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Amnesty International dropped a report showing how Cuban authorities systematically target women activists and journalists with gender violence tactics. The practices range from invasive strip searches to threatening family members, with marginalized groups like racial minorities and single...

State attorneys general from both parties are telling Congress to keep AI moratorium language out of the defense spending bill. They dropped a letter warning that federal preemption could stop states from dealing with AI risks like scams and chatbots messing with kids. House Republicans might...

A journalist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo keeps getting threatened by a mayor after his reports criticized her office. The Committee to Protect Journalists wants authorities to step up and protect Michael Tenende, who covers news in Kabinda province. Mayor Anne-Marie Tshiabu started...

Amnesty International went after Germany on Monday for dropping its arms export limits to Israel, saying the move could make Berlin legally complicit in genocide and war crimes. The human rights group pointed out that Israel keeps hammering Gaza while blocking aid, making the German government's...

The EU court just told Poland they have to recognize gay marriages from other member countries, even though Polish law does not allow same sex unions. The ruling came after two Polish dudes got married in Germany and tried getting their marriage registered back home but got shut down because...

Senior associates at UK law firms are the most miserable lawyers around, according to a Chambers report that surveyed over 1600 people. Only 61 percent said they were happy, compared to trainees and partners who both clocked in around 75 percent satisfaction. Two out of five associates want to...

Big law firm Weil Gotshal promoted 17 people to partner with most of them coming from the corporate side. Seven women made the cut, which is about 40 percent of the group and better than their overall gender split. They also bumped 57 lawyers to counsel level. The promotions got spread across...

Opposition figure Tombong Saidy from Unite Movement for Change is calling out the government for lying about how bad the debt situation actually is. Information Minister Ismaila Ceesay basically laughed off concerns when he asked what the big deal was about 2.2 billion dollars worth of debt on a...

Two Gambian forestry officials flew to China for meetings about keeping forests sustainable and went to the big industry conference happening at the same time. Ebrima Jawara and Sisawoh Sabally linked up with reps from other developing countries under a cooperation program funded by the Chinese...

Nigerian businessman Sunday Ainbgaoso got slapped with theft charges for allegedly jacking cosmetics, jewelry and hair shipments worth over a million dalasis from the airport. The guy pleaded not guilty at the Brikama court and posted bail for one million dalasis with three Gambian sureties...

The Gambia Convention Center locked down a partnership deal with Egypt's African Businessmen Association through a virtual signing ceremony. Ambassador Yankuba Dibba from BICC and Dr. Yousrey El-Sharkawi from EABA put their names on the agreement to start working together on continental...

Gambia's London embassy is hunting for a young person to carry its flag at the Westminster Commonwealth Day parade. The gig is open to Gambians between 18 and 29 who are down to represent the country at the massive ceremony. Two women already repped Gambia at recent events. Tida Mata Ceesay...

Gambia's ambassador to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta just dropped off her credentials to the Grand Master in Rome. Fatou Bom Bensouda handed over the paperwork and passed along greetings from President Adama Barrow while talking about building stronger ties with the humanitarian group...

Trans Nzoia Governor George Natembeya had his bodyguards yanked without warning and he's claiming it's straight-up intimidation. The cops pulled his security detail and the officers posted at his Kitale house, even though the guy has been dodging bullets at rallies where gunshots got fired...

Legendary Russian filmmaker Vsevolod Shilovsky died at his theater studio after racking up over 150 credits in movies and TV. The People's Artist kept grinding until the end, teaching students and running what he called his little Moscow Art Theater. Nobody has dropped official details about...

TV host Dmitry Dibrov is apparently seeing nutritionist Katya Guseva after his wife, Polina, left him for some rich younger guy named Roman Tovstik. The weird part is that Guseva was friends with Polina and even belonged to her club before this happened. They started hooking up this fall and...

Actor Ilya Obolonkov from Tolyatti is turning 44 and has been grinding in Russian film and TV for years. He got his break playing cops and military dudes in shows like Platinum, Code of Honor and Molodezhka after starting with bit parts. Dude also did melodramas with actresses like Olga...

Actress Valeria Lanskaya just wrapped her first appearance on the singing competition Duets and said it was wild trying to harmonize when her partner's voice sounded like a cartoon character in her earpiece. The show pairs up celebs who don't find out who they're performing with until the song...

Turkish actress Hande Erçel touched down in Moscow to hype up her new movie, where she plays a lawyer named Bilge who bumps into her old childhood pal Can. She actually helped write the script because she was super invested in getting this story made. The film dropped right around when she...

Some retired teacher in Omsk sold her place for 4 million rubles to Anna Savkina, a single mom with two kids, then immediately claimed she got scammed and refused to leave. The buyer went through a realtor and everything seemed legitimate when they closed the deal at the bank, but the seller...