US President Joe Biden Thursday announced the US would extend a parole program previously offered to immigrants from Venezuela to immigrants from Cuba, Nicaragua and Haiti but reiterated that his administration would continue to enforce Title 42 in compliance with a recent order from the US Supreme Court. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will [...]
UK rail workers Tuesday launched their first day of strike action over disputes between workers and companies on pay, jobs and working conditions. The strike action is expected to affect 14 train operators from Tuesday through Friday, reducing rail travel to 20 percent of regular services. The National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers [...]
A Ukrainian prosecutor office Tuesday revealed the discovery of an alleged Russian torture chamber in the village of Oleksandrivka, located in the southern region of Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine. The announcement came from the Mykolaiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office, which also launched criminal proceedings for violating Ukrainian criminal law prohibiting cruel treatment of persons during war. Prosecutors [...]
Kosovo Thursday reopened the largest point of border crossing to Serbia following calls from the international community to deescalate rapidly rising tensions between the two countries. Serb protesters removed barricades along the border crossing following a Wednesday night meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić. Serbian media also reported that Monday’s order to increase Serbian Army’s [...]
The foreign ministers of G7 nations Thursday called on the Taliban to reverse their recent decision to bar women from working for national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the UK, the US and the EU condemned [...]
A Michigan federal judge Tuesday sentenced Adam Fox to 16 years in prison for leading a plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. In August, a federal jury convicted Fox on charges of conspiracy to kidnap the governor and conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction against persons or property. US District Judge Robert Jonker [...]
The EU and several international ambassadors Monday condemned recent attacks against television journalists covering the rising tensions in northern Kosovo. Adding to a count from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Monday’s incident marks the fourth time television journalists have been targeted in the region since the beginning of December. In response to the attacks, [...]
The US House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack on the Capitol Thursday released its final report. The 845-page report details the committee’s findings and recommendations, including the criminal referrals voted upon by the committee during their last public meeting. The report describes events leading up to, during, and in the aftermath of the [...]
The US Senate Wednesday passed the Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act, which updates the US’s current war crimes statutes to enable domestic prosecution of war criminals regardless of where the alleged war crimes occurred. The bill’s passage comes in the midst of Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenskyy’s visit to a joint session of the [...]
Hawaii’s congressional delegation Tuesday urged the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate the procedures and practices used by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Navy in the midst of a leak at the Navy’s Red Hill complex in Honolulu, Hawaii. In a letter, the delegation demanded to know whether a November 29 toxic [...]