- 6,000 creatives sign statement urging support for art students persecuted for protests
- Signatories slam ‘increasingly brutal, violent and deadly state crackdown’
- Raneem Shaban, 27, aims to encourage change in the Kingdom’s fashion industry through creations that transform used clothing into something new
- ‘I was worried people wouldn’t accept the idea of wearing something created mainly from used fabric or material but the mentality has changed,’ she said.
197 organizations write to International Criminal Court demanding action over situation in Palestine
- The letters cite examples of previous deterrent, preventive ICC statements that proved effective in preventing Israeli crimes against Palestinians
- They also said recent raids on Palestinian civil society organizations could amount to “offenses against the administration of justice” under the ICC’s Rome Statute
- In 2019, genetic samples in the case were sent to a lab in Texas, where the results were cross-referenced with samples uploaded to Family Tree DNA, a Houston-based commercial genetic testing company, police said
- Musk on Monday also called Apple’s fee on transactions through its App Store a “secret 30 percent tax”
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