Category: World

– Advertisement – Spain is regarded in Europe as a leading example in the protection of women against violence. The country combines specialised courts, the police, support services, prevention measures and electronic monitoring into a comprehensive system. At the same time, new forms of digital violence, such as deepfake pornography or the case of Collien […]

Francisco Javier Ravelo, of Coral Gables, Florida, was sentenced yesterday to 60 months in prison and three years of supervised release, during which he is not permitted to have any unsupervised contact with animals. Ravelo was sentenced in connection with his involvement with online groups dedicated to distributing videos depicting acts of extreme violence and […]

Children now constitute around half of the gang members who have taken de facto control of large swathes of the country, Vanessa Frazier told journalists at UN Headquarters, following her first fact-finding mission to the Caribbean island nation.  Some 18,000 schools are reported destroyed, damaged or non-functional.  “Today, children in Haiti are facing levels of violence […]

A Georgian citizen was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for laundering more than $1.1 million in illicit health care fraud proceeds to his co-conspirators located abroad.  According to court documents, Irakli Nakashidze, 35, a Georgian citizen residing in Miami, Florida, owned ABRH Care Inc. (ABRH), an alleged medical supply company located in Miami. […]

Ramiz Alakbarov, UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said the situation across the Occupied Palestinian Territory was becoming “increasingly precarious”, with mounting violence in both Gaza and the West Bank. “In Gaza, delays in the implementation of resolution 2803, alongside daily violence and a continuing humanitarian crisis, have replaced the early […]

This week, the Justice Department’s National Fraud Enforcement Division continued to advance its mission to fight fraud and protect taxpayers.    Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald, along with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz, U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen, and FBI Co-Deputy Director Christopher Raia, announced unprecedented […]

The UN does not have access to the area – which is under temporary Russian occupation – and cannot verify the details of the reported strike. UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban said the dormitory had reportedly housed at least 86 adolescents aged between 14 and 18. “The attack reportedly left six dead and dozens […]

Aimee Bock has been sentenced to 500 months in prison for her lead role in a $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen. As proven at trial, Aimee Bock, 44, was the founder and executive director of Feeding Our Future, […]

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday raised the national risk assessment for DRC to “very high” – although the global risk remains “low”. So far, 82 cases and seven deaths have been confirmed in DRC, but WHO says the real scale of the outbreak is likely far larger, with nearly 750 suspected cases […]

We have seen the reports cited by the Russian Federation regarding an alleged drone hit in Starobilsk, Ukrainian territory currently under temporary Russian occupation. At this stage, as we have heard from the briefers, the incident has not been objectively or independently verified.  And as Russia refuses to allow any independent verification, we may sadly never get […]