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Smartphone apps downloaded from Apple and Google can allow parents and other abusers to connect with pedophiles who pay to watch — and direct — criminal behavior.

Indonesia is the beating heart of nickel production for the green transition, but the industry is hiding a raft of dirty practices

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The crusade against bright headlights has picked up speed in recent years, in large part due to a couple of Reddit nerds. Could they know what’s best for the auto industry better than the auto industry itself?

• Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia are facing widespread abuses, some of which may amount to situations of forced labor, across employment sectors and geographic regions, including at high profile giga-projects funded by or linked to Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.
• FIFA, the international football organization, is set to confirm Saudi Arabia as host of the 2034 Men’s World Cup without requiring proper due diligence and binding commitments to prevent labor abuses.
• Saudi authorities are systematically failing to protect migrant workers from grave abuses. Pervasive enforcement gaps in Saudi laws intended to protect migrant workers require urgent attention because they fail to meet international norms and the country’s obligations under international human rights instruments.

Drew Sullivan is unknown to the broad public, but the head of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project is one of the most influential journalists in the world.

FIFA’s insulting handling of the issue of remedy for migrant workers who suffered in relation to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, and its deeply flawed evaluation of Saudi Arabia’s 2034 World Cup bid, provides yet more evidence for why FIFA is not fit for purpose to deliver on its responsibilities to govern football, FairSquare said today.

Russian GRU spy Pavel Rubtsov, who posed as Spanish journalist Pablo González, returned to Moscow in a major prisoner swap with the West. An open-source investigation has revealed that at Vnukovo Airport, he was warmly greeted by Oleg Sotnikov, a GRU officer on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for cyber-espionage and a key figure in Russia’s GRU illegals program.