Iceland
Prime witness in Assange case admits to lying, details expose misleading indictment
Sigurdur Thordarson, a convicted hacker and one of the prime witnesses in the US indictment against Julian Assange, admitted that he fabricated his testimony in exchange for immunity from prosecution
Icelanders take out a ‘funeral’ for glacier lost to global warming
Rise in global temperatures has induced large scale melting of the ice cover in the Arctic region. After the complete loss of a glacier in Iceland, a symbolic funeral was held to protest global inaction over climate change.
Activist groups demand an end to deportation of refugee children from Iceland
The groups are protesting the two impending deportation cases involving two Afghan families, a single father with two sons and a single mother with her son and daughter
- Iranian president asks US to lift unilateral sanctions to show seriousness in Vienna talks
- Saudi-led military coalition claims to have killed more than 160 Houthi fighters in Yemen
- Lebanese army to investigate soldier seen shooting at protesters in Beirut last week
- Massive trade union rally in Italy denounces fascist assault on labor
- 60,000 film and TV workers in the US set to strike on Monday
