Claiming that he was “restoring law and order” in Kazakhstan, President Kasym-Jomart Tokayev announced Friday that he has ordered armed forces to “shoot and kill without warning” to quash an uprising ignited by surging consumer fuel prices. “I have ordered law enforcement organizations and the army to shoot and kill without warning,” Tokayev said in [...]

The Mexican Ministry of the Interior Thursday announced new rules requiring all Venezuelan nationals to secure a visa before entering Mexico as temporary visitors. This replaces older rules that allowed certain Venezuelan visitors to enter Mexico without a visa. The announcement, published in the Mexican Official Gazette of the Federation, cited legal authorities, including the Migration [...]

A Ukrainian court ordered Thursday the seizure of former President Petro Poroshenko’s assets. The seizure follows ongoing accusations of high treason against Poroshenko for facilitating the financing of Russian-backed separatist forces in eastern Ukraine. The Ukraine State Bureau of Investigation (SB) unveiled the investigation into Poroshenko in late December 2021. Poroshenko was accused of facilitating [...]

An group of anonymous gun owners (“the plaintiffs”) filed a federal Complaint Wednesday against California Attorney General (AG) Rob Bonta to prevent enforcement of Assembly Bill 171 (AB171), signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom in September, which allows the state to share personal information of gun owners with gun violence research organizations. The plaintiffs [...]

The California legislature proposed Assembly Bill 1594 (AB1594) Monday authorizing private citizens harmed by illegal gun use to sue manufacturers, distributors and sellers of firearms. The bill has been proposed under the direction and vision of California Governor Gavin Newsom who vowed to push this bill through the legislature in response to the Supreme Court [...]

The police departments of Mumbai and New Delhi have arrested four individuals in relation to the ‘Bulli Bai’ app, which targeted Muslim women by uploading their pictures for online auction without their consent. ‘Bulli Bai’ is a GitHub-based app that pretended to auction Muslim women. The app posted doctored images of hundreds of Muslim women, [...]

The Cybersecurity Administration of China (CAC) Wednesday published a draft of amendments to the Administrative Regulations on the Management of Mobile Internet Application Information Services issued in 2016. The draft contains 27 articles and places emphasis on data security, user privacy, and national security. The rules govern app providers and distribution platforms, requiring them to abide [...]

In a majority verdict Wednesday, a jury of the Bristol Crown Court in the UK found Sage Willoughby, Jake Skuse, Milo Ponsford, and Rhian Grahamm, dubbed the “Colston Four,” not guilty of criminal damage under the Criminal Damage Act 1971 for their involvement in pulling down an 1895 statue of slave trader Edward Colston in 2020.  [...]

The German competition regulator Bundeskartellamt Wednesday published a decision determining that Google fulfills the criteria for companies having paramount significance for competition across markets. The Bundeskartellamt can now proceed against Google under the recently introduced Section 19a GWB, which seeks to limit the anticompetitive effects of large digital companies in the digital economy. The Bundeskartellamt [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Wednesday that thousands of ethnic Tigrayans have been deported from Saudi Arabia and abused by Ethiopian authorities upon their return. Tigray, a northern region of Ethiopia, has been a center of conflict for years. According to the New York Times, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) “dominated” Ethiopian politics for [...]