Saleh Al Satari, 12, who lost his leg in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza and recently received a prosthetic limb in Jordan, walks with his father, Arafat Yousef, at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on Friday, May 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Taking legal action against tech giants, when each country has its own laws, is complicated. As a result, affected organizations have turned to creative strategies, like operating multiple backup accounts, having a substitute ready when one is blocked and reformulating language in posts to avoid censorship triggers.“It feels like Meta is our boss,” Vivas joked about the ongoing struggle with the tech giant over the basic right to provide health information. “We live to respond to Meta, to adapt ourselves to Meta,” she said. “That’s absurd.”
AP journalist Maria Cheng contributed to this report from New York.Follow AP’s coverage of Latin America and the Caribbean atBRUSSELS (AP) — The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has stepped down temporarily pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, the court announced Friday.
Karim Khan has categorically denied accusations that he tried for more than a year to coerce a female aide into a sexual relationship and groped her against her will.The ICC’s announcement was welcomed by women’s rights groups, who had called for Khan to step down after the allegations emerged last year.
“In any other professional setting, someone facing such serious allegations would have been expected to step down months ago,” said Eimear Shine, a spokesperson for The Hague-based Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice.
by The Associated Press last year found that two court employees, in whom the alleged victim confided, reported the alleged misconduct in May 2024 to the court’s independent watchdog. That was a few weeks before KhanAyse Sahil, whose family emigrated from Bolshevik in Russia, holds a board near Dolmabahce palace where talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations are expected, in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Dilara Acikgoz)
Ayse Sahil, whose family emigrated from Bolshevik in Russia, holds a board near Dolmabahce palace where talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations are expected, in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Dilara Acikgoz)The diplomatic maneuvering began Saturday when European leaders met Zelenskyy in Kyiv and urged the Kremlin to agree to a
as a first step toward peace. Putin responded early Sunday bywith Ukraine in Istanbul. Then came Zelenskyy’s challenge to Putin for face-to-face talks.