2024-12-25: News Headlines

John Kiriakou, Consortium News. (2024-12-25). Cellphone Seizures And The Courts. popularresistance.org After years of conflicting decisions by federal district courts across the country on whether Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents can search your cell phone and laptop at ports of entry, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that, "the routine inspection and search of a traveler's electronics, or for that matter, any other type of property, at the border may be conducted without a warrant, probable cause, or even individualized suspicion of wrongdoing." | In reaching the decision, the court agreed with several other circuit courts, but put itself at odds with others and many (lower) federal distri…

newarab (2024-12-25). Stray animals seen eating Palestinian corpses in northern Gaza. newarab.com Even in his nightmares, Emad Abu Ras, a "I was frozen in my place and did not realise what should I do […] If I tried to pull the bodies away from the stray animals, the Israeli drones [quadcopter] would attack me and kill me," the 42-year-old father of four remarked to The New…

Alina Ramos Martin (2024-12-25). Torturers from the dictatorship sent to prison in Uruguay. plenglish.com Montevideo, Dec 25 (Prensa Latina) The Uruguayan court ordered the prosecution of three retired military officers accused of torturing 39 teenagers in April 1975, during the dictatorship that reigned here, it was announced.

newarab (2024-12-24). Stray animals seen eating Palestinian corpses in northern Gaza. newarab.com Even in his nightmares, Emad Abu Ras, a "I was frozen in my place and did not realise what should I do […] If I tried to pull the bodies away from the stray animals, the Israeli drones [quadcopter] would attack me and kill me," the 42-year-old father of four remarked to The New…

Maureen Clare Murphy (2024-12-24). Is UN torture expert overlooking Israeli abuses? electronicintifada.net Palestinian human rights groups say they've been ignored by Alice Jill Edwards.

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