Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced Sunday the arrest of 33 suspects alleged to be connected to the Islamic State (IS) on charges of “preparing and seeking action before the upcoming local elections,” of having provided “personnel to conflict zone” and “financial aid to the organization within the scope of financing terrorism,” ahead of the [...]

The Scottish government launched a public inquiry into Emma Caldwell’s murder in 2005, a case that brought significant attention to the failures of police investigations. Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs Angela Constance announced in a statement to the parliament that an “independent, judge-led, statutory Public Inquiry” will take place into the investigation [...]

Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry François-Philippe Champagne and Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge announced in a statement Friday additional measures aimed at strengthening guidelines on foreign investments in the interactive digital media sector. The two ministers hope to clarify and improve the application of the Investment Canada Act, which governs foreign investments. [...]

The National Audit Office (NAO), in a report published Friday, revealed the UK government will pay at least £370 million to Rwanda under their obligations in the Migration and Economic Development Partnership (MEDP). As the UK’s independent public spending watchdog, the NAO audits and reports the government’s financial accounts in order to help improve public [...]

The Canadian government announced Friday it would file an appeal of a Federal Court judgement that found it acted illegally when responding to Freedom Convoy protests in 2022. That judgement held that the government’s invocation of the federal Emergencies Act in response to the protests exceeded its authority and violated some protesters’ constitutional rights. Canada’s [...]

The Court of First Instance of Tunis sentenced prominent opposition figure Jawher Ben Mbarek to six months in prison, his sister and lawyer Dalila Ben Mbarek Masddek announced in a live video on Facebook on Saturday. The case was brought by the Independent Higher Authority for Elections (ISIE) against Ben Mbarek regarding his criticism of [...]

Cybersecurity and digital governance organization NetBlocks reported a new national-scale disruption to X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday in Pakistan, as protests erupted following allegations of election fraud. Netblocks first published evidence of a disruption to the platform on February 10, two days after the parliamentary vote, which was marked by violent protests and controversies. The [...]

Police in Russia detained more than 400 people across the country at rallies honoring late opposition leader Alexei Navalny over the weekend, according to a list of detainees published by Russian human rights group OVD-Info on Saturday and reporting from Radio Free Europe on Sunday. Federal authorities announced earlier this week that Navalny died in [...]

The Malaysian federal court declared several Kelantan state Sharia laws to be unconstitutional in a judgement on Friday. The decision followed a petition deposited by lawyer Nik Elin Zurina Nik Abdul Rashid and her daughter, Tengku Yasmin Natasha Tengku Abdul Rahman, to challenge the constitutionality of provisions of the Kelantan Syariah Criminal Code (I) Enactment [...]

UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General Bintou Keita in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) condemned a series of attacks targeting UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) personnel in a statement on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday. Keita said that “Weakening MONUSCO means strengthening the negative forces that it [...]