Iran likely to be ousted from UN women’s body over bloody crackdown
Vote on draft resolution will give indication of global unity against regime’s suppression of protests
Global solidarity against Iran’s bloody crackdown on a women-led protest movement will be tested on Wednesday, as world powers vote on whether to oust the country from a UN body tasked with empowering women.
Activists and rights groups say Tehran’s role in the 45-member commission on the status of women is a farce, considering the regime’s forces have beaten and killed women peacefully calling for gender equality.
The UN economic and social council (Ecosoc), which oversees the commission, will gather in New York to consider a US-drafted resolution to remove Iran “with immediate effect”.
Iran has been removed from the UN Commission On Women's Rights
Inside the final days of Twitter 1.0: How Elon Musk razed us to the ground
Io Dodds reports on the true human cost of Twitter’s layoffs, the employee rights that were trampled over, and the chaos that ensued in offices across the world when Musk took the helm
One by one, Amir Shevat’s team members were disappearing.
It was past midnight in Austin, Texas on Friday November 4th, and the 46-year-old software engineer found himself unable to sleep as he waited to discover which of the workers he managed would be fired from Twitter.
Employees had been braced for massive layoffs ever since Elon Musk took over the troubled social media company, and had been told to expect a final decision the next day.
Instead, the cuts began ahead of schedule on Thursday night, when Shevat’s colleagues suddenly began vanishing from the company messaging channel – each profile going grey as their work computers were remotely "bricked", or made inoperable.
Erdogan rival sentenced to jail for insulting officials
A Turkish court sentenced the mayor of Istanbul, a key opponent of President Erdogan, to two years and seven months in jail and barred him from politics. Erdogan is renowned for liberal use of laws against "insults."
A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu to two years and seven months in prison for insulting members of Turkey's Supreme Electoral Council.
Imamoglu is a key opponent of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who recently hinted that he would run for reelection next year for the last time.
The court also imposed a politicial ban on Imamoglu that could lead to him being removed from office and would be even more likely to rule him out from standing in next year's presidential election, assuming the verdict stands.
Hamas to end Israel prisoner exchange talks unless progress soon
Hamas will end talks on securing a prisoner exchange with Israel unless there is progress soon, the militant group's leader in the Gaza Strip said Wednesday.
"In the face of the occupation's (Israel's) stalling on this issue, we announce that we give them a limited time to finalise this deal," Yahya Sinwar, Hamas chief in Gaza, said during a rare public appearance.
"Otherwise, we will close the case of the four enemy prisoners from the side of the resistance forever," he added, at a rally marking the 35th anniversary of the group's establishment.
Covid cases explode in Beijing leaving city streets empty and daily life disrupted
Empty streets, deserted shopping centers, and residents staying away from one another are the new normal in Beijing – but not because the city, like many Chinese ones before it, is under a “zero-Covid” lockdown.
This time, it’s because Beijing has been hit with a significant, and spreading, outbreak – a first for the Chinese capital since the beginning of the pandemic, a week after leaders eased the country’s restrictive Covid policy.
The impact of the outbreak in the city was visible in the upmarket shopping district Sanlitun on Tuesday. There, the usually bustling shops and restaurants were without customers and, in some cases, functioning on skeleton crews or offering takeout only.
Grant Wahl: 'Nothing nefarious' in journalist's death during World Cup
The wife of Grant Wahl, the American journalist who died after collapsing in a World Cup press box, says there was nothing untoward in his death.
Wahl, 48, had described feeling pressure in his chest in the days before Friday's quarter-final between Argentina and the Netherlands.
Celine Gounder, Wahl's wife, said a New York autopsy discovered a bleed around his heart.
"There was nothing nefarious about his death," she added.
"The chest pressure he experienced shortly before his death may have represented the initial symptoms.
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