A federal grand jury indicted former Google employee Linwei Ding on Wednesday for allegedly stealing information from Google while secretly working for two Chinese technology companies. Ding has been charged with four counts of theft of trade secrets in relation to his alleged plan to steal artificial intelligence (AI) information from Google. The Department of [...]

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South Africa filed an urgent request with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Wednesday for additional provisional measures and/or adjustments to court’s January 26 order and February 16 decision in country’s case against Israel, alleging Israel is carrying out genocide in the Gaza Strip. South Africa claimed their Wednesday request is necessitated by the [...]

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The Spanish Data Protection Agency (APED) ordered a precautionary measure on Wednesday against a global technology company, known as Tools for Humanity Corporation, to cease the collection and processing of personal data that it is carrying out in Spain under its Worldcoin project. Additionally, the company was ordered to keep hold of all personal data [...]

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Police in the Indian state of Jharkhand summoned reporters from four New Delhi news channels, Indian media reported Tuesday, after former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren filed a police report against senior Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials. Reporters from News18, Zee News, Aaj Tak and News24 were summoned as part of the ongoing investigation. The ED, India’s economic law enforcement [...]

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The Swedish Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday the guilty verdict and life sentence of Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian official convicted for his involvement in a mass execution of political prisoners in Iran in 1988. Nouri was previously arrested in 2019 at a Swedish airport on charges of grave violations of international law and 24 [...]

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Russia dismissed arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Lieutenant General Sergei Kobylash and Admiral Viktor Sokolov of the Russian Armed Forces on Wednesday, each allegedly responsible for war crimes committed in Ukraine. The arrest warrants were issued by a 3 judge- bench at the ICC against the two Russian commanders for directing [...]

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a new superseding indictment Tuesday against Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and his wife Nadine Menendez. The superseding indictment added new obstruction of justice charges against the couple in the ongoing case for bribery, honest services wire fraud, extortion and acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Egypt. The [...]

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US lawmakers in the House of Representatives introduced a bill on Tuesday aimed at curbing the influence of social media apps controlled by the US’s foreign adversaries, such as TikTok, which is owned by China-based ByteDance. The bill, Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, comes amid increasing concern from US lawmakers over the [...]

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Italy detained a German non-governmental rescue vessel Humanity 1 for 20 days, after the Libyan Coast Guard intervened in the rescue operation with armed forces. SOS Humanity, the German search and rescue organisation, contended that the Italian authorities detained the ship based on false accusations and demanded the ship be released immediately. The captain of [...]

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The Czech Republic’s upper house passed a new law to increase gun control within the nation months following an increase in gun violence, including the worst mass shooting in the nation’s history where a lone gunman killed 22 people at Charles University in Prague in December 2023. Debate on this legislation was already underway before [...]

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