Theme: Justice

Venezuela’s National Assembly approved on Tuesday, in a first reading, the bill for a partial reform of the Constitutional Law against Hatred, at the request of the executive. The reform replaces prison sentences with fines and community work and sets out clear administrative procedures for applying the law; the text drops the word “hatred” and is to be renamed the Law for Democratic Coexistence, Peace and Coexistence. Opposition lawmaker Amelia Belisario said the law “served to persecute dissent.” The non-governmental organization Espacio Público warned that the reform keeps mechanisms that can restrict freedom of expression, by leaving sanctioning procedures in the hands of the ministry with jurisdiction over justice.

A Hong Kong court sentenced activist Joshua Wong to 10 years in prison on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to “foreign collusion,” his second conviction under a national security law. The sentence stems from the global campaign to instigate sanctions against mainland China and Hong Kong after the 2019 protests. Wong was already serving a sentence for subversion in the primary election case and was charged alongside his former party colleague Nathan Law and other activists. Foreign consuls attended the hearing, with a heavy police presence and a large crowd of media outside the court.

In the enlargement report published on November 4, 2026, the European Commission downgraded its assessment of Ukraine’s anti-corruption reforms from “some progress” to “limited progress.” The document records that anti-corruption bodies increased the number of investigations, prosecutions and convictions in high-level corruption cases, while some priority legislative reforms remain outstanding. The final version of Brussels’ communication removed a reference, present in the draft, to reforms slowing down, according to RFE/RL’s reporting.

High Court Judge William Tam has set 9:30 a.m. this Thursday for the sentencing of Joshua Wong for foreign collusion, in a hearing lasting about 30 minutes. Wong pleaded guilty in September and faces a prison term ranging from three years to life imprisonment on the charge of conspiring with external forces to endanger national security. The 30-year-old activist is already serving a four-year, eight-month prison term. Before the new charge, lawyer Derek Chan told the court Wong had been due for release in January 2027.

The NABU has dismantled a criminal network running fraudulent call centers and drug sales with the support of senior SBU, police and Prosecutor General's Office officials, according to TASS, citing Ukrainska Pravda — dozens of raids were carried out on Wednesday in Operation Carthage. Vladimir Tsenov, first deputy chief of the national police's strategic investigations department, known by the codename “Price”, was detained. SBU chief Oleksandr Poklad dismissed two senior officials targeted by the investigation, according to Le Monde.

Serbian authorities detained nine active police officers and one former officer for allegedly using excessive force against detainees during last year’s anti-corruption protests in Belgrade, according to Reuters, in a text republished by The Straits Times. The Interior Ministry said the suspects, from an elite unit, tortured and intimidated people detained in the garage of a government compound in downtown Belgrade on August 14-15, 2025. According to the statement, by using force and threats they inflicted great pain and severe suffering on a larger number of people to obtain information from them and to intimidate and unlawfully punish them. These were the first major arrests in connection with violence against the protesters who took to the streets over the past two years, and the ministry released only the detainees’ initials. The protests swept the country, a candidate for European Union (EU) membership, in 2025 and 2026, after 16 people died when a concrete canopy collapsed at a renovated railway station in Novi Sad on November 1, 2024.

According to Sputnik, Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) said that officials from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the police and the Prosecutor General's Office were involved in providing protection to fraudulent call centers, and that during searches authorized by the High Anti-Corruption Court an SBU official threatened the agents with a weapon and obstructed the work. Ukraine's National Police said it had suspended the officers targeted by the searches pending an internal investigation. According to Le Monde, SBU chief Oleksandr Poklad dismissed two senior officials targeted by the investigation, which involves members of the secret services, the Prosecutor General's Office and the police.

Armenia's National Security Service detained Samvel Karapetyan, leader of the opposition Strong Armenia bloc, after searches at his homes, according to TASS. Armenia's Investigative Committee confirmed searches at 65 addresses, including properties linked to his nephew Narek Karapetyan, head of the bloc's parliamentary group. The detention is part of a criminal investigation into abuse of authority at his businesses that allegedly caused losses of around $179 million to Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA), according to the committee.

