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A United Nations human rights panel has issued a damning report that blames the United States and seven other nations for the C.I.A.'s torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of a Saudi prisoner who now awaits a death penalty trial at Guantanamo Bay.The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention also named as responsible the United Arab Emirates, where the prisoner, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was captured in 2002, and Afghanistan, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Romania and Thailand, where he was held as part of a rendition and interrogation program run by the George W. Bush administration.

Every now and then, it's important to watch Fox News in prime time.No, not because the programs are particularly good or because the hosts tell their audience the truth.Fox is writing Dominion Voting Systems a $787.5 million check for very good reasons, and it still faces a multibillion-dollar lawsuit from Smartmatic over the channel's election reporting.

The official deployment ceremony for a South Carolina Army National Guard brigade that includes Michael Haley, the husband of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, is set to take place Saturday in Charleston.The ceremony is scheduled to be held at The Citadel military college ahead of the brigade's deployment to Africa in support of the United States Africa Command.

Here's a look at the life of George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States.Birth date: July 6, 1946 Birth place: New Haven, Connecticut Birth name: George Walker Bush Father: George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States Mother: Barbara (Pierce) Bush Marriage: Laura (Welch) Bush (November 5, 1977-present) Children: Barbara and Jenna (November 25, 1981) Education: Yale University, B.A., 1968; Harvard Business School, M.B.A., 1975 Military: Texas Air National Guard, F-102 fighter pilot, 1968-1970 Religion: Methodist After John Quincy Adams, George W. Bush is the second president to be the son of a previous president.

Rishi Sunak's pledge to clear a backlog of asylum decisions by the end of this year is on course to fail after the annual cost of Britain's asylum system hit 3.6bn, a watchdog has revealed.The National Audit Office (NAO) said Home Office officials had internally warned that the pledge is in doubt, with urgent action required as costs soared amid an accommodation crisis, unrealistic targets, staffing issues and highly uncertain assumptions made by the government.

As the marble-clad, cube-like Perelman Performing Arts Center has taken shape at the World Trade Center site, questions have swirled about what will actually happen inside.Some answers came on Wednesday, when the center announced a first year of programming that will feature original work, including the premiere of an autobiographical play written by and starring the actor Laurence Fishburne called Like They Do in the Movies, as well as partnerships, including with the Tribeca Festival.

Image Credit...Illustration by Jacqueline Tam In the early 2010s, California endured a very severe drought that killed millions of trees and fueled horrific wildfires.That was followed by a total reversal in 2017, the state's second-wettest year on record, which caused landslides, evacuations and $1 billion in damages to roads and highways.

A committee of British lawmakers said Sunday that the U.K. will break its international human rights commitments if it goes through with government plans to detain and deport people who cross the English Channel in small boats.Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights said the Illegal Migration Bill breaches a number of the U.K.'s international human rights obligations and risks breaching others.

Rescuers remove rubble at the maternity ward of the Vilniansk Multidisciplinary Hospital in Ukraine, one of the countries experiencing an increase in violence against health care workers.Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images In conflict zones around the world, violence and threats against hospitals, health care facilities and their personnel reached a grim milestone in 2022, according to a new report from the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC).

Rescuers remove rubble at the maternity ward of the Vilniansk Multidisciplinary Hospital in Ukraine, one of the countries experiencing an increase in violence against health-care workers.Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images In conflict zones around the world, violence and threats against hospitals, health-care facilities and their personnel reached a grim milestone in 2022, according to a new report from the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC).

The US State Department identified a rapidly growing and troubling trend of forced labor as a result of cyber scam operations, as it launched its annual human trafficking report, US Ambassador at Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons Cindy Dyer said Thursday.Traffickers have leveraged pandemic-related economic hardships, increased global youth unemployment, and international travel restrictions to exploit thousands of adults and children in a multi-billion dollar industry over the last two years in these schemes, she said at a State Department briefing.

Contrary to popular opinion, Britain is a country with few asylum seekers, in contrast with its comparable neighbours.Last year, it recorded 74,751 asylum applications.While this was the highest annual number for Britain since 2002, France had more than double that number and Germany more than three times as many.

As Ukrainian commanders gear up for a pivotal counteroffensive to push Russian forces back in Ukraine's war, 23-year-old Vadym, a military recruit from Kyiv, says he wants to be on its front lines, even if it means losing his life.We're going to die, probably, Vadym said bluntly, as he trained on Friday at a military camp in Yorkshire, England.

Close your eyes.Picture Mark Zuckerberg.What do you see?Perhaps you envision the Meta boss and Facebook founder in a gray T-shirt, spotlighted on a Silicon Valley stage.Maybe his cartoonish metaverse avatar hovers before you with legs, or without them.Possibly Jesse Eisenberg, the bony actor who played the fledgling tycoon in The Social Network (2010), appears in your mind's eye.

The case had been called Australia's trial of the century.And though it centered on a claim of defamation, it grappled with a more consequential question: Was the country's most decorated living soldier a war criminal?On Thursday, a judge effectively found that the answer was yes.Four years after the soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, sued three newspapers that had accused him of killing unarmed Afghan prisoners in cold blood, the judge ruled against him in his defamation case, finding that the newspapers had proved their accounts of his actions were substantially true.

The fiancee of a former British soldier who was killed in a car crash in Ukraine has told how she had made a wedding ring on the day she was told of his death.Louise Lathbury has set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for repatriating Julian Thorn's body from the war-torn nation, hoping to raise 15,000.

The US military is set to launch a formal investigation into a drone strike in Syria in early May, six weeks after the operation and following reports it killed a civilian rather than a senior al-Qaeda leader as first claimed, three defense officials familiar with the matter told CNN.The anticipated opening of the more formal inquiry, known as a 15-6, is the clearest sign yet that US Central Command may have botched the drone strike in northwest Syria on May 3. In the immediate aftermath of the strike, Gen. Erik Kurilla, the commander of Central Command, and his staff had high confidence that they had targeted and killed a senior al-Qaeda leader.

Ben Roberts-Smith arrives at the Federal Court in Sydney, on June 9, 2021.Australia's most decorated living war veteran, Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith, committed a slew of war crimes while in Afghanistan, including the unlawful killings of unarmed prisoners, a judge ruled on Thursday, June 1, 2023.

A 10-year-old girl was rescued after being separated from her family during a walk in the Cascade Mountains in Washington State.She spent the night alone in the cold but was found the following day, and is being praised for her resourcefulness at such a young age.According to CNN, 10-year-old Shunghla Mashwani was visiting the Cle Elum River Valley with her extended family when she got separated from the group as they crossed over the river bridge to eat lunch.

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Julian Assange has lost the latest stage of his bid to appeal against a judge's ruling over whether he should be extradited to the US.The WikiLeaks founder is wanted in the United States over an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following the publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Julian Assange has lost the latest stage of his bid to appeal against a judge's ruling over whether he should be extradited to the US.The WikiLeaks founder is wanted in the United States over an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following the publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.