A Polish government official Friday wrote on X that seven people have been arrested and charged by Poland’s Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) as part of an investigation into a scandal involving irregularities in the issuance of Polish visas. The scandal was reported by Polish news outlet Onet, who claims to have a Ministry of Foreign [...]

US Department of Justice (DOJ) Special Counsel David Weiss revealed on Thursday that a federal grand jury indicted President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden on three firearms charges. The charges come almost two months after a federal district judge rejected a plea deal in which Hunter Biden would have avoided federal gun charges in exchange [...]

The UK announced Friday that it had officially proscribed the Wagner Group as a terrorist organization, making it an offense to “belong, or profess to belong, to a proscribed organisation in the UK or overseas.” The move comes several weeks after the government presented a bill containing the proscription to Parliament on September 6.   Despite [...]

A group of 72 human rights organizations called for the immediate and unconditional release of Adilur Rahman Khan, Secretary of the Bangladeshi human rights organization Odhikar, and ASM Nasiruddin Elan, Odhikar’s director, in a joint appeal on Thursday. Both men were convicted on charges of disseminating false information and sentenced to two years in prison. [...]

The Election Commission of Pakistan questioned on Thursday the neutrality of Pakistan’s caretaker government in holding national elections. The Election Commission alleged that the government compromises impartiality in the election process by unfairly favoring opponents of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan. In a letter the commission wrote to incumbent Prime Minister Anwar ul Haq [...]

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Minister of Communication and Media Patrick Muyaya told reporters on Thursday that the government was closely watching the case of Stanis Bujakera, a Congolese journalist who was arrested earlier this week. Actualite.cd, where Bujakera serves as Deputy Publication Director, published Mayaya’s comments and also reported that authorities moved Bujakera to [...]

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a $93 million settlement with Google, Inc. on Thursday in a lawsuit over the company’s location tracking practices. The lawsuit initially arose when Bonta accused Google of violating that several California Business and Professions Code (BPC) provisions regarding the company’s statements about their use and collection of users’ location [...]

The US Supreme Court temporarily stayed on Thursday a lower court ruling which would have restricted the Biden administration’s ability to encourage social media platforms to remove content it considers misleading. The decision temporarily halts a July preliminary injunction imposed upon the Biden administration by a federal court in Louisiana. In the Biden administration’s application [...]

The California legislature passed a bill on Wednesday requiring lawyers to notify the state bar if they suspect their peers are partaking in serious criminal activity, including conspiracy, insurrection and treason. Now that Senate Bill 40 (SB 40) has secured approval from both the California State Senate and State Assembly, the decision now rests with [...]

The Argentine Federal Police announced on Wednesday that they have destroyed a printing press in San Isidro, a city in the greater Buenos Aires area, which produces and offers for sale publications with pro-Nazi and antisemitic content. The Delegation of Argentine Israelite Associations (DAIA), the main organization for Argentina’s Jewish community, first undertook the case [...]