The Hamburg Higher Regional Court has scheduled 19 more hearings between February and June 2027, extending until at least mid-2027 the trial over the sabotage of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines, court press spokeswoman Judge Mareike Franzen said. Sergey Kuznetsov, a former special operations officer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is standing trial, charged with a war crime, carrying out explosions, destroying structures and disrupting the operations of public utilities. He was detained in Italy in August 2025 and extradited to Germany.

Former US contractor Abraham Teklu Lemma admitted sharing dozens of classified documents and photographs with Ethiopian officials over more than two years, according to the US Department of Justice. He worked as a contractor at the State Department, the Justice Department and the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency responsible for US intelligence satellites. The material included satellite imagery and details of military activities, passed on through encrypted messages, and the FBI said Ethiopian officials used the intelligence in military operations. In one message to an Ethiopian official in December 2021, Lemma wrote that “we have to finish these people once and for all,” because otherwise there would never be peace in Ethiopia, and later that day he urged the official to send drones. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit national defense information to a foreign government, faces sentencing on April 14, 2027, and could get up to 22 years in prison.

The Seoul High Court on Wednesday upheld the sentence invalidating former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s 2022 election victory and exposing the People Power Party to returning 39.7 billion won ($27 million) in campaign expenses: 18 months in prison, suspended for three years, for false campaign statements — denying he introduced a lawyer to the former Yongsan tax chief and saying he never met shaman Jeon Seong-bae with his wife, Kim Keon Hee — with the invalidation taking effect if the Supreme Court upholds the ruling.

The United Kingdom Supreme Court began hearing the appeal on Wednesday from Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori against the government’s designation of the group as a terrorist organization. The hearing is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday. Permission to appeal was granted only on the argument that the proscription is compatible with Articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR); the argument on the interpretation and application of the Home Secretary’s policy was refused. The proscription was announced to Parliament on June 23, 2025, and came into effect on July 5, 2025, under the Terrorism Act 2000. More than 300 supporters of the group were arrested by London police on Saturday for displaying placards bearing the now-prohibited slogan. The defense argues that only three of the 385 actions undertaken by the group over five years were assessed as meeting the definition of terrorism.

Party presidents and opposition lawmakers delivered a letter to President José Antonio Kast at the La Moneda palace demanding the removal of Justice Minister Fernando Rabat. The case involves the reduction of sentences for 56 people convicted of sexual abuse against minors, which has already cost the ministry’s undersecretary, Luis Silva, his post. In a special session of the Chamber of Deputies, Rabat acknowledged “a gap in the procedure, by not listening to the victims,” and the opposition announced a constitutional accusation against him.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sent target letters to attorney Marc Elias and others in the case of the namesake Alaska Senate candidacy. The department has already issued more than 100 grand jury subpoenas and preservation letters, and investigators have begun interviewing witnesses. The probe examines whether the ballot presence of retired teacher Dan J. Sullivan, namesake of Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan, was arranged to confuse voters and siphon votes from the incumbent. As of Tuesday evening, the Justice Department had not appealed the ruling by federal judge Sharon L. Gleason, who dismissed without a hearing the bid to halt certification of a potential win by Democrat Mary Peltola. Elias said Trump’s Justice Department was targeting him on Election Day and that he would not be intimidated by a “sham investigation.”

The crisis at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal came to a head on Friday, when Prime Minister Donald Tusk moved to remake the court, whose president was appointed by the previous government, the far-right Law and Justice (PiS) party. The tribunal’s president, Bogdan Święczkowski, was suspended after refusing to allow a new member nominated by Tusk and approved by Parliament to take his seat. President Karol Nawrocki described the removal as “a forcible takeover of a constitutional body,” abandoned a trip to Africa and headed straight back to the tribunal, in Warsaw. On Tuesday, the eight judges backed by Tusk’s coalition planned to meet to approve the tribunal’s budget and consider disciplinary proceedings against Święczkowski and his deputy, Bartłomiej Sochański. The parliamentary election is due next year, with the constitutional order and the direction of European integration at the center of the dispute.

