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Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, the former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), appeared in court on Wednesday charged with 11 historical sex offences. The charges include one of rape, another of gross indecency with a child and nine of indecent assault. His wife, Eleanor Donaldson, is also charged with aiding and abetting these offences. Donaldson [...]

Alexandre de Moraes, a justice of the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF), issued a five-day deadline for the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to explain its purported failure to fully comply with earlier court orders on Monday. The deadline expires this Friday. This move comes amidst an ongoing investigation into what Brazilian authorities have labeled [...]

Ecuadorians voted to approve a number of security proposals from President Daniel Noboa on Sunday as the South American country experiences a surge in violence that has claimed the lives of multiple public officials, including a presidential candidate. Among the proposals was a proposition to amend Ecuador’s constitution to allow the country’s armed forces to [...]

Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday stated that it intends to challenge an order from the Australian eSafety Commissioner demanding the company remove certain posts on the platform regarding the recent attack against a Christian bishop in Sydney. According to X’s statement, the company received an order from the Australian eSafety Commissioner to [...]

Opening statements concluded Monday in the case that designated Donald Trump as the first former US president to be charged with a crime. Trump is accused of falsifying business records to conceal information with the aim of unlawfully influencing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. The case centers on 34 counts of business record falsification in the first degree, [...]

Polish authorities arrested three people on Friday in relation to the attack on an ally of the late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny. Leonid Volkov was “brutally attacked” in mid-March outside his home in Lithuania, where he lives in exile. The arrests were announced by Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, who released a statement on X [...]

The media outlet Fontanka.ru reported Friday that their journalist, Ksenia Klochkova, had her home searched by police in connection with a criminal investigation against journalist Andrei Zakharov. Zakharov left Russia in December 2021, having stated that he faced unprecedented surveillance after being designated as a foreign agent. Fontanka.ru indicated that on Friday around 9 a.m., [...]

The US House of Representatives voted 360–58 Saturday to pass a sanctions bill that includes a provision forcing Chinese company ByteDance to divest from popular social media app TikTok, which would be banned in the US if ByteDance does not comply. The bill, formally entitled the “21st Century Peace through Strength Act,” designates TikTok as [...]

Apple removed two popular social media applications, Meta Platforms’ WhatsApp and Threads, from its Chinese App Store on Friday due to a directive issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China, citing ‘national security reasons’ according to Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. Apple also reportedly removed messaging apps Signal and Telegram on the same day. [...]

Scottish police charged Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National Party (SNP), on Thursday in connection with the alleged embezzlement of funds from the SNP. Murrell is also the husband of former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon. A report on the matter will now be sent to the to the Crown Office and Procurator [...]