INTERPOL announced an anti-financial crime operation targeting West African organized crime groups across five continents on Tuesday, leading to the arrests of 300 people. Police seized $3 million in illegal assets, including cryptocurrencies, and blocked 720 bank accounts. Operation Jackal III ran from early April to July 3, 2024 and pursued online financial fraud. There [...]
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![US-Mexico border illegal crossing arrests down 29 percent following Biden border restrictions](https://www.jurist.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/07/mexico_border_1563324287.jpg)
Arrests following illegal crossings of the US-Mexican border are the lowest of President Joseph Biden’s administration—down 29 percent in June alone—following a Presidential proclamation effectively barring would-be asylum seekers from requesting protection after they have illegally crossed the southern border. The Department of Homeland Security stated that “the Border Patrol’s 7-day average has decreased to [...]
The Trial Panel at the Kosovo tribunal in The Hague sentenced the former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) member Pjeter Shala to 18 years in prison on Tuesday for war crimes committed during the 1998-1999 Kosovo War. The court found Shala guilty of arbitrary detention, cruel treatment, torture and murder. The court stated that Shala had [...]
![Greece issues order restricting outdoor work amid extreme heatwave and rampant wildfires in southern Europe](https://www.jurist.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/01/Greece_1706099391.jpg)
The Greek Ministry of Labor and Social Security announced Monday that they would be restricting outdoor work, ordering businesses to refrain from allowing their employees to perform heavy outdoor labor during the afternoon as the extreme heatwave plaguing southern Europe enters its second week. With temperatures expected to hit 42 degrees Celsius on Wednesday and [...]
![US Senator Bob Menendez found guilty of bribery offenses](https://www.jurist.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/09/Senator_Menendez_Speaks_at_the_Chiefs_of_Mission_Conference_View_from_the_Hill_U.S._Foreign_Policy_Session_52165615421.jpg)
US Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was found guilty of bribery offenses and conspiracy to act as a foreign agent Tuesday after being charged for receiving more than $500,000 in cash, $100,000 worth of gold bars, and a Mercedes luxury car from three businessmen. The senator’s trial lasted for a month, and jury deliberations took more [...]
![India Supreme Court directs central government to answer state petition to prosecute soldiers](https://www.jurist.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/02/Supreme_Court_of_India_01.jpeg)
A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud issued a six-week notice to the Union Government and the Ministry of Defence on Monday to respond to a writ petition filed by the State of Nagaland seeking approval to prosecute 30 Indian Army personnel implicated in the deaths of [...]
![US court dismisses appeal challenging military and financial aid for Israel](https://www.jurist.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/02/Flickr_-_Israel_Defense_Forces_-_IDF_Artillery_Display.jpg)
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 [...]
![Ireland police arrest anti-immigration protesters after violent clash](https://www.jurist.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-16-135050.png)
Irish police arrested 19 people during an anti-immigration protest in Dublin on Monday. 15 of the protesters, 13 men and two women, later appeared at the Criminal Courts of Justice for a special sitting and were charged with public order offences under Section 6 and Section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 1994. [...]
![Albania justice ministry allows jailed politician temporary release to take oath at European Parliament in France](https://www.jurist.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2021/01/european-parliament-1265254.jpg)
Albania’s Ministry of Justice allowed Monday the temporary release of jailed politician Fredi Beleri to travel to Strasbourg, France and take oath as a member of the European Parliament after he won a seat in the European elections held in June. Local media reported that Albania’s Ministry of Justice and General Directorate of Prisons granted [...]
![California governor signs law prohibiting schools from informing parents about students changing pronouns](https://www.jurist.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/07/school_1721143813.jpg)
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law Monday prohibiting schools from informing parents when students change their pronouns in school. The Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth (SAFETY) Act also imposes responsibilities on the State Department of Education to develop resources to “increase support for LGBTQ pupils.” According to the California legislature’s LGBTQ [...]