Israel’s attorney general, Gali Baharav-Miara, asked the Shin Bet to report on the progress of its investigation into claims of electoral fraud by parties of Palestinian citizens of Israel and said no evidence had been submitted so far, according to Middle East Eye. In a statement sent to the media by her spokesperson, she said that if the Shin Bet or any other authority holds evidence that would justify opening an investigation, it is invited to present it.

13 people and three companies are standing trial at the Paris criminal court for complicity in tax fraud and money laundering by an organized gang, for having allowed more than a hundred wealthy French taxpayers to escape at least €54 million in taxes between 2007 and 2018. Other proceedings over the scheme are under way in Belgium and Switzerland. The newspaper L’Humanité points to €200 million that the accused are alleged to have made disappear from the tax authority’s radar, through offshore companies and bank accounts in several countries.

Democrats are preparing, should they win one chamber of Congress, an investigative agenda covering the Trump family’s business dealings, son-in-law Jared Kushner, crypto and the Epstein files. If they win one or both chambers, they will have broad powers to launch probes and hold hearings into the conduct of administration officials. Trump family business dealings and broader allegations of corporate corruption will be a top priority for California Representative Robert Garcia, who is set to lead the House Oversight Committee if Democrats win the chamber. Democrats have already requested information on Kushner’s business dealings, citing his dual roles as an informal foreign policy adviser to the president and the head of a private equity firm that does business with foreign governments, and are pushing for investigations into the Trump family’s investments in crypto. Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein will also be a focus, with an investigation into whether the Justice Department violated the Epstein Files Transparency Act by withholding or improperly redacting documents. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, likely to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that “more than 90 percent of voters think that government has been corrupted” and that investigative work must not distract from immediate cost problems American families feel.

Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and the Office of the Prosecutor General charged Yuliya Mendel in absentia, Zelensky’s former spokesperson, with high treason under martial law and with justifying Russia’s actions against Ukraine. According to the SBU, investigators argue that Mendel used public statements and social media posts to discredit Ukraine on the international stage. She is currently outside the country, and the agency said comprehensive measures are being taken to bring her to justice.

Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal announced on October 30 the one-month suspension of its president, Bogdan Święczkowski, and its vice president, Bartłomiej Sochański, in an order signed by Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska. President Karol Nawrocki turned his Senegal-bound plane back to Warsaw and told the judges present that they “are not Constitutional Tribunal judges”. Święczkowski had been suspended after refusing to let a new member nominated by Donald Tusk and approved by parliament take his seat, an episode CNN describes as a chapter in the clash between the pro-European prime minister and the pro-Trump president. The prime minister said on October 31 that reform had been “blocked by the president and PiS” and that “on certain matters there can be no compromise”.

Serbia is going through a wave of arrests and resignations after the Student List won the parliamentary elections on October 25 and Aleksandar Vučić left power for the first time in over a decade. The Student List won 140 of the 250 seats in parliament but, without a clear leadership structure, may take some time to form a government. On November 1, Marko Kricak, head of the Criminal Police Directorate, and Bosko Sekulovic, a police commander tasked with fighting organized crime, were arrested on charges of abusing their positions as part of an investigation into a complex murder case in May. On November 2, Davor Macura, owner of Alta Bank, was arrested in Belgrade after the bank had its license revoked by the National Bank of Serbia on October 30. Manja Grcic, director of the public broadcaster RTS, dismissed the head of the news department on October 28 and resigned the same day under pressure from employees and representatives of the student protest movement. Vučić told TV Pink he is not afraid of a possible arrest because there will be no evidence against him.

