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SAN FRANCISCO, 29 August, 2026 — News Desk: A U.S. federal judge has ruled that parts of the Trump administration’s efforts to revoke visas and deport noncitizen college students over pro-Palestinian advocacy are unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Noel Wise said targeting people for protected speech, including criticism of Israel and support for Palestine, violated constitutional free-speech protections. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed by The Stanford Daily, which said some international student journalists had censored their coverage of pro-Palestinian protests and the Middle East conflict because of fears of government retaliation.Judge Wise warned that such policies could create a broader climate of self-censorship and said government punishment for disfavored opinions was inconsi...

 COPENHAGEN, 29 August, 2026 — News Desk: Two expert reports have found that Denmark’s forced contraception programme in Greenland violated women’s human rights but did not meet the legal definition of genocide. At least 4,000 Greenlandic women and girls, some as young as 12, received IUDs or contraceptive injections between 1966 and 1991, often without their knowledge or consent. The reports said the practices violated rights to privacy, family life and freedom from degrading treatment. Some women suffered serious complications, including infections, infertility and other permanent health problems. The experts found no sufficient evidence that the programme was carried out with an intention to destroy Greenland’s population. However, one report said Denmark may have breached the ...

 WASHINGTON, 29 August, 2026 (Kamran Raja): U.S. President Donald Trump has announced an unprecedented agreement under which American interests will gain majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven oil reserves, as Washington seeks to revive the country’s struggling energy sector and secure additional crude supplies for U.S. refineries. Trump said the agreement had been secured through a partnership with private businesses and would come at no cost to American taxpayers. The announcement followed weeks of negotiations between the United States and Venezuelan authorities over long-term access to oil fields and increased investment in Venezuela’s energy industry.U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the agreement as a “win-win” for both countries, ...

 QUSRA, 29  August, 2026 (Nosheen): Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian homes in and around the occupied West Bank village of Qusra on Saturday, in the first major incident since a settler siege in the area earlier this month triggered international condemnation. According to witnesses, the settlers surrounded a Palestinian home and threw stones at the building while seven Palestinians were trapped inside. One of those inside, Saddam Oday, said Israeli military forces fired tear gas into the house and detained residents inside while allowing him to leave. He also said that, according to his account, Israeli forces did not detain any of the settlers and allowed them to leave the area. The owner of the house, Luay Bayrudi, said Israeli soldiers handcuffed, blind...