Amnesty International called on Wednesday for an international investigation into Israeli military attacks on healthcare facilities during the Lebanon war, and labeled them as war crimes. Amnesty International’s own investigation focused on four Israeli attacks in Beirut between October 3 and 9, 2024, which killed 19 healthcare workers, wounded 11 more, and destroyed multiple ambulances [...]

Drug cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero pleaded not guilty in a Brooklyn court on Friday to charges related to his involvement in the 40-year-old killing of a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent. Caro Quintero was brought to federal court along with 28 other accused cartel members. He is facing charges for crimes committed as the [...]

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum threatened Monday to take Google to court if its map feature continues to show US-based users the label “Gulf of America” instead of “Gulf of Mexico.” President Donald Trump’s first day in office concluded with an executive order renaming the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America.” Trump decreed on [...]

Amnesty International condemned the Russian government on Sunday for its failure to answer questions about opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s death on the first anniversary of the anti-corruption activist’s demise. On February 16, 2024, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) reported that Nalvany lost consciousness in the yard of the penal colony where authorities had transferred [...]

INTERPOL reported on Tuesday that “Operation Thunder” 2024 against wildlife and forestry trafficking, coordinated jointly with the World Customs Organization (WCO), resulted in the seizure of nearly 20,000 live animals and the arrest of 365 suspects. In 2024, Operation Thunder united law enforcement agencies from 138 countries and regions, making it the largest-ever global operation [...]

The European Commission and the European Board for Digital Services welcomed on Monday the integration of the new “Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online” into the Digital Services Act (DSA) to guarantee the safety of users. The revised code aims to strengthen the fight against harmful content online according to EU law [...]

Peru declared a state of emergency on Monday, following the detonation of explosives attacking the Public Ministry of Trujillo. Monday’s incident marks the second attack in Trujillo this year. In the declaration by President Dina Boluarte, the Presidency of Peru stated that “the Armed Forces and the police will take control of the city due [...]

Two senior Iranian judges were killed on Saturday in a shooting attack carried out by an unidentified armed man at the Supreme Court in Tehran. Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh were assassinated by a gunman who immediately afterward committed suicide while attempting to flee. While attacks against judges are rare, Iran has witnessed a significant [...]

Peru’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs  announced on Tuesday that the government condemns what it called “acts of repression” perpetrated by Nicolás Maduro following allegations made by the “President-elect of Venezuela” Edmundo González. The Ministry’s statement concluded, “By demanding the immediate cessation of these practices that go against life and human dignity, the Government of Peru [...]

A motion of censure was presented against the Peruvian congress’s president Eduardo Salhuana on Monday after the Political group Bancada Honor y Democracia accused him of failing to act over alleged prostitution rings in parliament by leaving Peru during the case. In a press conference, Jose Cueto, congressman from Bancada Honor y Democracia, stated that [...]