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Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro said his opposition rivals and their supporters who took to the street should be jailed for at least 30 years, as he asked the nation’s government-controlled top court to verify his self-declared electoral victory. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Read More: Suspicions Abound as Maduro Named Winner in Venezuela Presidential Election At a press conference at the presidential palace on Wednesday afternoon, Maduro ratcheted up rhetoric against María Corina Machado and Edmundo González, saying they “should be behind bars” for promoting post-election violence and seeking to destabilize his government.

Ismail Haniyeh was killed in a predawn airstrike in Tehran last night. The 62-year-old was not just another senior member of Hamas. He was the head of its political wing since 2017, a key member who initiated and orchestrated most of its strategic moves, and its worldwide representative. If Hamas’ leadership were a deck of cards, Haniyeh was the ace of spades.

A Malaysian festival has filed a lawsuit against British band The 1975 for breach of contract and damages after lead singer Matty Healy protested against Malaysia’s anti-LGBTQ laws during a performance last July. The festival organizers, Future Sound Asia, filed a suit in the U. K. High Court that individually names each band member, and claims that the band’s actions led to the festival being shut down.

In the middle of February 2022, Vice President Kamala Harris flew to Europe for a critical mission on the world stage. Nearly 200,000 Russian troops stood at the borders of Ukraine, and their invasion would mark one of the greatest challenges in decades to the U. S.-led international order. The Biden administration sent Harris to help the Europeans deal with it. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Like every aspect of Harris’s record, her forays into international affairs have faced renewed scrutiny since she became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president.

GENEVA — The U. N. human rights office issued a report Wednesday saying Palestinians detained by Israeli authorities since the Oct. 7 attacks faced waterboarding, sleep deprivation, electric shocks, the release of dogs, and other forms of torture and mistreatment. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The report said Israel’s prison service held more than 9,400 “security detainees” as of the end of June, and some have been held in secret without access to lawyers or respect for their legal rights. A summary of the report, based on interviews with former detainees and other sources, decried a “staggering” number of detainees—including men, women, children, journalists and human rights defenders—and said such practices raise concerns about arbitrary detention. “The testimonies gathered by my office and other entities indicate a range of appalling acts, such as waterboarding and the release of dogs on detainees, amongst other acts, in flagrant violation of international human rights law and international humanitarian law,” said U.

As swimming events unfold in La Defense Arena in Nanterre, questions about doping among Olympic athletes, particularly from China, continue. On July 30, the New York Times reported that two Chinese swimmers, one of whom is competing at the Paris Olympics, tested positive for an anabolic steroid, a banned performance enhancing substance, in 2022 but were allowed to continue competing without sanctions after Chinese anti-doping authorities cleared them. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] It’s just the latest revelation of apparent doping violations that the global athletic community are starting to question.