Peru’s Prosecutor’s Office ordered President Dina Boluarte on Sunday to present all Rolex watches in her possession on April 5 after a raid on her home and office amid the corruption investigation. By an order of the Supreme Court of Justice, the action against Boluarte was conducted on Saturday night till the early hours of [...]

The French National Assembly passed a bill on Thursday banning discrimination over the texture, length, color or style of a person’s hair on first reading. The bill will now go to the Senate for further approval. The proposed bill aims to amend the wording of existing anti-discrimination measures adopted in the labor code, penal code and [...]

The Singaporean Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) announced Monday that former Minister for Transport S. Iswaran was charged with eight additional counts of obtaining, as a public servant, valuable things with a total value of S$18,956.94 (around US $14,094) for no consideration during his incumbency. The additional charges concern Iswaran receiving items from Lum Kok [...]

The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) published its assessment report on Thursday, finding that the threat of terrorism in Denmark and against its interests abroad had increased because of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and a series of Quran burnings in Denmark in 2023. The PET rated the overall terrorist threat in Denmark as [...]

The Spanish National Police announced on Monday that it has arrested three people for the deaths of five migrants who were forced to jump off a boat when crossing the Atlantic Ocean in November 2023. The police identified two men and a woman in Cádiz and Granada as allegedly responsible for the drowning of the [...]

The lower house of the Spanish Parliament approved on Thursday a controversial legislative proposal granting amnesty for Catalan separatists involved in the 2017 independence bid. The proposed law seeks to “put an end to judicial processes and sentences” against anyone who took part in the Catalan independence campaign that took place between November 1, 2011 [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday in an exclusive interview with La Croix and Libération the outline of the French end-of-life bill, which opens the door for assisted dying in the country. According to Macron, the proposed bill consists of three parts: introducing legislation respectively on supportive care, the rights of patients and caregivers [...]

The Peruvian Congress approved Thursday the disqualification of two members of the National Board of Justice (JNJ), Luz Inés Tello de Ñecco and Aldo Alejandro Vásquez Ríos, from public service for 10 years. During the Thursday plenary session, the Peruvian Congress debated and voted for a final report recommending the ouster of several members of [...]

South Korea’s Second Vice Minister of Health and Welfare Park Min-soo announced Monday that the government has begun administrative actions against some 7,000 medical residents who have not returned to work despite the government’s earlier order.  Park Min-soo said that the government’s punishment measures include suspending the trainee doctors’ medical license for 3 months, delaying their [...]

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attended a Parliamentary ethics hearing on Thursday, apologizing for his governing party’s corruption scandal and promising not to host any more fundraising parties during his leadership. The scandal involved individuals from three factions within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)—factions led respectively by the late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, [...]