The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) dismissed India’s objections regarding the legitimacy of arbitration to address the ongoing Indus River disputes between India and Pakistan on Thursday. Consequently, the court has reinstated a previously stalled procedure that had been impeded for a considerable number of years. Pakistan asserts that India’s proposed hydroelectric energy projects will substantially [...]

Waltine Nauta, a former aide to US ex-President Donald Trump, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to six criminal charges in a Miami, Florida federal court. According to a minute order from the magistrate that oversaw Nauta’s arraignment, Nauta pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice, withholding documents or records, corruptly concealing documents or records, concealing [...]

The Hong Kong Police Force released statements on Wednesday and Thursday announcing the arrest of a total of five people for suspected contravention of the National Security Law. The police arrested these men for the suspected contravention of “conspiracy to collusion with a foreign country or with external elements to endanger national security” under Article [...]

Tel Aviv District Commander Ami Eshed announced his resignation from policing in a press conference Wednesday. Eshed stated that due to requests from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet to “crackdown” on protesters, he saw no option but to resign. This comes as demonstrations against Israel’s proposed judicial reform enter their fourth day, with almost half [...]

A Hong Kong court found Cheng Wing-chun guilty of insulting China’s National Anthem under the National Anthem Ordinance on Wednesday. Cheng is the first person to be convicted under this ordinance. This was after he allegedly insulted the national anthem and desecrated the regional flag. Cheng was convicted shortly after he used a 2019 anti-government [...]

The Parliament of Ghana passed an extreme anti-gay bill on Wednesday, which is set to tighten laws against members of the LGBTQ+ community. Ghana’s 275 members of Parliament unanimously passed the bill, known as the 2021 Promotion of Appropriate Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill. The bill is set to criminalize the promotion, advocacy, funding [...]

A court in El Salvador sentenced former Salvadoran president Mauricio Funes, to a term of six years in prison Wednesday on charges of tax evasion. Funes is also alleged to have involvement with criminal syndicates within El Salvador, leading to his indictment and subsequent conviction with a prison term of 14 years. Funes is a [...]

Kenyan Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki announced Wednesday that Kenya is delaying plans to reopen its border with Somalia due to a wave of attacks linked to al Qaeda militants. Earlier in May, Kindiki announced plans to re-open Kenya’s Mandera border crossing with Somalia after a ten-year shutdown. The announcement comes as the number of refugees [...]

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Wednesday announced that an Ottawa man accused of “advocating a violent far-right ideology” was arrested and faces both terrorism and hate propaganda charges, which the RCMP states is a first for Canadian law enforcement. The accused is alleged to have helped to produce three “terrorist propaganda videos” for the [...]

United Kingdom (UK) Defense Secretary Ben Wallace announced Wednesday that UK Special Forces are the focus of an inquiry into allegations of “unlawful activity” in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013. The independent inquiry, which Wallace commissioned in 2022, addresses allegations that the response by Royal Military Police investigating whether unlawful killings had been carried out [...]