News of Sophia’s citizenship was announced at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. “I am very honored and proud for this unique distinction,” Sophia said in an interview with moderator Andrew Ross Sorkin. “This is historical to be the first robot in the world to be recognized with a citizenship.” Sophia […]
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Time to End Birthright Citizenship
Donald Trump took a lot of heat when he announced his candidacy for President, stating that he would build a border fence from San Diego to Brownsville and make Mexico pay for it, all to keep Mexico’s “unwanted” and “undesirables” from flooding the United States. In August 2015, on the campaign trail, he shed light […]
Israel occupation revokes Israeli Arabs’ citizenship
Israeli occupation has revoked citizenship of thousands of Palestinians (known as Israeli Arabs) in southern region of Al-Naqab (Negev) in the past two years, Israeli daily Haaretz revealed Friday. According to the newspaper, the Israeli Interior Ministry has changed the status of these Israeli Arabs from “citizens” to “inhabitants,” which has led to the forfeiture […]
Israel revokes citizenship of Palestinian for disloyalty
Charlotte Silver Rights and Accountability 7 August 2017 Alaa Zayoud Adalah In an unprecedented step, an Israeli court has revoked the citizenship of 23-year-old Alaa Zayoud for “breach of loyalty.” The human rights groups that will appeal the decision to Israel’s high court warn the move is a violation of international law. In June 2016, […]
Racist Israeli court revokes citizenship of Arab driver
In a racial measure, Haifa Magistrate’s Court in Israel revoked citizenship of wounded Arab driver who was shot by Israeli forces before running over Israeli soldier. The court responded to a request from the racist Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, who accused the Arab driver –Palestinian in Israel are called Arab citizens– of carrying out […]
Israel revokes citizenship of Arab-Israeli terrorist for 1st time
Alaa Raed Ahmad Zayoud’s Israeli citizenship was revoked Sunday by the Haifa Magistrate’s Court. The man had been convicted on four counts of attempted murder and sentenced to a 25 year prison term in June last year. In October 2015, Zayoud drove his vehicle into an IDF soldier before getting out and stabbing three civilians […]
Poroshenko Strips Ex-Georgian President Saakashvili of Ukrainian Citizenship
Saakashvili resigned from the position of the Odessa region governor on November 7, 2016, citing Kiev’s reluctance to fight corruption as the reason for his resignation and accusing the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko of protecting the criminals. “The President of Ukraine has issued a decree on stripping [Saakashvili] of Ukrainian citizenship… Materials on Saakashvili, provided by the General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine, processed by the State Migration Service […]
Ukraine suspends Saakashvili’s citizenship
nsnbc : Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree to suspend former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili’s Ukrainian citizenship. Saakashvili is a fugitive from justice […]
Marine Le Pen Vows To Grant Citizenship To Assange And Snowden
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has vowed that France will grant protection in the form of citizenship to Edward Snowden and Julian Assange when she is victorious in the general election. The brave move to protect Julian Assange, a free speech hero and beacon of light in these dark times for journalists, could not have been more timely, after […]
‘Don’t touch me’: Swedish police offer anti-sexual assault wristband
Swedish police have revealed that they will offer young women wristbands with the slogan “POLICEAVSPÄRRAT #tafsainte” [Police cordon, don’t grope] in Swedish, to prevent sexual assaults. “By wearing these wristbands, young women will be able to make a stand. No one should have to accept sexual molestation. So do not grope. And if you are […]
Turkish aid ship reaches Gaza following reconciliation deal with Israel
Turkish aid ship sails to Gaza after talks with Israel ‘largely lift’ blockade The Lady Leyla container vessel, carrying more than 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip, reached the Israeli port of Ashod after departing on Friday from the Turkish city Mersin, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported Sunday. It took Lady Leyla 35 […]
Leader’s top aide: Disintegration of Syria prevented by Iran’s timely assistance
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Supreme Leader’s top adviser for international affairs Ali Akbar Velayati underlined that Syria would have been disintegrated if Tehran had not taken action in support of the Arab country’s fight against the terrorist groups. “The western states, headed by the US, created turmoil in Syria since the beginning to overthrow the Syrian […]
Ankara apologizes to Moscow over downing Russian jet
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has apologized to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over Ankara’s shooting down of a Russia’s military jet last year which shattered ties between the two countries. In a statement released on Monday, Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Putin had received a letter from Erdogan “in which the Turkish leader expressed […]
Iranian FM, Afghan president meet in Tashkent
Moscow, June 24, IRNA – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on the sideline of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting in Uzbekistan capital, Tashkent, on Friday. The talks were mainly focused on the ways to expand bilateral and multilateral cooperation, regional developments and expanding all-out relations. Prior […]
Haaretz: ‘Time to Form an American Jewish Emergency Committee Against Donald Trump’
The Jewish community is growing increasingly desperate as the possibility of a Trump presidency looms ever closer. Haaretz: In dangerous times, American Jews have a tradition of forming “Emergency Committees.” In 1939, fearing that World War II would imperil the activities of the London and Jerusalem-based World Zionist Organization, representatives of America’s major Zionist groups […]
Why is EU anti-Semitism chief Katharina von Schnurbein smearing solidarity? #BDS
Why is EU anti-Semitism chief smearing solidarity? SEE ALSO EU’s antisemitism investigator relies on Israel lobby for latest rumours Katharina von Schnurbein, the EU’s anti-Semitism coordinator (right), with pro-Israel lobbyist Arsen Ostrovsky. (via Twitter) Has a senior European Union official been smearing the Palestine solidarity movement based on hearsay? A few days ago, I learned […]
Zarif departs Tehran for Paris
Zarif’s visit came upon an official invitation by his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault and he is also slated to held talks with François Hollande, President of French Republic, on Wednesday on expansion of bilateral ties as well as regional and international developments. Meeting with France’s speakers of Parliament and Senate and delivering a speech in a […]
Why we shouldn’t dismiss Bilderberg conspiracies so lightly
Martin Parker (TC) : We live in an age of conspiracies about a world shaped by shadowy plots, secret organisations and deals made behind closed doors. And while they are often viewed as the fictions of sad people wearing anoraks and tin foil hats, they can relate to the real business of global politics. Conspiracy […]
Invaders Burn Hall over Ramadan Food
German police have arrested two Moroccan invaders pretending to be asylum seekers in Düsseldorf after they burned down an invader accommodation because the Ramadan food portions were “too small.” The invaders set fire to the Düsseldorf exhibition center on the outskirts of the city where they and 130 other nonwhites were being housed and […]