Category: World

U.S. Attorney’s Office – Northern District of Iowa SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Paul William Flett, 44, of Humboldt, Iowa, was sentenced on June 3, 2025, in U.S. District Court in Sioux City to 15 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting a minor. Flett pleaded guilty on January 23, 2025, to one count of sexual […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Eleanor Hunton Hoppe, 46, of Charlottesville, Virginia, has been sentenced to 135 months (over 11 years) in federal prison for distributing child pornography as part of a disturbing plot to sexually abuse a minor. The sentencing was announced by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro for the District of Columbia, FBI Acting Special […]

U.S. Attorney’s Office – Eastern District of VirginiaNorfolk, Va. – A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for kidnapping a woman in Norfolk, Virginia, and transporting her across multiple states before abandoning her at a hospital in South Carolina. According to court records and trial evidence, on March 17, 2022, […]

LONDON — The United States and China have reached a preliminary trade agreement following two days of high-level negotiations in London, officials from both sides confirmed Tuesday. The framework agreement will now be submitted to U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping for formal approval before it can be implemented. The latest round […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a civil forfeiture complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking to seize more than $7.74 million in cryptocurrency allegedly laundered on behalf of the North Korean government in violation of U.S. sanctions. The complaint alleges that North Korean IT workers unlawfully […]

June 2025 – The World Bank has issued a stark warning about the trajectory of the global economy, slashing its growth forecast for 2025 to 2.3%, marking the slowest pace of expansion since the 2008 global financial crisis. In its latest Global Economic Prospects report, the Bank attributes the slowdown to rising protectionism, elevated tariff […]

Maiduguri, Nigeria – The Auxiliary Bishop of Maiduguri, Most Rev. John Bakeni, has issued an urgent call for prayers following the abduction of Fr. Alphonsus Afina, a Catholic priest kidnapped by suspected jihadist militants in northeastern Nigeria. In a message sent to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), Bishop Bakeni confirmed that Fr. Afina […]

The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States and the Kingdom of Spain. Begin Text: The Kingdom of Spain hosted a meeting of senior diplomatic officials from the Small Group of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS/Daesh today in Madrid.  Spanish Deputy Minister of Foreign and Global Affairs Diego Martínez […]

June 10, 2025 | Miami, FL — A federal jury has convicted Gary Cox, 79, CEO of Arizona-based Power Mobility Doctor Rx, LLC (DMERx), for orchestrating a massive healthcare fraud conspiracy that bilked Medicare and other federal health programs out of more than $1 billion. The verdict marks one of the largest fraud convictions in […]

West Africa Faces Deepening Crisis as Jihadist Influence Spreads Al-Qaeda affiliate Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) has emerged as West Africa’s most powerful insurgent force, commanding up to 6,000 fighters. Regional counterinsurgency strategies are inadvertently aiding its expansion, as security force abuses allow JNIM to claim moral legitimacy. Alongside Islamic State-Sahel Province, JNIM has entrenched […]