The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it mistakenly killed three Israeli hostages who were holding up a white flag in Gaza on Friday. The names of the hostages are Yotam Haim, Samer Talalka and Alon Shamriz. The IDF announcement states that after the incident occurred, the bodies were transferred to Israeli territory for examination. [...]

UK Baroness Michelle Mone,  a Scottish businesswoman and a Conservative Party-appointed life peer who later left the party, admitted in an interview with the BBC published on Sunday that she stands to benefit from millions of pounds of profit received by personal protective equipment (PPE) company PPE Medpro, which had a contract with the UK [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Saturday urged Congolese authorities to investigate incidents of electoral violence that the human rights organization says imperil the country’s upcoming general elections. In its statement, HRW called attention to the various forms of violence and human rights abuses that have plagued the DRC’s political landscape in the lead-up to the [...]

A Vatican court sentenced Cardinal Angelo Becciu to 5.5 years in prison Saturday after the prelate was convicted of embezzlement and fraud in relation to a real estate investment scandal that cost the Vatican millions of Euros. The Cardinal was also handed a €8,000 fine and barred from holding public office in the Holy See. [...]

Nadia Murad, a human rights activist and recipient of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, and Yazidi-Americans filed a civil lawsuit against French industrial company Lafarge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Thursday. The complaints are under civil provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act, intending to obtain compensation from Lafarge [...]

A New York appeals court on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn a gag order imposed by a lower court judge in the state’s civil fraud trial against him and his family’s business. Though the appellate process remains ongoing, the civil trial came to an end on Wednesday. On Friday, Trump indicated [...]

A US federal jury Friday ordered former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani to pay $148M in damages to Ruby Freeman and Wandrea Mossin after accusing the two women of tampering with Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results. Giuliani must pay $16M to each plaintiff for defamation, $20M to each plaintiff for emotional distress and $75M in punitive [...]

The US Supreme Court refused to block Illinois’ assault weapon and high-capacity magazine ban on Thursday. This decision comes after the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit allowed the ban to go into effect in November. In a one-page order the Supreme Court stated, “The application for a writ of injunction pending certiorari [...]

The government of the Australian state of Tasmania is seeking to ban conversion therapy practices in a recently released draft legislation. The Bill, known as the Justice Miscellaneous (Conversion Practices) Bill 2024, follows the Tasmanian government’s promise last year to render conversion practices illegal after a report from the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute highlighted the [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called for an investigation into allegations that the Indian government was involved in assassination plots in the US and Canada on Friday. In September, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested there was a “potential link” between the government of India and the killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Nijjar was [...]