The Presidency of the 29th UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29) on Friday released a draft financial plan, calling on developed countries to jointly mobilize $250 billion per year by 2035 to support developing countries in addressing climate change. However, the proposed deal faced widespread criticism from various groups for being inadequate and inefficient. Following [...]
The small town of McColl, South Carolina has been left without a police department following the resignation of its chief of police Bob Hale on Friday. Hale cited a “hostile work environment perpetuated by a specific Councilman” as his reason for resignation. Hale submitted his resignation on October 31st 2024 to the town council, with [...]
Israeli prosecutors Thursday indicted one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides, Eli Feldstein, for leaking classified information on Hamas and most likely harming national security, the latest development in a web of legal scandals that has entangled Netanyahu. Feldstein now faces a sentence of up to life in prison for leaking information which allegedly jeopardizes [...]
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Friday reported that more aid workers, healthcare staffers, delivery personnel and other humanitarians have been killed in 2024 than in any other year, with a recorded death toll of 281 aid workers globally. Many of the workers were killed while providing humanitarian assistance on [...]
New York Judge Juan Merchan indefinitely postponed president-elect Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush-money case Friday following a joint motion from prosecutors and Trump’s defense team. Sentencing was scheduled for November 26, after the US presidential election, but Trump’s victory has thrown the four criminal cases against him into uncharted territory. Merchan’s order also allowed [...]
The federal police of Brazil on Thursday indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro alongside 36 other individuals accused of crimes of violent abrogation of the Democratic State of Law, coup d’état, and criminal organization in an attempt to keep the incumbent president in power after the 2022 elections results. The police said that the list of [...]
US president-elect Donald Trump nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to head the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Thursday, hours after controversial former congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew his nomination to the post. Bondi previously joined President Trump’s defense in his 2019 impeachment trial. Announcing his new pick, Trump touted Bondi as being “very tough [...]
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Friday that a staggering 133 death sentences were carried out in the last month. The detailed findings, released through HRANA’s media platform, underscore serious challenges in human rights protection within the country. According to the report, during the month of Aban according to the Persian calendar (October [...]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday denounced the International Criminal Court’s issuing of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He maintained that the ICC was “interfering in an ongoing conflict for political purposes” and that he would defy it by inviting the Israeli leader to Hungary. In a post on X [...]
A New York federal court on Thursday indicted Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and other executives of his renewable energy company. The charges include conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud and substantive securities fraud in a multi-billion USD scheme to obtain funds from US investors and global financial institutions on the basis of false and [...]
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