A judge of Spain’s Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted the national arrest warrants against former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont, removing the immediate legal obstacle to his return to Spain after nearly nine years abroad. Pablo Llarena, the investigating magistrate in the court’s Criminal Chamber, issued the order setting aside the national search, capture and [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday unsealed four arrest warrants against senior Taliban figures, accusing them of persecuting women and girls in Afghanistan, acts that the Court’s prosecutors say constitute crimes against humanity. The four warrants against Taliban Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani, Education Minister Habibullah Agha and Higher Education [...]

The FBI arrested a California woman, Wanying “Heather” Zhang, on Monday on charges that she spied on a Taiwanese government official while serving as an unregistered agent of the People’s Republic of China. Commenting on Zhang’s arrest, Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Division stated: Wanying Zhang’s arrest for allegedly acting [...]

The former foreign intelligence chief of Germany, August Hanning, was arrested on Tuesday on allegations of espionage and attempted treason. Hanning, who served as head of the Federal Intelligence Service  (Bundesnachrichtendienst, known by its acronym BND) from 1998 to 2005, was detained along with a former aide, identified as Manfred D., who served as his [...]

Speaking at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on September 9, President Donald Trump made a headline-grabbing commitment: should Republicans maintain congressional control (House of Representatives and the Senate) in the upcoming November midterm elections, he would authorize a $5,000 cash distribution to every American adult, to be called the “Trump Dividend.” The next night, [...]

US District Judge George O’Toole in Boston on Monday issued a ruling blocking the Trump administration from assessing and collecting fines of up to $1.8 million on migrants who fail to willingly leave the US after receiving final deportation orders. O’Toole resolved the class action suit against the administration by granting a motion to stay [...]

Students at Cornell University gathered at a campus plaza Monday to protest the school’s handling of sexual assault allegations against members of the Chi Phi fraternity. Protesters damaged the university’s main administration building, knocking holes in its glass doors and spray-painting its walls with messages condemning both the university’s response to sexual assault and patriarchy [...]

The president of Poland’s Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKIK), Tomasz Chróstny, announced on Monday that charges have been brought against four companies within the Google corporate group for abusing their dominant market position through the use of Polish media publishers’ content in Google search results and other services. According to UOKIK, Google failed [...]

It has been 80 years since the Nuremberg tribunal released its historic judgment, for the first time ruling that those responsible for the worst crimes known to humankind could be held individually criminally liable under international law.  The United States stood at the center of those efforts—establishing the tribunal, providing a judge and a chief [...]