International

The rise of ultra-nationalist president marks worrying trend for Turkey

The rise of ultra-nationalist president marks worrying trend for Turkey

A violent and repressive leader has recently risen to power in Turkey, in one of the most contentious elections seen in the country for some time. President Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP (Justice and Development Party) has been widely criticised for his reign of terror after threatening violence against those who did not vote for him. The press, political rivals and police[Read More…]

Facebook photos to be used in surveillance database

Facebook photos to be used in surveillance database

Australia said it will allow Facebook and Instagram photos to be used as part of its national surveillance database. Senior officials from the attorney general’s office have confirmed that the government are also monitoring Facebook photos. Some AUS$18.5 million (£8.62 million) will be spent on the National Facial Biometric Matching Capability database, which would retain still images that authorities could[Read More…]

Max Igan

Activist Max Igan attacked after Pro-Palestine speech

Australian activists and radio show host Max Igan was viciously beaten after calling for the human rights of Palestinians. Mr Igan, who runs the website TheCrowhouse.com, described how the attack “came from nowhere” after he delivered the Pro-Palestine speech at the 2015 Freedom Summit in Australia. He suffered several blows to the back of the head and kicks to the[Read More…]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Netanyahu says Israel “will live by the sword”

During a speech at the Israeli Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he will retain all of the colonised land from Palestine. This means that for the foreseeable future, Israel will retain full military control over all of the occupied territories, which dismisses the prospects of Palestinian statehood. In a bizarre move, the Israeli[Read More…]

The incident is alleged to have taken place at the Paris’s police headquarters on the Seine

French police officers charged with gang-rape

Officers at the centre of a rape scandal in France are set to undergo DNA testing, it has been revealed. Two policemen are already facing charges after a Canadian tourist reported being attacked at the police headquarters on Quai des Orfèvres. About 100 officers and staff at Paris’s police headquarters on the Seine are to be DNA tested this week[Read More…]