ProPublica released a report Thursday revealing new details about Clarence Thomas’ history of accepting lavish gifts while serving as a US Supreme Court Justice. According to the report, Thomas failed to disclose millions of dollars worth of gifts from several multi-millionaires who shared his conservative views. The report specifically names H. Wayne Huzienga, David Sokol, [...]

India’s lower house of parliament, the Lok Sabha, restored the membership of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday after India’s Supreme Court stayed his conviction in a 2019 defamation case. Gandhi is a key figure in the Indian National Congress (INC), India’s main opposition political party. After the news about parliament’s decision to restore him, [...]

Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General announced Friday it would investigate whether recent Russian attacks on Odessa and other Black Sea ports constitute war crimes, according to a report from Reuters. The ports are major exporters of grain, a key food source for some of the world’s poorest countries. Russia attacked the ports despite co-signing [...]

Senegal suspended mobile internet access on Monday after the arrest of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and a period of civil unrest. NetBlocks, an independent monitor of global internet freedom, mapped the restriction using data from Google. The data showed a sharp decrease in Senegalese internet traffic on Monday morning. Communications Minister Moussa Bocar Thiam said [...]

Singapore executed Saridewi Binte Djamani, a 45-year-old woman, on Friday as the penalty for a 2018 drug-trafficking conviction. It was Singapore’s first execution of a woman in almost 20 years. After a covert drug bust in 2016, Singapore authorities charged Saridewi with possession of six packets and seven straws of substances. The substances included 30.72 [...]

A Russian court found a supporter of opposition activist Alexey Navalny guilty of “participation in an extremist community” and sentenced him to 9 years in prison on Monday. Vadim Ostanin was a member of Team Navalny, an activist organization associated with the Russian opposition firebrand who is currently serving a lengthy prison sentence. Team Navalny [...]

Philippine Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said Friday that the Philippine government will have to learn more about the intentions of several investigators from the International Criminal Court (ICC) before granting them entry to the country. The ICC intends to enter the Philippines to investigate President Duterte’s “war on drugs,” which took place between 2011 [...]

The Attorney General of El Salvador announced the culmination of an illegal microfinancing sting that resulted in the arrests of over a hundred Colombian nationals at a press conference Monday. The arrests come at a time when El Salvador’s government is under international scrutiny for its ongoing mass detention of suspected gang members. An international [...]

Africa News and the Associated Press reported Sunday that many refugees who crossed Sudan’s northeast border this month into Libya are asking the UN for better support amid reports of delays and inadequate shelter. The refugees seek safety from a conflict that has displaced millions. When the Rapid Support Forces (RAF), a paramilitary group led [...]

The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an application for leave Thursday in the case of Gwendolyn Louise Deegan v. Attorney General of Canada. The decision brings to an end a legal battle over the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and the Canada-US Enhanced Tax Information Exchange Agreement Implementation Act (IGA) that began in [...]