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Nepal internet crackdown part of global trend toward suppressing online freedom

Nepal’s crackdown on social media companies, which led to protests and police killing at least 19 people Monday, is part of a yearslong decline of internet freedoms around the world as even democracies seek to curtail online speech.
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D1 college football player booted from team after allegedly swiping…

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Brazil’s Supreme Court nears a verdict in coup plot trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro

A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices is expected to decide this week whether former President Jair Bolsonaro is guilty or not of plotting to stay in power illegally after his 2022 election defeat.
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Workers’ daily commute to Mexico City ends in tragedy in fatal train-bus collision

Authorities in Mexico say a train has collided with a double-decker bus northwest of Mexico City, killing at least 10 people and injuring more than 50.
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ICC opening its war crimes case against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony

International Criminal Court prosecutors will present evidence to back up charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony at the global court’s first in absentia hearing.
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US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China

An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known.
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Backpage executives to be sentenced after testifying against site founder about the site’s sex ads

Two former executives for the now-shuttered classified site Backpage.com are scheduled to be sentenced in Phoenix for conspiring to facilitate prostitution by selling sex ads.
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