North Korea launched Thursday around 10 suspected short-range ballistic missiles to its eastern sea and attacked the global positioning system, the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff reported. The missiles flew about 350 km and landed in the East Sea, an area in which the South Korea hosts major air force bases. Although North Korea [...]

It has not even been 24 hours since former US President Donald Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, and US Republican politicians have reacted with one accord, slamming the trial as a politically motivated sham while calling into question the impartiality of Judge Juan Merchan and the New York [...]

Multiple media outlets reported Wednesday that 560 million Ticketmaster customers may have been compromised in a data breach by ShinyHunters, a known hacker group.   The group claimed in an online forum that 1.3 terabytes of Ticketmaster customer data, including names, phone numbers, addresses and credit card details of customers had been stolen.  They are asking [...]

The United States sanctioned five current and former Ugandan officials on Thursday for their involvement in corrupt practices and human rights violations, making the individuals ineligible for entry into the US. Speaker of Parliament Anita Among, former Minister of Karamoja Affairs Mary Goretti Kututu, former Minister of State for Karamoja Affairs Agnes Nandutu and Minister [...]

The Slovenian government on Thursday endorsed a motion to recognize a Palestinian state and and sent for parliamentary approval. Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob announced on Monday that, after a series of consultations, he would place on the agenda of a Thursday government meeting a decision to forward recognition of Palestine to the National Assembly. [...]

The International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies has lost 24 humanitarian aid workers in the Israel-Hamas conflict in 2024, according to president Kate Forbes’ statement on Thursday. She asked all states to respect their neutrality and work of delivering humanitarian aid to war zones and high-risk areas. In Kate Forbes’ statement, [...]

Australia’s Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report on Thursday calling for establishing a federal human rights act. The recommendation is the result of the committee’s inquiry, which began in March 2023, into the scope and effectiveness of Australia’s current human rights legislation. The committee was made up of 104 civil society organizations [...]

The Supreme Court decided Thursday that government officials cannot indirectly suppress free speech through coercion, reinforcing their previous decision in Bantam Books, Inc. v. Sullivan. Justice Sotomayor, writing for a unanimous court, said a government official “can share her views freely and criticize particular beliefs, and she can do so forcefully in the hopes of [...]

US Supreme Court Justice John Roberts declined senators’ request on Thursday to discuss Justice Alito’s Appeal to Heaven and the upside-down American flag controversy, which raised questions about the US Supreme Court’s ethics and impartiality. Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (Democrat, Illinois) and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat, Rhode Island) wrote Roberts a letter a week [...]

JURIST News Managing Editor JP Leskovich and Deputy Editorial Director William Hibbitts contributed to this article. A Manhattan jury has found former US President Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree in his New York hush money criminal trial. Prosecutors alleged that Trump falsified records to [...]