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Crackdown on dissent after nationwide protests in Iran widens to ensnare reformist figures

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian security forces have launched a campaign to arrest figures within the country's reformist movement, reports said Monday.

That widens a crackdown on dissent after authorities earlier put down nationwide protests in violence that killed thousands and saw tens of thousands more detained.

Detained Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has received another prison sentence of over seven years. It signals a widening effort to silence anyone opposed to the bloody suppression of unrest by Iran's theocracy as it faces new nuclear... Read More

Israel's president visits Sydney's Bondi Beach massacre site and meets victims' families

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Israel President Isaac Herzog started a state visit Monday aimed at consoling grieving Australian Jews and improving bilateral relations by laying a wreath and stones at the site of an antisemitic attack in Sydney that left 15 dead.

Herzog met victims’ families and survivors of the attack on a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach on Dec. 14. Only one of the two alleged gunmen survived the following gunbattle with police. Naveed Akram has been charged with committing a terrorist act, murdering 15 people and wounding another 40 in Australia's worst mass... Read More

China critic and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai is sentenced to 20 years in a Hong Kong security case

HONG KONG (AP) — Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city’s dissent.

Lai, 78, was convicted in December of conspiring with others to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security, and conspiracy to publish seditious articles. The maximum penalty for his conviction was life imprisonment.

His co-defendants, six former employees of his Apple... Read More

Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 jumps after a landslide victory for PM Takaichi's ruling party

BANGKOK (AP) — Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 share index jumped as much as 5% to a record on Monday after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s governing party secured a two-thirds supermajority in a parliamentary election.

The landslide victory gives Takaichi a much stronger mandate to pursue market-friendly policies, though the impact on Japan's currency and bond markets may not be quite so positive.

"So overall, as the LDP has gone from a very weak government that really couldn’t do anything to an extremely strong government now with the supermajority of the lower... Read More

Arguments to begin in landmark social media addiction trial set in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The world's biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening arguments for the first, in Los Angeles County Superior Court, begin this week.

Instagram's parent company Meta and Google's YouTube will face claims that their platforms deliberately addict and harm children. TikTok and Snap, which were originally named in the lawsuit, settled for undisclosed sums.

“This was only the first case — there are hundreds of parents and school... Read More

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Crackdown on dissent after nationwide protests in Iran widens to ensnare reformist figures

Israel's president visits Sydney's Bondi Beach massacre site and meets victims' families

China critic and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai is sentenced to 20 years in a Hong Kong security case

Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 jumps after a landslide victory for PM Takaichi's ruling party

Arguments to begin in landmark social media addiction trial set in Los Angeles

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