New York Judge Juan Merchan on Friday delayed former US president Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money criminal case to November 26, with the new date scheduled three weeks after the US presidential election. Trump’s attorneys requested the postponement in August to prepare a potential appeal and avoid a “politically prejudicial” effect on the [...]
Hungary on Friday confirmed its intention to send migrants to Brussels in protest of European Union (EU) rules on accepting asylum seekers. Rétvári Bence, Hungary’s deputy minister of interior, held a press conference flanked by buses to affirm the country’s plan to provide free fare for migrants on the bus route to the EU’s capital. [...]
A visually impaired Ph.D. applicant in Ghana, Isaac Anin Baah, has filed a lawsuit against the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), one of the nation’s premier higher educational institutions based in Kumasi, after his admission was unexpectedly revoked. Mr. Baah is represented by Carruthers Tetteh, a lawyer who is also visually impaired. [...]
The US and Guatemala governments announced on Thursday that Nicaragua has released 135 political prisoners on humanitarian grounds after months of negotiations between the US and Nicaragua. The US also facilitated the voluntary transfer of political prisoners from Nicaragua to Guatemala. In a joint statement, the US and Guatemala clarified that the released political prisoners [...]
The British government announced Wednesday it will pass legislation to control 16 drugs that were not previously regulated. Among the soon-to-be-regulated substances was xylazine, a controversial veterinary medication known as a “zombie drug,” which causes exhaustion and skin lesions that resist healing. Caroline Copeland, the director of the National Programme on Substance Use Morality and [...]
A US federal appeals court on Wednesday held the Internet Archive’s Free Digital Library infringes upon publishers’ copyright protections. The appeal decision affirms a lower court ruling in a 2023 lawsuit initiated by US publishers which argued that the Internet Archive (IA), a nonprofit organization, engaged in copyright infringement by scanning purchased or donated physical [...]
Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, pleaded guilty Thursday to federal tax charges in a surprise move just before jury selection was set to begin in his Los Angeles trial. Biden, 54, admitted to failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019 while spending millions on what prosecutors [...]
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) described a continuing “climate of fear” in Venezuela on Tuesday after the issuing of an arrest warrant for the opposition’s presidential candidate, Edmundo Gonzalez. The office reiterated deep concerns over the situation in Venezuela, where controversy over the declaration of Nicolas Maduro’s victory [...]
The United Kingdom’s newly elected Labour government is aiming to accelerate global efforts to establish a tribunal capable of trying Russian officials for crimes of aggression in Ukraine, according to Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood. This initiative seeks to breathe new life into a process that has faced numerous hurdles over the past [...]
The former governor of Lebanon’s central bank (BDL), Riad Salameh, was arrested on Tuesday over alleged corruption. This occurred after he appeared before the public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation concerning the embezzlement of BDL funds amounting to over $40 million. The embezzlement is alleged to have occurred during the dealings of BDL and [...]