Category: World

  Europe-wide train booking and travel is about to get a lot easier and passenger rights will get a welcome boost too. The Commission has proposed new rules that simplify planning and booking for regional, long-distance and cross-border travel, particularly for rail journeys involving multiple operators, while better protecting passengers. As it stands, booking multiple-leg […]

For another student, Jérémie, dreams are shaped by loss. Displaced by conflict and grieving family members killed in the fighting, he shares a different ambition: “I want to be a general so that I can advocate for peace in the country.”  In eastern DRC, where violence escalated sharply in 2025, such aspirations are fragile.  ©UNICEF […]

A Georgia woman was sentenced today to 20 months in prison and three years of supervised release for cyberstalking, transmitting threats to kidnap or injure in interstate commerce and identity theft. “Gabryele Watson, an adult woman, stole a pregnant teenager’s identity and cruelly led on couples seeking to adopt a baby, only to later emotionally […]

Today, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Connecticut, Governor Ned Lamont, Attorney General William Tong, Chief State’s Attorney Patrick Griffin, and Deputy Chief State’s Attorney Eliot Prescott, challenging their unconstitutional attempt to regulate federal law enforcement officers through the so-called “Act Concerning Democracy and Government Accountability,” also known as Senate Bill 397. “Law enforcement officers risk […]

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California yesterday dismissed the complaint in Center for Biological Diversity v. Burgum – one of several cases challenging Sable Offshore Corp.’s oil and gas operations at the Santa Ynez Unit in the Santa Barbara Channel.  In April 2025, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued […]

The Justice Department announced today the arrest of Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, an Iraqi national and senior member of Kata’ib Hizballah, a U.S. designated foreign terrorist organization (FTO). Al-Saadi was charged by complaint with six counts of terrorism-related offenses for his activities as an operative of Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps […]

The Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division announced numerous enforcement actions in the past week, as prosecutors across the country pursued the criminals stealing American taxpayer dollars. Notably, a jury in the Southern District of Florida found the founder and owner of HealthSplash guilty for his role in operating a platform that generated false doctors’ […]

The vehicle was part of an inter-agency humanitarian mission led by OCHA, the UN humanitarian affairs office, and had been notified to the parties in advance. “The Secretary-General reiterates that international law, including international humanitarian law, must be respected at all times,” the statement read. “Civilians and civilian objects, including humanitarian relief personnel and objects used […]

This week, Donald Do, of Daly City, California, was arrested on federal wildlife trafficking charges. Do is charged with conspiracy and Lacey Act crimes related to submitting false paperwork to obtain a federal export permit and trying to ship protected turtles to Asia. The indictment alleges that between December 2022 and May 2024, Do and […]

Shortages of electricity, fuel, medicine and medical supplies are severely disrupting emergency care, blood banks, laboratories, immunization programmes and maternal and child health services, Edem Wosornu of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Altaf Musani of the World Health Organization (WHO) told journalists in New York via video link. Their […]