Category: World

DUBAI / DUBLIN — As regional hostilities intensify and missiles occasionally streak across the Gulf sky, a growing number of Irish citizens in the United Arab Emirates find themselves unable to escape the combat zone—not due to a lack of flights, but because of “trivial” legal travel bans. On Monday, March 9, 2026, the legal […]

  The EU stepped up its fight against unsafe products last year, with alerts through its rapid warning system rising 13% to 4,671, the highest level on record. The figures come from the European Commission’s annual Safety Gate report. Safety Gate is the EU’s rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products, allowing authorities from the […]

In Lebanon alone, nearly 700,000 people including around 200,000 children have been forced from their homes, “adding to the tens of thousands already uprooted from previous escalations”, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said. The development follows a weekend of escalating Israeli and U.S. strikes against Iran, counter-strikes by Iranian forces across Israel and explosions in […]

A Texas man was sentenced Friday to 90 months in prison for his role in a $59.9 million conspiracy to pay kickbacks and submit claims for medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME) to Medicare. According to court documents, Patrick Cassells, 65, of Fulshear, Texas, owned and operated three DME companies and concealed his role in […]

WASHINGTON / TEHRAN — As the regional conflict enters its second week, the Middle East faces a pivotal leadership transition and a hardening of war aims. On Sunday, March 8, 2026, the regional death toll surpassed 1,400 as the U.S. and Israel intensified air bombardments, and Tehran formally announced a successor to the slain Ayatollah […]

BUDAPEST/KYIV — Tensions between Kyiv and Budapest have reached a historic low after Hungarian counter-terrorism forces seized two armored vehicles carrying approximately $82 million in cash and gold. On Friday, March 6, 2026, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha formally accused Hungary of “state terrorism and racketeering,” labeling the detention of seven bank employees as a […]

Countries worldwide have dramatically ramped up their climate policies over the past two decades. The number of climate measures has quadrupled since 2000, with some datasets showing a fifteen-fold increase. Governments now deploy dozens of different policies simultaneously – carbon taxes, renewable energy subsidies, building codes, emissions standards, research funding, and more. They all work […]

Abdulkarim Farah, a Minneapolis man, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 57-months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for his role in providing a cash bribe to a juror in the first Feeding Our Future trial, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel N. Rosen. On April 22, 2024, seven defendants went to trial […]

The Department of Justice announced today the seizure of the LeakBase database, one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen data and cybercrime tools. According to an affidavit unsealed on March 3, the LeakBase forum had over 142,000 members and more than 215,000 messages between members. Available on the […]