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A Pakistani national with ties to Iran was federally charged in New York for a murder-for-hire plan targeting US government officials, according to a Tuesday announcement from the US Department of Justice. The accused, Asif Merchant, contacted a confidential source under the pretense of selling clothing in the US, later paying the source $5,000 to [...]

The German Federal Court of Justice rejected former Syrian senior intelligence officer Anwar Raslan’s appeal against his crimes against humanity conviction on Monday. Raslan entered Germany in 2014. In January 2022, Raslan was convicted of crimes against humanity in “the form of homicide, torture, serious deprivation of personal liberty, rape and sexual assault in coincidence [...]

The president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko pardoned a German national who was sentenced to death in June, the government’s press service announced on Tuesday. Lukashenko’s statement has now commuted the German’s verdict to a life sentence. Rico Krieger, a German national and a former Red Cross employee, was convicted in June on terrorism and mercenary charges [...]

A Pakistan accountability court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan extended on Monday former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi’s physical remand by 10 days in a Toshakhana reference case, according to local media. During the hearing, Khan argued that Bibi should not be punished as she was not associated with the case and did [...]

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan has sentenced Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva to 6 and a half years of imprisonment for spreading false information about the Armed Russian Forces of the Russian Federation in a secret trial, the court’s press service said on Monday. Alsu Kurmasheva worked for the US government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and [...]

The US Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General announced an investigation Wednesday into the Secret Service’s process for securing the Trump campaign rally on July 13 where one spectator was killed and several others, including the former president, were injured in an apparent assassination attempt. It is unclear when this investigation began as it is [...]

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Sunday said it is investigating the Pennsylvania shooting incident in which former President Donald Trump was injured and an attendee killed as an assassination attempt and potential domestic terrorism. The FBI also stated that there were no current public safety concerns at the time when the statement [...]

US President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he ordered a review of the security measures for a rally in Pennsylvania where former President Donald Trump was injured and one spectator was killed. Biden stated that the FBI is leading the investigation into the incident at the Pennsylvania rally, noting that it is in the [...]

The official spokesperson for the Iraq Ministry of Justice, Ahmed Laibi Abdul Hussein, strongly refuted a news article accusing the ministry of carrying out secret executions in Al-Hout prison. The ministry is braced to pursue legal action against the site. According to the Ministry of Justice, the accusations “aim to mislead domestic and international public [...]

The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Saturday overturned the conviction of ex-PM Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi for violating the country’s marriage laws in 2018, according to Khan’s lawyer, Naeem Panthuja, who celebrated on social media. Khan and his wife were sentenced to seven years for violating the law by marrying before the [...]