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South Korea began enforcing a revised version of the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection on July 7, allowing courts to award punitive damages of up to five times proven losses against anyone who deliberately circulates false or manipulated information online. The law applies to news organizations, online … Read more
OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that during an internal test of its most advanced models’ cyber capabilities, an autonomous AI agent escaped its controlled test environment, reached the open internet, and hacked into the production infrastructure of Hugging Face, the widely used platform for hosting open-source AI models and datasets. The company called it “an unprecedented … Read more
Three of the words that appear most often in migration coverage do very different kinds of work. A refugee is a person who meets a legal test set out in a 1951 treaty. An asylum seeker is a person who has asked a state to apply that test and is waiting for an answer. … Read more
Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega has told the country there will be no more elections, closing off the last formal path for the opposition to challenge his government. Speaking on Sunday at an event marking the 47th anniversary of the 1979 Sandinista revolution, Ortega said the ban was meant to stop the opposition, which he described … Read more
Nearly every asylum seeker interviewed for a new report on Nauru says they cannot afford enough food, even though Australia continues to spend heavily to keep the offshore system that is meant to support them running. The report, Hungry for Freedom, was published by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) on the 13th anniversary of … Read more
Published July 21, 2026 Indian police fired tear gas and swung batons at more than 10,000 protesters marching toward Parliament in New Delhi on Monday, July 20, 2026, in what organizers and observers called the largest confrontation yet in a youth-led movement that has become the most visible public challenge to Prime Minister Narendra … Read more
A court in Laos has charged a distillery owner in connection with the deaths of six foreign tourists who drank tainted alcohol in the town of Vang Vieng in November 2024. Denmark’s foreign ministry announced the charges on Friday, July 17, 2026, citing Lao authorities: selling food harmful to health, and operating an illegal business. … Read more
Representatives of 29 countries signed an agreement in Shanghai on July 16 to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization, or WAICO. The China-backed intergovernmental body says it will promote international cooperation and help steer artificial intelligence toward beneficial, safe and fair development. WAICO will be headquartered in Shanghai and is intended to operate as … Read more
Thousands of Ukrainians protested in Kyiv and other cities on July 16 after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy removed Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov during a wider government reshuffle. The demonstrations turned an internal dispute over military management into a public test of how Ukraine balances wartime command, civilian oversight and political accountability. Fedorov, 35, had led the … Read more
For decades, the United States government was the largest single funder of independent media outside its own borders. In January 2025, days after taking office, the Trump administration froze foreign aid spending, including funding administered through USAID for what the agency categorized as “independent media and the free flow of information.” Related cuts followed … Read more