Diageo Settles Disputes With Rapper Diddy

[ad_1] Jan. 16, 2024 10:24 am ET Diageo said it has reached an agreement with Sean “Diddy” Combs, after the rapper accused the group of racial discrimination and alleged it…

Brazil Embraces Its Black Roots

[ad_1] RIO DE JANEIRO—Growing up in Rocinha, one of Brazil’s biggest slums, Maxwell Alexandre was reluctant to call himself Black. His mother, a Black woman herself, would have none of…

Greece set to legalise same-sex marriage with backing by opposition

[ad_1] A plan to legalise same-sex civil marriage and adoption pushed by the centre-right Greek government is set to be approved by Parliament thanks to the backing of the left-wing…

Opinion | Give Yahya Sinwar the Eichmann Treatment

[ad_1] Two top Palestinian commanders—Hezbollah’s Wissam Hassan Al-Tawil and Hamas’s Saleh al-Arouri—were both killed over the past two weeks in suspected Israeli airstrikes. Hamas’s figurehead and the suspected mastermind of…

Troubling gap between EU promises and actions on human rights – report

[ad_1] The European Union “persistently failed” to act on its human rights commitments in 2023, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT The watchdog’s latest annual report lists “repressive” migration policies,…

US biotech company halts sales of DNA kits in Tibet, as lawmakers mull more export controls on China

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. biotech company has halted sales of its DNA testing products in the Chinese ethnic region of Tibet, as lawmakers mull export controls to keep…

World’s Top Meat Supplier Should Not Join NYSE, UK Lawmakers Urge

[ad_1] A group of UK lawmakers is planning to push the US Securities and Exchange Commission to block listing JBS SA, the world’s largest meat supplier, on the New York…

Israel Presses Egypt to Better Secure Borderland Against Hamas Smugglers

[ad_1] Updated Jan. 7, 2024 5:52 pm ET Israel and Egypt are negotiating the future of a corridor between Egypt and Gaza that Israel says has been used by Hamas…

Mass killer tries to sue Norway for alleged human rights breach

[ad_1] Norway’s most prolific peacetime killer is claiming his prison life in solitary confinement is illegal. ADVERTISEMENT Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in a…

New EU business supply chain rules hand free pass to financial sector

[ad_1] STRASBOURG — EU institutions on Thursday backed ambitious rules to compel companies to safeguard the environment and human rights in their supply chains, but a carve-out for financial institutions…