The Second Liquidator Court for Criminal Cases of Panama’s First Judicial Circuit acquitted Friday all defendants in the “Panama Papers” and “Operation Car Wash” cases. This landmark legal process involved 28 individuals in the “Panama Papers” case, stemming from the leaked documents of the now-defunct Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca & Co., and 31 people [...]

Kuwaiti authorities have increased the repression of government critics in 2024, according to a new report published by Amnesty International on Thursday. The report found that authorities have engaged in various forms of repressive acts since January, including arbitrarily arresting and stripping Kuwaiti citizenship from civilians as well as prosecuting Kuwaiti politicians. Amnesty International Researcher [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an order on Thursday authorizing the UK to submit written observations regarding the Court’s jurisdiction over Israeli nationals within the context of the Oslo Accords. Additional interested parties may request to submit their observations until 12 July 2024. The UK, a state party to the ICC’s Rome Statute, requested [...]

Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council on Thursday raised the travel alert for Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau to “orange” level and advised people to avoid non-essential travelling. The Council claimed that because the Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau have continued to amend or issue legal documents relating to national security in recent years, there [...]

Montenegro’s Special State Prosecutor’s Office ordered an investigation into former special chief prosecutor of for war crimes against Croatian civilians in the Cavat area in 1992 and during the break up former Yugoslavia, according to local media reports on Thursday. The Special State Prosecutor’s Office (SDT) arrested Katnic on April 14, accusing him of inhumane [...]

Internal Affairs Minister of Serbia Ivica Dačić ordered the ban of “Mirëdita, Dobar Dan!” festival in Belgrade on Thursday, citing security concerns, according to the country’s public broadcaster RTS. Held since 2014 with the participation of Albanian and Serb artists and taking the name from the word “good afternoon” in the respective languages, the festival [...]

The US Department of Justice announced on Thursday a massive nationwide operation leading to the indictment of nearly 200 individuals involved in healthcare fraud schemes, with fraudulent claims exceeding $2.7 billion. The operation revealed that over the past two weeks 193 individuals, including 76 doctors, nurse practitioners and other licensed medical professionals, have been charged [...]

The Communist Party of China (CPC) expelled two of its former defense ministers had been expelled from the party Thursday, citing the reasoning of “serious violation of Party’s discipline and the law,” according to government news agency Xinhua. The ministers in question are Li Shangfu and Wei Fengh.  Li Shangfu was first removed from the [...]

A 19-year-old man has been charged with a terrorism offense in New South Wales after briefly entering the office of State Member for Newcastle Tim Crakanthorp with plans to kill him, according to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) on Thursday.  The man, identified as Jordan Patten from Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, has been refused [...]

The UN announced on Thursday the additional deployment of UN peacekeepers in the southeast Haut Mbomou region of the Central African Republic to prevent further violence. Valentine Rugwabiza, the head of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA), announced the deployment at a UN Security Council Briefing. Rugwabiza reported that [...]