South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s lawyer stated on Thursday that Yoon is prepared to abide by the verdict of the Constitutional Court overseeing the impeachment proceedings, even in the event of his removal from office, according to local news. During a press briefing at the Korea Conference Center in Seoul, Yoon’s Attorney Yoon Kab-keun [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a lawsuit Tuesday against six corporate landlords and a software company accused of colluding to fix rent prices by sharing sensitive competitive information through the use of pricing algorithms. The DOJ accused the landlords of colluding through software created by tech company RealPage, which collects sensitive pricing information [...]
The European Commission on Wednesday dismissed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that European Union (EU) laws and regulations on online content amount to censorship of social media platforms. European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier affirmed: “We don’t ask any platform to remove any lawful content.” Regnier distinguished between illegal content and potentially harmful content, stating that [...]
The US Supreme Court refused to halt president-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush-money criminal case by a 5-4 vote Thursday. The court reasoned that the likely sentence of an “unconditional discharge” would not hamper Trump’s transition to the presidency and that evidentiary issues raised by Trump’s lawyers could be resolved through regular appeals. A [...]
Amnesty International urged Cameroon to improve its human rights situation Thursday, responding to the country’s suspension of four non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including the Central African Human Rights Defenders Network (REDHAC), and the alleged harassment of Cameroonian lawyer and REDHAC board president Alice Nkom. On December 5, Cameroonian Minister of Territorial Administration Paul Atanga Nji issued [...]
An AP-NORC poll released on Tuesday cited immigration as a growing concern for all groups polled including Republicans, Democrats and independents. The poll was conducted in December, with 47 percent of respondents stating that immigration was the top issue for the government in 2025. While the public is somewhat unified in its belief that immigration [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed an argument in the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday seeking the public release of materials from the investigation and prosecution of Donald Trump relating to his alleged obstruction of the 2020 presidential election. The decision comes in response to a district court order [...]
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported on Thursday that over 125,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their homeland since the fall of the Assad regime. However, UNHCR issued warnings about the challenges these returnees face, emphasizing that while many are hopeful, the reality is stark and fraught with difficulties. [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a statement on Wednesday announcing that Takeshi Ebisawa, allegedly a prominent figure in Japan’s Yakuza crime syndicate, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar. This admission comes amid a broader investigation into a complex international network involved in the trafficking of drugs, weapons, and [...]
The Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China announced the conclusion of an unfair trading practices investigation into the European Union’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), concluding that the regulation unreasonably restricts the entry of Chinese companies’ products, services and investments into the EU market, damaging the competitiveness of Chinese companies and their products. [...]
