The former foreign intelligence chief of Germany, August Hanning, was arrested on Tuesday on allegations of espionage and attempted treason. Hanning, who served as head of the Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, known by its acronym BND) from 1998 to 2005, was detained along with a former aide, identified as Manfred D., who served as his [...]
US District Judge George O’Toole in Boston on Monday issued a ruling blocking the Trump administration from assessing and collecting fines of up to $1.8 million on migrants who fail to willingly leave the US after receiving final deportation orders. O’Toole resolved the class action suit against the administration by granting a motion to stay [...]
Students at Cornell University gathered at a campus plaza Monday to protest the school’s handling of sexual assault allegations against members of the Chi Phi fraternity. Protesters damaged the university’s main administration building, knocking holes in its glass doors and spray-painting its walls with messages condemning both the university’s response to sexual assault and patriarchy [...]
The president of Poland’s Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKIK), Tomasz Chróstny, announced on Monday that charges have been brought against four companies within the Google corporate group for abusing their dominant market position through the use of Polish media publishers’ content in Google search results and other services. According to UOKIK, Google failed [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Monday that nearly 5,700 alleged Islamic State (ISIS) members and supporters have been transferred to Iraq, and that the adults in the group face prosecution under Iraq’s 2005 Anti-Terrorism Law, which allows the death penalty for vaguely defined offenses. “The thousands of boys and men sent to Iraq deserve humane treatment and [...]
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday condemned a deadly airstrike on two trucks delivering aid in South Kordofan state, Sudan, which resulted in the death of one of the drivers. According to the WFP, the attack occurred in the early hours of Saturday, when two trucks clearly marked as humanitarian vehicles were transporting [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc. v. Commissioners of Boulder County, a case brought by the Colorado county against Exxon Mobil and Suncor Energy. The Court must decide if the federal Clean Air Act preempts the Colorado Consumer Protection Act, and if the Court has jurisdiction to [...]
The president of Cornell University, Michael I. Kotlikoff, said Saturday that the school “must do better” in addressing sexual assault allegations, responding in a video statement to the 2024 experiences of an individual known as “Jane Doe.” In an eight-minute video statement released on October 3, Kotlikoff described the past week as “one of the [...]
5 October 2026: World Space Week Human interest in space has been multifaceted, ranging from the deep-seated desire to seek out the origins of our existence to the search for extraterrestrial life and habitable worlds. Prior to the modern technology used to explore space today, ancient civilizations tracked the movement of stars, planets and eclipses [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Friday reported that US immigration authorities detained eight Nicaraguan exiles who were previously granted protected status in 2023 after fleeing political prosecution. On February 9 2023, the Nicaraguan government declared 222 political prisoners as “traitors” and expelled them to the United States, stripping 94 government dissenters and critics of their [...]
