Category: World

Cameron John Wagenius, 22, a former Army soldier who was most recently stationed in Texas, was sentenced today to 70 months in prison and ordered to pay $294,978 in restitution for conspiring to hack into telecommunications companies’ databases, access sensitive records, and extort the  companies by threatening to release the stolen data unless ransoms were […]

Thank you, Chair. I am making this statement on behalf of Canada, Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom. The recent Duma elections were held against a backdrop of severe political repression. As I have said before in this Council, Russia has closed down domestic opposition, squeezed out independent civil society and silenced the independent media. […]

A federal jury in the Middle District of Florida convicted a Cuban National for his role in an international alien smuggling and money laundering conspiracy. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Lazaro Alain Cabrera-Rodriguez, 28, of Hialeah, Florida, conspired with others to operate an alien smuggling organization (ASO), which encouraged thousands of Cuban […]

In the early days of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian armoured columns pushed east along the Zhytomyr highway towards Kyiv. Makariv, a small settlement of about 10,000 people 36 miles west of Kyiv, sat on their route. The town was wrecked in the month of fighting that ensued. Roughly 40% of the settlement’s infrastructure […]

As we heard today, over 100 million people are forcibly displaced worldwide.  For more than two thirds of refugees, displacement is not a passing crisis.  It lasts five years or more, with no durable solution in sight.  A childhood spent entirely in a camp. A home never returned to.  A family still waiting to rebuild. […]

Malachi Morgan Thomas, 24, of Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 40 years in prison for sexual exploitation of children and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). On April 2, Thomas pled guilty to one count of production of CSAM and one count of possession of CSAM. According to court documents, Thomas used a Snapchat account, […]

Across the European Union, an active policy debate is underway to transform how qualifications and professional credentials from third-country nationals are recognized. Facing persistent structural labor shortages in key sectors—including healthcare, engineering, information technology, and construction—EU institutions and member states are seeking ways to modernize administrative frameworks, reduce processing times, and better integrate non-EU talent […]

Tens of thousands of civilians in Government of Yemen-controlled areas who have been displaced by escalating Houthi violence will be supported by new UK funding, announced today in response to the declining humanitarian situation in Yemen. Delivered through the UN emergency appeal for Yemen, the £10m package will provide access to child nutrition and food […]

In the wake of the Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD) electoral success in the Saxony-Anhalt state election, commentators both in Germany and internationally have expressed concern with the party’s extreme right-wing policies. Among these concerns are recent calls from party elites to adopt “remigration” policies. The AfD has a lot in common with the far right […]

– Advertisement – Whilst a wealth tax has been the subject of debate in Austria and many other EU countries for years, in Switzerland it has long been an integral part of the standard tax system. Its origins date back more than 200 years. Today, all cantons levy a wealth tax, and the municipalities are […]