The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Monday granted a stay of execution for Melissa Lucio, who was scheduled to be executed on April 27 for the 2007 capital murder of her two-year-old daughter. The trial court will review new evidence to determine if she is innocent. Lucio maintains that she was wrongfully convicted. Lucio’s daughter, [...]
The Honorable Judge Arthur Engoron of the New York County State Supreme Court Monday ruled that Donald Trump is in civil contempt of court. Engoron will fine the former President $10,000 a day until he purges, or rectifies, the contempt. New York Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed Trump as part of a financial investigation by [...]
UN experts Monday blamed both the Taliban regime and the US for the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. The US sanctioned the Taliban government when it came back to power in 2021 after 20 years. In February 2022, however, President Joe Biden signed an executive order offering some help to the Afghan people, although most funds [...]
In a move toward greater transparency, the Spanish ombudsman Saturday announced it will probe the possible inappropriate use of Pegasus spyware by authorities to spy on Catalonian separatist figures. Additionally, a parliamentary commission and the Spanish Intelligence Agency CNI will conduct a separate probe. This decision came in response to a report by the University of [...]
Russia’s Justice Ministry Friday designated popular activist Vladimir Kara-Murza as a “foreign agent,” which means he will have to file elaborate financial disclosures and add a disclaimer to all his public messages on social media or otherwise. Kara-Murza, 40, is a prominent Russian dissident, political activist, writer, and democrat spokesperson. He has been lauded abroad [...]
Guinea’s former president, Alpha Conde, was released from house arrest last week. Conde was removed from office by the army in September 2021, and he was temporarily replaced by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya. In January, Doumbouya announced the establishment of an 81-member National Council of Transition (CNT) to serve as the country’s parliament and legislate during [...]
The European Council (EC) and the European Union (EU) Parliament Saturday reached a provisional political agreement on the Digital Services Act (DSA), a landmark internet law proposed by the EC in 2020. The DSA intends to prevent the circulation of illegal digital content and to protect the fundamental rights of users by requiring online intermediaries such [...]
Russia state-owned media RIA Novosti Saturday released a report alleging the United Kingdom deployed sabotage experts to western Ukraine, triggering an investigation by Russia’s top state investigative body. According to the report, the UK deployed 20 members of the Special Air Service (SAS), a special forces unit of the British Army which specializes in counterterrorism [...]
In the past few days, the Mauritian government has been facing what some claim to be the most violent protests in recent years, with residents from various mostly low-income neighbourhoods protesting unsustainable increases in the cost of living and the sudden and drastic increase of petrol and gas prices by more than 10% and 30%. [...]
A group of individual voters and community-based groups filed a lawsuit Friday challenging Florida’s new congressional district map. The organizations Black Voters Matter, Equal Ground, the League of Women Voters of Florida, and Florida Rising, supported by the National Redistricting Foundation, joined with 12 individual plaintiffs in filing the lawsuit. The complaint noted that Florida [...]
