A U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems, Britain’s largest defence contractor, has agreed to pay a $36 million penalty after the U.S. State Department found it had violated federal arms export laws on at least 104 separate occasions — including an…
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…
Overview A Syrian criminal court has handed down death sentences to ousted president Bashar al-Assad and seven former senior officials, convicting them in absentia of murder, torture, arbitrary detention, and crimes against humanity committed during Syria’s nearly fourteen-year civil war.…
Greek authorities have arrested members of an Italian smuggling ring on the Aegean island of Skopelos, seizing red coral harvested illegally from the seabed and valued at approximately €800,000. The cargo was destined for Italy. Investigators from Greece’s General Directorate…
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…
Three of world football’s six continental confederations have issued a coordinated statement accusing FIFA president Gianni Infantino of a fundamental failure of integrity, marking a significant escalation in an institutional crisis that has been building for weeks. UEFA, the Asian…
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…
A Political Murder Revisited Ecuadorean prosecutors have formally charged seven individuals — among them a former interior minister — in connection with the August 2023 assassination of Fernando Villavicencio, a presidential candidate and anti-corruption legislator shot dead at a campaign…
Andy Burnham, recently elevated to Prime Minister, made a series of statements earlier this year that have attracted renewed scrutiny: while serving as Mayor of Greater Manchester, he proposed that local authorities should, under certain conditions, compel private landlords to…
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…