Category: World

The Department of Justice announced charges against more than 25 individuals as part of a nationwide crackdown targeting the foreign terrorist organization (FTO), Tren de Aragua (TdA). Many of the defendants charged in this Homeland Security Task Force operation are illegal aliens from Venezuela, Colombia, and Honduras. TdA has been linked to various violent crimes […]

A dual Canadian American Citizen pleaded guilty today for his role in a human smuggling conspiracy that resulted in the deaths of a family, including two children under the age of three, in the St. Lawrence River. According to court documents, Timothy Oakes, 35, from the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Territory in Canada, was a key […]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk strongly condemned the rising use of these weapons in the brutal war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) which recently entered a fourth year.  “Armed drones have now become by far and away the leading cause of civilian deaths,” he said.  “This increasing reliance on drones allows hostilities to […]

New UK sanctions target organisations and individuals who threaten international and UK security.  Action demonstrates UK commitment to countering Iranian threats to UK national security, regional stability, and the global economy.  Sanctions will deter attacks against dissidents overseas and disrupt illicit revenue generation for the Iranian regime. Organisations and individuals enabling hostile Iranian activity are amongst those being targeted under new sanctions announced by the Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper, today (11 May). The measures come in response to Iranian action against global security and its use of […]

The vessel arrived off the Canary Islands after weeks at sea at the centre of an international public health response triggered by a hantavirus outbreak that has claimed three lives. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is leading a team in Tenerife, stressed that the risk to the wider public remains low. “This is not […]

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) is launching the next phase of its flagship economic development programme, the International Growth Centre (IGC). The IGC generates independent, rigorous research to inform economic growth policy making in low and middle-income countries. In September 2026, the IGC will enter a new phase to maximise impact and sustainability, characterised […]

Last week the Department of Justice announced the launch of the remission compensation process to provide recovery to victims of AirBit Club, a purported virtual currency mining and trading company that was a pyramid scheme. Beginning in late 2015, promoters marketed AirBit Club as a multilevel marketing club. Promoters promised victims that AirBit Club memberships […]

“My strong appeal is for the negotiations to go on until that diplomatic solution is found, the ceasefire to be maintained, and in between, the Strait of Hormuz to be completely open…Any restart of the fighting would have terrible consequences,” António Guterres said. Speaking in Nairobi ahead of the Africa Forward Summit, the UN chief […]

This page lists the entities and individuals designated on 11 May 2026 under the UK’s Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.  Entities and individuals involved in the forced deportation, re-education, and militarisation of Ukrainian children:  Yulia Sergeevna VELICHKO  Nadezhda Nikolaevna BOLTENKO   Andrey Alexandrovich USTINSKIKH  Grigory Alexandrovich GUROV  Vladislav Nikolaevich GOLOVIN  Mikhail Yuryevich DRUZHININ   Olga Sergeyevna DRUZHININA  Iryna Viktorivna KRAVCHENKO   […]

The UK has sanctioned 85 individuals and entities involved in the forced deportation, indoctrination and militarisation of Ukrainian children, alongside those driving Russia’s information warfare campaigns  In some of the toughest action to date, the UK is exposing and combatting hostile Russian activity across multiple fronts, including recent attempts to interfere in Armenian elections  An additional £1.2 million in UK funding will help identify and return Ukrainian children to their homes and communities The UK is today [Monday 11 May] exposing and taking action against Russia’s hostile […]