy from being captured by the super-rich”.
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[2026-09-15 15:58 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AfricaNews
Snippet: Serbia’s student movement has submitted its “Student List – Students Win” to the Republic Electoral Commission (RIK), after thousands of supporters marched through central Belgrade to the commission’s headquarters. Students carried boxes of signatures gathered in recent days in a bid to qualify for the ballot. The move comes after nearly two years of protests triggered by the collapse of a railway station canopy in Novi Sad on 1 November 2024, which killed 16 people.
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[2026-09-15 09:01 UTC+10:00] [Trump administration] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Trump administration undermining rule of law at home and worldwide, according to intergovernmental report
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[2026-09-15 03:17 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Mahmoud Khalil speaks during a news conference in New York, July 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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[2026-09-15 01:05 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Syria is facing a wave of protests over the price of fuel. The protesters have blocked roads, and videos show them burning tires and other debris. Reuters reported that “Syria's government on Saturday raised diesel prices by 40% to 175 Syrian pounds ($1.32) a litre.” This is expensive for Syrians who are trying to recover from years of war and reconstruct their country.
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[2026-09-14 22:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Middle East Eye
Snippet: Protests have erupted across several parts of Syria after the government sharply increased fuel prices, with demonstrators blocking major roads, burning tyres and calling for the energy minister's resignation as anger grows over the rising cost of living.
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