The U.S. Department of Justice has concluded that California’s prison system failed, in a systematic and sustained manner, to protect incarcerated women from sexual abuse and harassment by correctional staff — and that the mechanisms designed to address such abuse…
A former police inspector in England has been sentenced to ten years in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing men he encountered in the course of his duties, with one survivor’s decision to come forward proving instrumental in securing…
For three decades, Riad Salameh presided over Lebanon’s Banque du Liban with near-untouchable authority. Appointed central bank governor in 1993, he was long celebrated in international financial circles as a steward of monetary stability — even as Lebanon’s economy accumulated…
Record Seizure in Central London The Metropolitan Police seized a £3.7 million Ferrari Monza SP2 — one of only 499 ever produced — along with 89 other vehicles during a three-day enforcement operation targeting uninsured, anti-social, and dangerous driving across…
Overview A 14-year-old student killed at least eight people and wounded more than thirty others on Friday morning after opening fire at the Nonthaburi branch of Debsirin School on the outskirts of Bangkok. The attack, which unfolded shortly after 10am…
Two survivors of conversion practices in England have described lasting psychological harm inflicted by religious groups that subjected them to prayer rituals, aversion techniques and public shaming in attempts to alter their sexual orientation — as the UK government advances…
The killing of Chris Kaba in September 2022 will now face no further formal scrutiny of the officer responsible. That is the operative consequence of a decision announced by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), confirming it will not…
A Vessel Under Scrutiny On the morning of 2 August, the Italian naval frigate Thaon di Revel intercepted a tanker in international waters west of Pantelleria, the small Italian island that sits between Sicily and Tunisia, in what represents one…
A minister’s resignation rarely resolves the crisis that caused it. When Dharmendra Pradhan stepped down as India’s education minister last month following sustained street protests by Gen-Z demonstrators over repeated entrance examination paper leaks, Prime Minister Narendra Modi moved quickly…
A Crisis Reshaped by External Force Seven months ago, the trajectory of Venezuela’s political crisis shifted in a manner that few analysts had anticipated. What had long been a domestic confrontation between the government of President Nicolás Maduro and a…