A New Zealand helicopter pilot, Glen Malcolm Conning, was shot and killed on Monday by separatist fighters shortly after his helicopter landed in the remote village of Alama, located in the Papua province of Indonesia. Conning, 50, was working for the Indonesian aviation company PT Intan Angkasa Air Service. The attackers released four Indigenous Papuan [...]
Environmental advocacy group Just Stop Oil announced Tuesday that five supporters had been remanded to prison, which they say means the “number of people imprisoned in the UK for demanding action to address the climate crisis has now risen to 26.” The five supporters of Just Stop Oil appeared Tuesday morning in Manchester Magistrates’ Court [...]
Former Bangladeshi Minister for Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak was detained at an airport in the country’s capital Dhaka while attempting to flee to New Delhi, local media outlets reported Tuesday. According to the Dhaka Tribune, Palak, who served as the IT Minister in the recently ousted Awami League government, was detained [...]
The Public Ministry of Venezuela will commence a criminal investigation against opposition leaders Edmundo González and María Corina Machado, the attorney general of Venezuela, Tarek William Saab, announced on Monday. The official communication by the Ministry accuses the two opposition leaders of usurpation of official functions, dissemination of false information to cause uneasiness, instigating disobedience [...]
President of Bangladesh Mohammed Shahabuddin dissolved the country’s parliament following the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and weeks of deadly civil unrest, local news reported on Tuesday based on a press release from the president’s office. According to local media, President Shahabuddin took the decision to dissolve the parliament following a meeting with armed [...]
The German Federal Court of Justice rejected former Syrian senior intelligence officer Anwar Raslan’s appeal against his crimes against humanity conviction on Monday. Raslan entered Germany in 2014. In January 2022, Raslan was convicted of crimes against humanity in “the form of homicide, torture, serious deprivation of personal liberty, rape and sexual assault in coincidence [...]
The new UK government announced Tuesday its plan to invalidate the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023, which the previous parliament passed to sustain a minimum level of work in critical public sectors during strikes. Instead, it will pass new legislation called the Employment Rights Bill within 100 days of the new government’s formation. The [...]
The UN on Monday announced that nine staff members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) may have been involved in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and have consequently been dismissed. The firings come after an investigation by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) examined [...]
The European Union on Monday condemned Kosovo authorities’ closure of nine Post of Serbia branches, saying that the closures violate the agreements made under the EU-facilitated Dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia. In its statement, the EU said that any actions taken independently by Kosovo, without consulting or coordinating with Serbia, will not solve problems in [...]
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and Governor Jeff Landry announced their intention to request the dismissal of the lawsuit challenging the southern US state’s new legal requirement to display the Ten Commandments in public schools in a press conference on Monday. Louisiana became the first US state to require public school classrooms to display the [...]
