The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said on Saturday that they have turned away two boats carrying nearly 300 Myanmar immigrants, who the authority believed to be Muslim Rohingya refugees. MMEA director-general Rear Admiral Datuk Mohd Rosli Abdullah said the operation followed an interception on Friday of two boats attempting to illegally enter Pantai Teluk [...]

The Criminal Division of the Seoul Western District Court on Sunday rejected former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s objection to the execution of the arrest warrant and the search warrant of the presidential resident, according to local media outlet Yonhap. Yoon’s lawyers filed the objection on Thursday, calling the warrants “illegal” and citing Article 417 of [...]

South Korea’s Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) on Saturday sent an official document to Acting President Choi Sang-mok  requesting him to order the Presidential Security Service to comply with execution of the arrest warrant for President Yoon Seok-yeol, according to the Korean Broadcasting System. After President Yoon failed to appear for the CIO’s [...]

The TikTok creators challenging the law that would ban TikTok in the US due to national security concerns filed a reply brief on Friday, just hours after the US government submitted classified materials to the US Supreme Court. The group urged the Court to ignore the government’s arguments saying, “the DC Circuit explicitly declined to [...]

New York judge Juan Merchan on Friday ordered Donald Trump to appear for sentencing on January 10 for his hush-money conviction, finding that a president-elect does not enjoy presidential immunity. Trump’s motion to dismiss the indictment is based on the presidential immunity doctrine, the Presidential Transition Act, and the Supremacy Clause, requiring the government to [...]

Guatemala and El Salvador sent soldiers to Haiti to join the Multinational Security Support (MSS) on Friday, according to the announcement of the Haitian National Police. This group, consisting of 75 Guatemalan soldiers and eight Salvadoran soldiers, is joining as part of the MSS mission to assist in the fight against gang-related violence. A second [...]

The military government of Myanmar released 5,864 prisoners on Saturday. The mass amnesty was to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the country’s independence from British colonial rule. The terms of this amnesty stipulate that any released prisoners who re-offend will be required to serve the remainder of their original sentences and face new penalties. This [...]

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Saturday released draft rules in furtherance of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, sparking significant debate regarding the rules’ implications on data privacy rights. The Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, which has been made available for public consultation until February 18, 2025, outlines [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday published its finding that Oklahoma discriminates against people with behavioral health disabilities in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The DOJ found that Oklahoma unnecessarily puts individuals with behavioral health disabilities in institutional facilities for long periods, isolating those individuals from the general community. These [...]

The FBI announced at a press conference on Thursday that the suspect behind the deadly truck attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans is believed to be a “lone-wolf” terrorist, acting alone without any known accomplices. FBI deputy assistant director Christopher Raia from the Counterterrorism Division provided updates on the devastating truck attack on Bourbon [...]