The FBI is currently investigating a cyber-attack on a Trump campaign website, according to an FBI statement to the Associated Press. Trump blamed the attack on the Iranian government but claimed that only publicly available information was compromised. Politico, the Washington Post, and the New York Times reported receiving internal Trump campaign documents from the hack. The material included [...]

The leading opposition party in Venezuela is calling for protests around the world this Saturday to dispute the electoral victory of incumbent President Nicolás Maduro, which was upheld by the country’s Supreme Court of Justice. President of the Court Caryslia Beatriz Rodríguez stated that the decision is final and not appealable. Both Maduro and opposition [...]

Armed attackers injured at least 10 Guarani and Kaiowá Indigenous peoples reclaiming their land in Lagoa Rica, Brazil on Saturday. The attackers were mobilized by misinformation on social media characterizing the legal reclamation of Guarani and Kaiowá land as an “invasion” beyond the land that was allocated for reclamation. The attackers are alleged to have [...]

The Council of the EU on Monday announced that existing sanctions will extend to 28 new individuals for participation in “ongoing internal repression and human rights violations in Belarus”.  These sanctions restrict listed individuals or entities from traveling to or within the EU and forbid EU citizens and companies from making funds available to these [...]

The government of Tanzania is implementing policies intended to force Maasai residents to relocate outside of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, according to a report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday. HRW reported that the government has utilized tactics such as cutting essential public services “including schools and health centres,” banning residents from growing crops, [...]

A US federal court dismissed a Republican National Committee (RNC) challenge on Sunday to a Mississippi law that allows validly cast mail-in votes to be counted for up to five business days after election day. Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi decided that since there is [...]

An ongoing march to parliament organized by young people over corruption in the Uganda government led to the arrests of protestors on Tuesday. Joel Ssenyonyi, the leader of the parliamentary opposition, also alleged in a Ugandan parliament speech that police have used excessive force against protestors. The Associated Press (AP) has reported a heavy police [...]

Police in Uganda allegedly surrounded and raided the opposition National Unity Platform’s (NUP) headquarters on Monday ahead of a planned march to parliament on Tuesday that aims to protest corruption under the present regime. The NUP reported that the roads to the party’s headquarters had been blocked, and “several leaders have been violently arrested.” The [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that sought to compel the Biden administration to withdraw military, diplomatic, and financial support from Israel on Monday. The court ruled that the case was “not justiciable under the political question doctrine.” This doctrine, based on the separation of powers [...]

Israel’s airforce conducted a strike on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees’s (UNRWA) Abu Oraiban School building in Nuseirat refugee camp on Sunday. The strike killed at least 17 people, according to sources from Gaza’s civil defense agency, quoted by Al Jazeera. Israel stated that the strike was directed against “terrorists [...]