Recent Updates
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What to know about the unprecedented floods that killed more than 200 in Spain
International 11/04/2024In a matter of minutes, flash floods caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain swept away almost everything in their path. With no time to react, people were trapped in vehicles, homes and businesses. Many died and thousands of livelihoods were shat...
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South Korean court acquits former police chief over deadly crowd crush
International 10/17/2024A South Korean court found the former police chief of the country’s capital and two other officers not guilty over a botched response to a Halloween crowd crush that killed nearly 160 people in 2022.The verdict by the Seoul Western District Cou...
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Senior Hong Kong journalist is sentenced to prison in sedition case
International 09/26/2024A Hong Kong court sentenced a former editor of a shuttered news publication to 21 months in prison on Thursday in a sedition case that is widely seen as an indicator of media freedom in the city, once hailed as a beacon of press freedom in Asia. A se...
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Former Singaporean minister pleads guilty to receiving illegal gifts
International 09/24/2024A former Singaporean cabinet minister pleaded guilty to charges of receiving illegal gifts Tuesday, in the Asian financial hub’s first ministerial criminal trial in nearly half a century.Former Transport Minister S. Iswaran pleaded guilty to on...
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Algerian court certifies Tebboune’s landslide reelection win
International 09/14/2024Algeria’s constitutional court on Saturday certified the landslide victory of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in last weekend’s election after retabulating vote counts that he and his two opponents had called into question.The court said t...
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Protesters storm Mexico’s Senate after ruling party wins votes for court overhaul
International 09/11/2024Hundreds of protesters broke into Mexico’s Senate on Tuesday as lawmakers weighed a contentious plan to overhaul the country’s judiciary, forcing the body to take a temporary recess for the safety of the senators.The shut down came just h...
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General strike in Israel over hostages found dead in Gaza reflects political divisions
International 09/02/2024A rare general strike in Israel to protest the failure to return hostages held in Gaza led to disruptions around the country on Monday, while U.S. President Joe Biden added to the pressure by saying Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu isn&rsquo...
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Venezuela’s Supreme Court certifies Maduro’s claims that he won presidential election
International 08/25/2024Venezuela’s Supreme Court has backed President Nicolás Maduro’s claims that he won last month’s presidential election and said voting tallies published online showing he lost by a landslide were forged.The ruling is the lates...
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UN court says Israel’s presence in occupied Palestinian territories is illegal
International 07/19/2024The top United Nations court said Friday that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and called on it to end, and for settlement construction to stop immediately, issuing an unprecedented, sweeping condemnation of...
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Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison
International 07/15/2024Albania’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a verdict of the lower courts keeping a former elected mayor from the country’s Greek minority in prison after he was convicted of buying votes.A Supreme Court statement said that it upheld the ver...
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Julian Assange: WikiLeaks founder pleads guilty, secures his freedom
International 06/24/2024WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets Wednesday in a deal with Justice Department prosecutors that secures his liberty and concludes a drawn-out legal saga that raised divisive questions abo...
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Three Americans in alleged coup attempt appear in Congo military court
International 06/07/2024Three Americans accused of being involved in last month’s coup attempt in Congo appeared in a military court in the country’s capital, Kinshasa, on Friday, along with dozens of other defendants who were lined up on plastic chairs before t...