Muhyiddin Yassin, the former prime minister of Malaysia and current leader of the opposition coalition, Perikatan Nasional, was formally charged Tuesday with sedition for allegedly insulting the country’s previous monarch. This marks the first time a former prime minister has been prosecuted under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948. The charges stem from comments [...]
The New Zealand Human Rights Commission called Thursday for significant policy changes to the Accredited Employer Work Visa scheme (AEWV) to include ending the practice of tying visas to specific employers and implementing a stronger framework for ethical recruitment and worker protections. The AEWV is a temporary work visa program introduced in May 2022, allowing [...]
A New Zealand helicopter pilot, Glen Malcolm Conning, was shot and killed on Monday by separatist fighters shortly after his helicopter landed in the remote village of Alama, located in the Papua province of Indonesia. Conning, 50, was working for the Indonesian aviation company PT Intan Angkasa Air Service. The attackers released four Indigenous Papuan [...]
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez exercised his right to not testify on Tuesday in a corruption case involving his wife, Begoña Gómez. who is accused of leveraging her position to influence business deals. Under Article 315 of the the Spanish Civil Procedure Law, government officials can testify in writing. Sánchez offered to provide written evidence [...]
Dutch territorial authorities announced on Monday the arrest of a person of interest in connection with the July 17 shooting of Sint Maarten politician and leader of the Oualichi Movement for Change (OMC) party, Oliver Arrindell. The politician sustained injuries but was released from the Sint Maarten Medical Center in a stable condition. Sint Maarten [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Christian Tein, leader of the New Caledonian independence group “CCAT cell,” will be detained in mainland France after being charged on Saturday in connection with violent protests on the island territory, according to local media and statements from his lawyer to the press. Tein will be transferred almost 17,000 kilometers (10,500 miles) to France from [...]
New South Wales Premier Chris Minns formally apologized in Parliament House on Thursday to all those convicted or affected by laws that criminalized homosexuality, which was decriminalized 40 years ago. New South Wales is the last Australian state to apologize for these laws. Victoria and South Australia apologized in 2016, followed by the other three [...]
Multiple media outlets reported Wednesday that 560 million Ticketmaster customers may have been compromised in a data breach by ShinyHunters, a known hacker group. The group claimed in an online forum that 1.3 terabytes of Ticketmaster customer data, including names, phone numbers, addresses and credit card details of customers had been stolen. They are asking [...]
