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Earlier this week Tennis Canada said the games between Canada and Israel will be played in a closed venue without spectators, citing safety concerns flagged by local authorities and security agencies. CBC | Sports News
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Hong Kong cancels passports, bans financial support for wanted overseas activists
Hong Kong authorities on Monday strengthened a crackdown on 16 overseas-based activists who were previously targeted by bounties on suspicion of endangering national security, implementing measures that include banning financial support to them and cancelling passports for most of them. CBC | World News
Read More »Palestinians, human rights activists slam Israeli defence minister’s plan to build camp on Rafah’s ruins
Critics expressed alarm Tuesday after Israel’s defence minister said he plans to move all Palestinians in Gaza into a camp at the southern tip of the war-battered enclave, according to Israeli media, with some saying it would violate international law and amount to crimes against humanity. CBC | World News
Read More »Palestine Action sets up website to recruit activists after terror ban
Commenting on the arrest of Reverend Sue Parfitt, an 83-year-old retired priest the Metropolitan Police commissioner said that the law “doesn’t have an age limit”. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Far Left reaches new low as anti-Zionism blinds activists to evils of Iran
Swathes of the Western Left have found themselves some very strange bedfellows. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Israeli forces halt Gaza-bound aid boat, detain Greta Thunberg and other activists
A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists arrived at an Israeli port Monday after Israeli forces stopped and detained them — enforcing a longstanding blockade of the Palestinian territory that has been tightened during the Israel-Hamas war. CBC | World News
Read More »WATCH | Palestinian activist’s deportation a ‘violation of free speech,’ says advocate
A U.S. judge has ruled the Trump administration can deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate detained last month for his role in pro-Palestinian protests. Will Creeley, legal director at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, called the decision a ‘clear violation’ of First Amendment principles related to free speech. CBC | World News
Read More »Greenpeace activists climb Foreign Office building over signing of ocean treaty
Four protesters unfurled a banner as they suspended themselves on columns on the King Charles Street Archway in Westminster early on Thursday morning. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Activists call on Canada to help Afghan women facing deportation due to Trump administration cuts
Activists are calling on the Canadian government and universities to let Afghan women studying under U.S.-funded scholarships to come to Canada, warning the students could face dire and potentially life-threatening consequences if they return to a country under Taliban rule. CBC | World News
Read More »Just Stop Oil activists storm West End play starring Sigourney Weaver – two arrested
Actress Sigourney Weaver was forced to stop a performance of The Tempest as Just Stop Oil protestors stormed on stage. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
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