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The Israel Defense Force’s (IDF) top military lawyer has quit after admitting she approved the leak of a video allegedly showing Israeli soldiers abusing a Palestinian prisoner at a military base.
In a 5,000-word document, the ruling Communist Party’s Central Committee stresses tech upgrades, security and domestic demand to guard against headwinds over the next five years.
Arizona law enforcement agencies are largely rejecting a fast-growing ICE program that lets local officers act as deportation agents — citing the experience of the state’s largest sheriff’s office, which was booted from the program in 2009 after a federal judge found deputies racially profiled and violated the const…
US President Donald Trump has filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, accusing the paper of engaging in a smear campaign against him and partisan favoritism toward Democrats.
The EU’s top court has struck down a European Commission decision that cleared Hungary to fund the expansion of a crucial Russia-led nuclear power project.
The former leader faces a decades-long jail sentence for conspiring to overturn the results after losing his 2022 re-election bid
In the city’s Legislative Council, 71 of 87 lawmakers voted against the measure despite a landmark court ruling.
The ruling is the latest blow for the once unstoppable Shinawatra family, just days after Thaksin’s daughter was removed as prime minister.
Paetongtarn Shinawatra has been removed as Thailand’s Prime Minister by the country’s Constitutional Court.
Elon Musk has said he is prepared to finance legal cases against “corrupt officials” in Britain after an inquiry found “gross negligence” in handling grooming gang crimes.
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The move to set up shelters and ban dog releases has drawn criticism from conservationists, who call it an ‘impractical’ move.
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Exit polls project that the ruling LPD-led coalition only secured 46 seats, short of the majority needed in the upper house elections
Brazilian President Luiz Ignácio Lula da Silva said his country would take retaliatory measures against the United States after Washington sent a letter confirming it will implement a 50 per cent tariff on Brazilian goods from August 1, 2025. US President Donald Trump claimed the measure would punish what he called …
Constitutional Court voted seven to two to suspend Shinawatra from duty
A Hartford woman never saw her car again after it was towed while she sat in housing court fighting an eviction.
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ProPublica has sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in federal court in New York, accusing the agency of withholding information about the safety and availability of generic drugs critical to millions of Americans.
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South Koreans headed to the polls on June 3, 2025, to elect a new president to lead the nation. Opposition Democratic Party nominee Lee Jae-myung was the front runner ahead of conservative ruling People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo in the final polls conducted the week before the election. A third contender, L…
Indian writer, lawyer and activist Banu Mushtaq won the 2025 International Booker Prize for her short story collection Heart Lamp, in London on May 20, 2025. The 77-year-old is the first author of literature in the Kannada language – which is spoken predominantly in the southwest Indian state of Karnataka – to recei…
The Philippines now faces the unique challenge of having a mayor who would have to govern in absentia from The Hague
Analysts say the People’s Action Party’s bigger 65.57 per cent vote reflects Singaporeans’ economic fears
Gary Fan, Kwok Ka-ki, Jeremy Tam and Claudia Mo served four years and two months behind bars after being convicted of subversion in a major national security trial
A Louisiana judge this week set aside the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of Jimmie “Chris” Duncan, whose 1998 conviction for killing his girlfriend’s 23-month-old daughter was based in part on bite mark evidence that experts now say is junk science.
A Wisconsin teenager accused of murdering two family members and plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump was inspired by Terrorgram, a white supremacist network that operated on the Telegram messaging and social media platform for half a decade, according to federal court records.
The former Philippine leader’s calls to kill alleged substance abusers is part of the evidence expected to be entered during his trial at The Hague
Constitutional Court formally removes president from office after Yoon was impeached for brief imposition of martial law in December 2024
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The head of the Unification Church in Japan has vowed to fight a court order revoking the organisation’s legal protections. Tomihiro Tanaka, the Japanese president of the group, now known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, said the court’s order was an attack on religious freedom. The March 25…
Opposition groups said they will file charges with the European Court of Human Rights
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Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte told his supporters not to “worry” and vowed to “continue to serve” his country in a video message shared on social media on March 12, 2025, before arriving in the Netherlands. Shortly after his arrival, the International Criminal Court (ICC) confirmed Duterte had surrende…
The former leader’s daughter, current Vice-President Sara Duterte, said she will fly to The Hague to assist in his legal defence
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Duterte was detained on orders of the International Criminal Court after arriving in Manila from Hong Kong, the Philippine government said
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Yoon was arrested in January on insurrection charges over his botched attempt to impose martial law
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Taiwan’s coastguard said it detained eight mainland Chinese crew members of a cargo ship suspected of damaging an undersea communication cable on February 25, 2025. The Togo-registered Hong Tai was intercepted and escorted to Taiwan after it dropped anchor in the area near the cable connecting Penghu Island – an arc…
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Jose-Antonio Maurellet spoke with the Post for his first interview with an English-language media outlet since he was elected new chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association on January 23, 2025. Maurellet, a Hong Kong-born Eurasian who can speak English, Cantonese and French, discussed uncertainties surrounding US Pre…
A Japanese court has convicted a man for throwing a home-made pipe bomb at Japan’s former prime minister Fumio Kishida. Ryuji Kimura was sentenced on February 19, 2025, to 10 years in prison. The 25-year-old was found guilty of attempted murder in the April 15, 2023, attack as Kishida was campaigning in a small fish…
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Hong Kong Bar Association chairman Victor Dawes has called on residents to have faith in the judiciary amid a complicated geopolitical environment, defending the city’s judges as “first class” and stressing national security cases are just one aspect of the system.
Austin Bell set out to catalogue and photograph every outdoor basketball court in Hong Kong, ultimately finding 2,549
The US Supreme Court on January 17, 2025, upheld a law requiring TikTok, the popular Chinese short-video app, to be banned in the United States unless it secures a non-Chinese buyer by January 19. The ruling delivered a significant blow to TikTok, which has 170 million American users, amid escalating concerns over n…
