The US Department of Justice on Friday shut down its national database for reporting misconduct incidents of federal law enforcement officers. In an update on its website, the Department stated that user agencies can no longer add data to the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD), giving no reason for the closure. The decision came [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday unanimously rejected the arguments of a group of Holocaust survivors demanding that Hungary pay reparations for confiscating their property during World War II. The court’s opinion in Republic of Hungary v. Simon was delivered by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who stated that foreign states are granted “presumptive immunity from suit [...]

Argentina’s political opposition on Saturday called for President Javier Milei to face an impeachment trial in the Chamber of Deputies over his promotion of a cryptocurrency which crashed shortly later. In a post on X, Milei had recommended a crypto coin named $LIBRA, which plummeted just a few hours later, prompting the president to delete [...]

Tens of thousands of students on Saturday protested in the Serbian city of Kragujevac, demanding justice for the victims of the November 2024 railway disaster. The protest, which lasted 15 hours and marked the culmination of a four-day student march, was symbolically named “Let’s Meet at Sretenje.” Kragujevac was the first capital of the modern [...]

Georgia police arrested several anti-government protesters on Sunday, including two prominent opposition leaders, following demonstrations demanding new parliamentary elections. Nika Melia, former chairman of one of the main opposition parties, and Gigi Ugulava, former mayor of capital Tbilisi, were arrested as thousands of protesters attempted to block a highway entrance into the capital. Ia post [...]

The Israeli ban on the United Nations Relief an Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) on Thursday came into effect despite criticism and backlash, impacting the work of the organization in Gaza and the West Bank. In October of 2024, the Israeli parliament passed two laws mandating the cessation of UNRWA operations in Gaza and [...]

Thousands of protesters gathered Sunday outside Greece’s parliament, demanding justice for the 57 people who died two years ago in the Tempi train disaster. The recent surge in protests was triggered by the release of several audio recordings from the emergency helpline, where victims trapped in the wreckage were heard desperately calling for help. Protesters [...]

Four former officials from North Macedonia’s ruling party VMRO-DPMNE on Thursday were released by a court after being convicted for organizing a violent attack on the Parliament in 2017. Trajko Veljanovksi, a former parliamentary speaker, along with Spiro Ristovski and Mile Janakieski, both former cabinet ministers, and Vladimir Atanasovski, a former head of national security, [...]

Egyptian human rights activist Hossam Bahgat was released on bail Sunday after facing charges of “joining and financing a terrorist group” and “spreading false news,” according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). Bahgat, the executive director of the EIPR, was summoned last week by Egypt’s Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) and questioned for [...]

Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) on Saturday charged former Member of Parliament and businessman Vadym Novynskyi with high treason and incitement of religious hatred in absentia. Despite Novynskyi not being explicitly named by the statement of the law enforcement agency, local media reported that the description and thumbnail of the video attached showed that [...]