The Trump administration’s decision last August to allow employers to defer the Social Security payroll taxes seems to have done very little to stimulate the economy. Very few private employers participated in the deferral, and it has burdened the federal ...

Wisconsin's district attorney says no-one will face charges over the shooting of the black man in August. ...

Die HPG haben die Namen von zwei Guerillakämpfern veröffentlicht, die im August im Widerstand gegen die türkische Besatzung in Heftanîn gefallen sind. ...

HPG BIM paid tribute to four guerrillas who fell as martyrs in Serhat on 26 August. ...

According to the AEI Housing Market Indicators update, driven by the lowest mortgage rates in history, counts for all loan purposes were at or near series’ highs in August 2020. No cash out and cash out refinances are blowing past their prior highs. The p ...

The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) granted its 2020 Human Rights Award to seven Egyptian lawyers currently in prison and granted an exceptional posthumous Human Rights Award to Turkish lawyer Ebru Timtik who died in August 2020. ...

Last week saw a meeting of minds between two heroic resisters: Natan Sharansky, the famous refusenik who spent nine years in Soviet prisons, and Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong who was arrested in August. The post A powerful conversation ...

HPG Press Liason Center (BIM) issued a written statement to pay tribute to the guerrillas who fell as martyrs in Medina on 19 August 2020. ...

A US report claims that Israeli agents shot dead the man and his daughter in the street in August. ...

Turkish Statistical Institute said unemployment reached 13.2%, or 4,194,000 people in the month of August. ...

The Yazidi town of Shengal (Sinjar) has been targeted by the Turkish state since the organization of the local people who took up arms to defend themselves after the ISIS onslaught in August 2014. ...

Könnt ihr euch noch daran erinnern? Damals mitten im August, als plötzlich über Rassismus geredet wurde. Und das bei dieser Hitze, bei der man sein Smartphone immer wieder in den Schatten legen musste, damit es keinen Sonnenstich bekam, wenn man auf Twitt ...

Read time: 8 minsOn Monday, October 5, a ship left Cameron LNG, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal shut down by Hurricane Laura, the powerful storm that made landfall on August 27 near Cameron, Louisiana, about 15 miles south of the plant. That tanker ...

August 2014, I spent the day in front of the television with my parents in the living room, sitting on my bed watching videos on youtube, spending hours reading on the websites of German, English and Kurdish newspapers. On all the channels, I saw the same ...

Im Osten von Syrien ist ein Massengrab mit 25 Angehörigen des Stammes der Schuaitat entdeckt worden. Die darin verscharrten Menschen wurden im August 2014 bei Massakern der Dschihadistenmiliz „Islamischer Staat“ in Deir ez-Zor exekutiert. ...

At the end of August, Norway’s parliament was subjected to a serious cyber-attack, and Norway this week announced Russia was behind the attack. It’s a useful reminder to everyone that our societies are vulnerable and that we shouldn’t take their many asse ...

Erbil, Kurdistan Region, August 27, 2020 Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani received the French Republic’s Minister of the Armed Forces Ms. Florence Parly and her accompanying delegation in Erbil on Thursday. The latest developments in Iraq, way ...

HPG announced the names of three guerrilla fighters who died in August during a Turkish air attack in the Amanos Mountains in the province of Hatay. Among the fallen is also the area commander Hüseyin Fırat. ...

HPG published the names of four martyrs. Two guerrillas died in Mardin in August, and two other guerrillas in Hakkari in September. ...

Two guerrillas who were martyred in August, have been buried in the cemetery of the nameless. ...

Die HPG haben die Identität von zwei Gefallenen veröffentlicht. Kendal Welat Dersim und Devrim Seyfettin sind Anfang August im Widerstand von Heftanîn ums Leben gekommen. ...

KMMK This is KMMK’s monthly report, August 2020, on the human rights situation in eastern Kurdistan. This report summarizes key The post The Kurdish Human Rights Situation Report in August 2020 appeared first on Kurdistan Human Rights Association. ...