Amnesty International called on Mozambican authorities to end attacks on protesters and journalists during nationwide demonstrations after it was announced that Daniel Chapo and the ruling party Frente de Libertação de Moçambique (FRELIMO) won the country’s general elections on October 9. Khanyo Farisè, Amnesty International’s deputy regional director for East and Southern Africa, said: Mozambique’s authorities [...]

Google won a court challenge on Wednesday against the €1.49 billion EU antitrust fine that was imposed in 2019 for anti-trust violations related to its digital advertising business.  Since 2003, Google has managed an ad intermediation platform called AdSense, which allows third-party websites to display Google ads in response to user queries. In 2019, the [...]

Police in Munich, Germany engaged in a shootout with a gunman near the Israeli Consulate on Thursday, ultimately fatally wounding him. Previously, the perpetrator had fired shots at the Nazi Documentation Center, the Consulate General of Israel, and two other buildings in connection with the crimes, the Bavarian Police reported.  It was revealed that a [...]

A court in Russia’s Altai Republic sentenced journalist Sergei Mikhailov to 8 years in prison for spreading “false information” about the Russian army’s invasion of Ukraine. The journalist was initially detained in the spring of 2022 in Lyubertsy, near Moscow.. The court sentenced Sergei Mikhailov to eight years in general regime colony, a four-year ban [...]

Russia’s Investigative Committee opened a fraud case on Thursday against former deputy defense minister Pavel Popov. On the same day, the Garrison Military Court ordered him held until October 29 in a decision by Judge Andrey Tolkachevo. According to Svetlana Petrenko, a representative of the Investigative Committee, while Popov was in charge of the military-themed [...]