The UK announced new sanctions Friday against Russia, directed at three units of the Russian military intelligence agency GRU and 18 military intelligence officers “responsible for spreading chaos and disorder on Putin’s orders” and malicious cyber activity over many years, according to local media. According to the UK, the GRU “routinely uses cyber and information [...]
A US federal judge in California certified a class action lawsuit against the AI company Anthropic on Thursday. The lawsuit concerns millions of copyrighted books that were allegedly pirated to train Anthropic’s Claude AI platform, setting the stage for what may become one of the largest copyright infringement cases in US history. Senior District Judge [...]
US citizen and Army veteran George Retes on Wednesday spoke out after being arrested during an immigration raid at his workplace on a California cannabis farm, stating that he was detained for three days without explanation. Retes shared in a video press conference organized by the United Farm Workers (UFW) labor union that he works [...]
US President Donald Trump vowed Friday to sue The Wall Street Journal over a report claiming he wrote a sexually suggestive letter to Jeffrey Epstein, adding to his legal battles against major news organizations as his administration faces backlash for closing the Epstein case despite transparency promises. The report, published Thursday, claimed Trump had written [...]
A Russian military court sentenced a prisoner to an additional six years of imprisonment and a fine of 49,000 rubles (approximately $600) on the charges of public calls to terrorism and the spread of “war fakes,” according to local media. The charges against the prisoner, a man named Andrey Voronin, are based on his conversations [...]
Amnesty International on Thursday denounced new legislative amendments in Russia that supposedly strengthen the fight against “extremism.” The organization emphasized that new bills allow groups to be declared “extremist” without a court decision and penalize searching for or accessing “extremist materials” online. Amnesty warned that these bills could pave the way for the ruthless persecution [...]
UN experts on Thursday warned that the Peruvian Congress’ approval of a bill granting amnesty to persons who committed serious human rights violations during the internal armed conflict between 1980 and 2000 is contrary to international law. The UN experts highlighted that individuals who committed grave human rights violations during Peru’s internal armed conflict would [...]
A Russian military court sentenced a defected soldier to 23 years of imprisonment and imposed a fine of 590,000 rubles (approximately $7,500), according to local media. Anton Hozhaev faced charges of “performance management” of a terrorist organization, treason, legalization of funds obtained by criminal means, and defection. Hozhaev attended military school until he resigned in [...]
Twenty US states sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Wednesday with the aim of blocking the cut of funding to a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) pre-disaster mitigation program. The lawsuit specifically seeks to preserve the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, a multi-billion-dollar initiative created in 2018 that funds infrastructure projects to protect [...]
A member of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s legal team allegedly delivered threats to Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), stating that, unless the ICC withdrew arrest warrants for Israeli officials, Khan and the court would be “destroyed,” a news outlet reported Tuesday. British-Israeli lawyer and Nicholas Kaufman allegedly delivered the [...]
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