What to know about Code Noir, a shocking French law that oversaw the slavery of 1.4 million Africans

France’s powerful lower house voted finally to scrub a fundamental slavery-era edict from French law on Thursday. After the ...

France's parliament votes to repeal slavery-era Black Code, with tears and history in the chamber

The National Assembly voted 254-0 — a rare show of unanimity — to adopt a bill repealing Code Noir, or Black Code, the 1685 decree King Louis XIV signed to govern slaves across France's colonies.
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French parliament votes to repeal slavery-era Black Code

France abolished slavery in 1848, but the Code Noir was never formally eliminated as a law. The vote is seen as a significant step in addressing France's colonial past.

How a Pune man ended up as a 'cyber slave' in a Myanmar scam compound

All Sahil Did Was click on an Instagram ad about a job vacancy in Thailand. He would end up thousands of kilometres away from ...

Women say they were raped and ransomed by fighters in Sudan’s ongoing war

Women in Sudan have shared their accounts of being abducted, raped and held for ransom by the paramilitary Rapid Support ...
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The Gentlemen ransomware: Dissecting a self-propagating Go encryptor

Microsoft Threat Intelligence presents a comprehensive analysis of The Gentlemen, a Go-based ransomware deployed by ...
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All Auction Answers in 007 First Light

Players will need to provide fitting auction answers during the Past Never Dies chapters in order to get the winning bid in ...