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Biden Administration Urges Ukraine to Stay Quiet on Russian Pipeline
July 21, 2021
As U.S. officials have signaled that they will no longer stop the Nord Stream 2, a controversial Russia-to-Germany pipeline, the Biden administration is asking Ukraine to stay quiet about its staunch opposition during negotiations with Berlin.
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CNET: What to know about Pegasus Spyware
July 21, 2021
CNET explains how security researchers found evidence of installation of Pegasus Spyware, a software made by the Israeli cybersecurity company NSO group, on 37 phones of activists, journalists and businesspeople, showing how vulnerable personal information is to digital prying.
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WHO Chief: 'Premature' to Rule out COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory
July 19, 2021
In a recent debriefing, The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus acknowledged to reporters that there was a “premature push” to rule out the COVID-19 lab leak theory without enough evidence.
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Leading Activists Groups Call On UN To Push Russia on Human Rights
July 14, 2021
In an open letter to the UN, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Human Rights House Foundation, and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) urged the United Nations to condemn the deterioration of civil rights in Russia citing that their legal landscape in inconsistent with international standards.
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G20 Finance Ministers Sign Off on Global Tax Deal
July 14, 2021
Finance ministers from the G20 have signed off on a plan for global tax reform that seeks to introduce an international tax on multinational companies and set a global minimum tax rate at 15 percent, but will not reach final approval, after some adjustments, until the G20 meeting in Rome in October.
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