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Belgian police intervened at the National Conservatism Conference (NatCon) on Tuesday, following an order prohibiting the event. The order, issued by the mayor of the Brussels municipality of Saint-Joose-ten-Noode Emir Kir, was aimed at preventing public disorder. The conference, set for April 16 and 17, faced disruption on its first day due to the police [...]

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) released a statement detailing the arrest of three additional men, who the FSB claim were responsible for the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia on March 22. Over a dozen others have already been arrested in connection with the attack, which resulted in the death [...]

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) reported on Saturday that security services detained 11 people in connection with the ISIS-claimed attack on the Crocus City Hall music venue on the outskirts of Moscow that killed at least 133. The FSB added that four who directly participated in the attack were among the detained. The security service [...]

Aidana Tastanova is a Kazakhstan national and a 4th-year law student attending the Moscow State Institute of International Relations under a Kazakh government scholarship.  In May 2024, Kazakhstan, together with Australia, will head the International Conference of the IAEA on Nuclear Security. This comes in the wake of the 67th session of the General Conference [...]

“So far from it being unjust to punish him, it would be unjust if his wrongs were allowed to go unpunished.” Nuremberg Tribunal (1946) At the beginning of 2024, former President Donald J. Trump’s most conspicuously unsupportable legal claim has been his personal immunity from criminal prosecution. With this claim, Mr. Trump and his lead [...]

US Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) filed a motion on Wednesday asking US District Judge Sidney Stein to dismiss charges that he allegedly conspired to act as a foreign agent of Egypt. The motion to dismiss relates to an indictment filed in October that accused Menendez of supporting the interests of several businessmen and the Egyptian [...]

Following winning the Netherlands elections, Geert Wilders, a politician known for his far-right stances, retracted a controversial bill he initially proposed in 2018. The bill, which called for a ban on mosques and the Quran, has been completely withdrawn by Wilders as of Monday. The proposed legislation seeks to outlaw practices and symbols associated with [...]

The Chinese government has increased mosque closures in the northern Ningxia region and Gansu province, according to a report released on Wednesday by Human Rights Watch. The government has previously faced international scrutiny for its treatment of Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, a Chinese Muslim ethnic minority. The report describes the closure of mosques in [...]

It is Thanksgiving Day. The aroma of turkey; of dressing; candied sweet potatoes; green bean casserole; cranberry sauce; freshly baked yeast rolls; giblet gravy, and of pies emanating from the kitchen fills our nostrils. Home is the place to be today. But have you ever given thought to the law of the gobbler? This Day in [...]

The US Supreme Court declined to review former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin’s state convictions for the murder of George Floyd on Monday. Chauvin was found guilty of murdering Floyd in 2020, prompting nationwide protests against police brutality and reigniting the Black Lives Matter movement. Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison on his [...]