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A federal judge on Tuesday heard arguments on the attempt by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) to block the early review by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of its stations’ broadcast licenses, but did not issue an immediate ruling. During a two-hour hearing, Judge Loren AliKhan for the US District Court for the District of [...]

A judge of Spain’s Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted the national arrest warrants against former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont, removing the immediate legal obstacle to his return to Spain after nearly nine years abroad. Pablo Llarena, the investigating magistrate in the court’s Criminal Chamber, issued the order setting aside the national search, capture and [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday unsealed four arrest warrants against senior Taliban figures, accusing them of persecuting women and girls in Afghanistan, acts that the Court’s prosecutors say constitute crimes against humanity. The four warrants against Taliban Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, Chief Justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani, Education Minister Habibullah Agha and Higher Education [...]

The FBI arrested a California woman, Wanying “Heather” Zhang, on Monday on charges that she spied on a Taiwanese government official while serving as an unregistered agent of the People’s Republic of China. Commenting on Zhang’s arrest, Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Division stated: Wanying Zhang’s arrest for allegedly acting [...]

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 [...]