Category: World

A San Antonio-based member of a Nihilistic Violent Extremist (NVE) group related to the 764 network was sentenced today to 40 years in prison, lifetime supervised release, and to pay $10,000 in restitution for racketeering activity and multiple acts relating to the sexual exploitation of children. According to court documents, Alexis Aldair Chavez, also known […]

The UN’s sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, announced on Wednesday that the individual award will go to Professor Serigne Magueye Gueye of Senegal, while the institutional prize will be presented to the Fondation Bonne Action Umugiraneza of Burundi.  The annual award recognises outstanding contributions to breakthroughs which boost reproductive health and solve population growth-related […]

Three Texas tax return preparers – a tax return preparation business owner and two of his employees – were sentenced today to 50 months, 26 months, and 18 months in prison for their roles in conspiring to file false tax returns on behalf of clients. Two other tax return preparers who admitted to filing false […]

Remarks as Prepared for Delivery, “The Innovation Dance: Navigating the Balance of Intellectual Property and Antitrust in a Global World” Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me to speak at the Hudson Institute Forum for Intellectual Property. I am very pleased to be here. The Hudson Institute’s mission is, in part, to “challenge conventional […]

“People are in shock and despair; formal meetings are not enough,” he said in a virtual briefing from the capital, Caracas, alongside representatives of the UN, Brazil, Türkiye, United States, Venezuela and the European Commission. The quakes have killed more than 3,500 people and injured at least 16,740 others, and 6,462 people have been rescued, […]

A Maryland man was sentenced today in connection with charges stemming from his attempt to join and fight for ISIS.  U.S. District Judge Adam B. Abelson sentenced Michael Sam Teekaye Jr., 22, to 15 years in prison followed by lifetime supervised release, for attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Teekaye […]

Amid reports that three merchant vessels were hit along with Iranian targets, IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez condemned “reckless attacks” in the past two days against several ships transiting the narrow waterway, a vital conduit for a significant proportion of the world’s energy needs. Huge risk, warns Guterres UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the resumption of […]

Many thanks, Madam President, and our sincere thanks to the DRC for convening this important discussion and to you for your personal leadership on this agenda. I also extend my thanks to the briefers. To Ms Jocelyn, your briefing was a stark reminder of the devastating impact of ongoing gang violence on women and girls […]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit yesterday denied a petition for review in a legal challenge to the Maritime Administration’s issuance of a deepwater port license to Delfin LNG. In denying the petition, the court held that three environmental groups failed to establish standing. The court did not rule on the merits […]

The mission found “indicators of a genocidal path” in a report released in February. The new report builds on the earlier findings by providing additional evidence on sexual violence, forced disappearances, detention and mass killings. “The patterns we documented in El Fasher – including encirclement, attacks on civilian infrastructure, restrictions on humanitarian access, and widespread abuses […]