US Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok The court rules unanimously that the law did not violate free speech protections. TikTok logo has said it will go dark on Sunday if it doesn’t get a last minute reprieve [File: Dado Ruvic/Illustration/ Reuters] Published On 17 Jan 202517 Jan 2025 The US Supreme Court has refused…
Djokovic ‘big fan’ of Collins’s Melbourne crowd response; Alcaraz advances Novak Djokovic, who is on course to face Carlos Alcaraz, backs Danielle Collins’s kisses to hostile spectators. Novak Djokovic of Serbia points to someone in the Melbourne crowd as he celebrates winning match point against Tomas Machac of the Czech Republic on January 17, 2025…
Macron urges Israel to accelerate troop withdrawal from southern Lebanon France’s Emmanuel Macron is the first foreign head of state to visit Beirut since Joseph Aoun was elected as Lebanon’s president. French President Emmanuel Macron, left, meets his Lebanese counterpart, Joseph Aoun, at the presidential palace in Baabda, Lebanon [Ludovic Marin/AFP] Published On 17 Jan…
Most of Gaza’s buildings and landscape are in ruins after 15 months of Israel’s war.
Colombia’s Petro suspends talks with ELN rebels Move comes in response to ELN attacks in country’s northeast, which President Gustavo Petro describes as war crimes. Colombian President Gustavo Petro previously promised ‘total peace’ in the South American country [File: Leonardo Fernandez Viloria/Reuters] Published On 17 Jan 202517 Jan 2025 Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced…
Can a ceasefire end settler colonial genocide? The ceasefire deal clinched on Wednesday may end the latest episode of mass slaughter in Gaza, but it won’t halt the structural genocide of Palestinians. Muhannad Ayyash Professor of Sociology at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Canada. Published On 17 Jan 202517 Jan 2025 Houses destroyed in Israeli…
Gaza ceasefire won’t last without political process, warn analysts The Israeli government has repeatedly sought to back out of truce deals, and this time could be no different, experts say. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected Gaza ceasefire deals in the past [File: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters] By Mat NashedPublished On 17 Jan 202517 Jan 2025…
Biden grants clemency to 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug crimes Outgoing US president says move is ‘important step toward righting historic wrongs, correcting sentencing disparities’. ‘With this action, I have now issued more individual pardons and commutations than any president in US history,’ Biden says [File: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo] Published On 17 Jan…
Start Here Gaza ceasefire deal, explained | Start Here Will the ceasefire deal lead to a permanent end to Israel’s war on Gaza? What’s in the Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas and what are some of the challenges to the deal holding? #AJStartHere with Sandra Gathmann explains. This episode features: Diana Buttu |…