US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday initiating the process to designate chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt as “foreign terrorist organizations.” In justifying the order, Trump stated that “the military wing of the Lebanese chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood joined Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian factions to launch multiple [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Tuesday urged the Nigerian authorities to take urgent measures to secure the release of victims of a recent mass school abduction. HRW denounced the mass abduction of hundreds of students and teachers in Nigeria’s northwest and central regions, describing them as deliberate attacks on education and fundamental rights. HRW’s Nigerian [...]

Spain’s Attorney General Álvaro García Ortiz resigned on Monday after the country’s Supreme Court found him guilty of unlawfully disclosing confidential information. The Supreme Court issued its ruling last week in a 5-2 decision. The court banned García Ortiz from holding his post for two years, imposed a €7,300 fine, and ordered him to pay [...]

Hong Kong issued written notices to two organizations on Monday that the government has promulgated orders to prohibit their operation, citing “reasonable grounds” to believe that they aim to subvert state power. The organizations can make representations in their defense before the prohibitions take effect. In a statement, the Hong Kong Secretary for Security said [...]

A federal judge on Monday dismissed criminal indictments against former FBI director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the prosecutor who secured the charges was appointed unlawfully. Judge Cameron McGowan Currie of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia found that Attorney General Pam Bondi exceeded her [...]

The world’s governments approved a new climate deal at the COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil, adopting the so‑called Belém Package, a bundle of decisions that calls for tripling outlays to help vulnerable countries adapt to intensifying climate impacts. The closing plenary on Saturday saw nearly 200 parties endorse a political outcome that elevates adaptation and [...]

Slovenians on Sunday voted in a referendum against a new law legalizing euthanasia, following mounting pressure from critics of the law. Around 53 percent of voters rejected the law, while 47 percent voted in favour. This result means the parliament cannot vote again on a bill addressing the same issue within the next 12 months.   [...]

South Korea’s special counsel has indicted former President Yoon Suk Yeol for allegedly orchestrating a cover-up of a military investigation into a Marine’s death, marking the latest criminal charge against the ousted leader, according to local media. The indictment was announced Friday after the special counsel questioned Yoon over allegations that he ordered the presidential [...]

Brazil’s federal police arrested Saturday former president Bolsonaro and took him into custody under preventive detention. Bolsonaro had been under house arrest since August 8, after charges brought by the government for an attempted coup d’état and attempted violent abolition of the democratic rule of law. Despite applying to the Federal Supreme Court for a [...]

The former Wales leader of right-wing populist political party Reform UK,  Nathan Gill, was imprisoned on Friday after pleading guilty to accepting bribes from Kremlin-linked figures. The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales sentenced Gill to 10 years and six months imprisonment under Section 2 of the Bribery Act 2010. Gill pleaded guilty to [...]