Category: World

The new head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says global cooperation is essential and already adapting as criminal networks become more complex, sophisticated and interconnected. Monica Juma has taken up the dual role of Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Director-General of the United Nations […]

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division filed a proposed settlement today to resolve the United States’ civil antitrust lawsuit against OhioHealth Corporation (OhioHealth) challenging the company’s anticompetitive contract restrictions. The proposed settlement would make healthcare more affordable by forbidding OhioHealth from imposing terms in its contracts with commercial health insurers that deter budget-conscious healthcare plans that […]

The development comes in the wake of the agreement between the United States and Iran, announced on Sunday, after more than three months of fighting and wider war across the Middle East and the Gulf region.  A UN force, UNIFIL, has been deployed for nearly 50 years in southern Lebanon, where hostilities escalated between Israeli forces and […]

A Mexican national was sentenced today to 14 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to import approximately 1,900 kilograms of cocaine into the United States. According to court documents, Jesus Rauda-Avila, 46, was a member of a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization (DTO) led by Marisela Flores-Torruco that was responsible for importing multi-hundred-kilogram […]

People are walking along this busy main road as merchants sell fruit and household goods from small stalls. This city scene is perhaps unremarkable, were it not for the fact that the fear of gang violence amongst the population has frequently scared people off the streets of the capital. It is estimated that at least […]

The Justice Department announced today charges against five men for an alleged plot to carry out an attack to kill government officials and others attending the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Freedom 250 event held at the White House last Sunday.  The FBI launched an investigation into the plot and identified a group of conspirators who […]

Today, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division moved to intervene in a lawsuit challenging a program by the City of Evanston, Illinois, that distributes cash payments and financial assistance for housing solely to black persons, and their descendants, and not to similarly situated persons of other races. The United States’ proposed complaint in intervention […]

Note: View motion for intervention and dismissal here. Yesterday, the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) filed a motion to intervene and to dismiss a private citizen lawsuit seeking to power down a large artificial intelligence (AI) facility in Southaven, Mississippi. The filings concern a case where private litigants sued xAI and its […]

Addressing the 15-member Council about the current situation on the ground, UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg said that while the 2022 truce between the Houthi rebels and the government continues to hold, the conflict is unresolved, with Yemenis bearing the cost of this uncertainty. “In meetings with Yemenis, we are told that entrenched […]

At lakeside markets along Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake by area, choosing fish to eat is part of daily life. A customer might pick a tilapia based on its freshness, size, price, and farmed or non-farmed origin, much like shoppers do in markets and supermarkets around the world. Whether grilled tilapia or salmon fillet, fish […]