Congolese opposition figure Prince Epenge, arrested on October 25, was transferred on October 31 to Makala central prison, in Kinshasa, after a court rejected his request for provisional release the day before. President of the ADD Congo party, spokesperson for the Lamuka coalition and a member of the C64 platform, Epenge is accused of “spreading false rumors”, tied to his denunciation of the killing of a party activist at the September 15 opposition march in Kinshasa. He was detained at N’djili International Airport as he was about to fly to Rome, where the opposition gathered in C64 was to hold a meeting.

Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) opened criminal proceedings over the events of November 2, 2026 in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, in the Kyiv region, under Part 5 of Article 426-1 of the Ukrainian Criminal Code, which covers exceeding authority or official powers by a military official. The events unfolded near a private house used to temporarily accommodate National Guard service members who had returned after leaving their unit without authorization. According to the SBI, investigators will establish the circumstances and conditions of the service members’ stay in the house and verify reports of possible coercion against them. The conflict near the house escalated into clashes, during which shots were fired and official police vehicles were damaged. National Guard Commander Oleksandr Pivnenko confirmed that National Guard service members were in the house after leaving their unit without authorization and that four of them required medical attention and were taken to a hospital. The National Guard said it will no longer use the building and that the people who had been staying there have already left.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk pledged on Saturday to ensure the country’s Constitutional Tribunal operate in accordance with the law, after President Karol Nawrocki accused the government of forcibly taking control of the court, in an escalating political dispute over the judiciary, according to CGTN.

Prosecutors intend to charge Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Tzachi Braverman, over his role in the 2024 leak of classified documents to the German newspaper Bild, after he allegedly tipped off the affair’s chief suspect, Eli Feldstein, about the investigation — according to the Times of Israel, citing Hebrew media.

The US Supreme Court declined to stop California from counting the votes, rejecting a request from the Justice Department. The department had ordered the state to segregate and not count about 20,000 ballots from people it claims are non-citizens. District Judge David Carter had already rejected the request in an October 28 ruling.

The UK is open to a formal apology for Britain’s role in the slave trade but rejects reparations. In a Guardian article ahead of a Commonwealth leaders’ summit where the subject is expected to dominate, Andy Burnham went further than any previous prime minister toward offering a formal apology for Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade, but rejected demands from Caribbean countries and campaigners for financial reparations, maintaining the position of successive governments that British people today cannot be held liable for the past.

Cristina Kirchner did not rule out running for Argentina’s presidency in 2027 against Javier Milei, provided she can overturn the lifetime ban on holding public office handed down in the Vialidad case. She summed up the condition: “When I recover my political rights, why not?”. The six-year prison sentence and the lifetime ban have already been upheld by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.

A federal judge dismissed a criminal complaint on Monday against two former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials accused of falsely downplaying their knowledge of a laptop the Justice Department says belonged to Hunter Biden. “There is no denying this investigation was rushed,” Judge Faruqui said during a roughly hourlong hearing, later adding that it “cannot be described as anything other than weaponization” of the Justice Department.

Poland's president, Karol Nawrocki, has held crisis talks with political leaders as a dispute over the independence of the country's top constitutional court deepens. Representatives of nationalist, far-right and some governing coalition parties attended the talks at the presidential palace on Saturday, while Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centrist Civic Coalition stayed away. Tusk has deployed riot police to get his judges seated at the court.

The Argentine newspaper Clarín reported that US agents took control of part of Porto Iguaçu airport to help Flávio Bolsonaro flee Brazil, according to Folha de S.Paulo, which cites Friday’s (30) edition. Estadão also attributes to Clarín the account that Flávio fled to the United States after an electoral defeat, in an operation that involved American help and the use of private jets.

A federal judge in the United States on Sunday dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska's Senate race if Republican Dan Sullivan loses, according to the AP. The lawsuit alleged there could be voter confusion over the presence of two candidates named Dan Sullivan on the November ballot, the Guardian reported.

The political crisis between the centrist government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and the opposition, which has smoldered since his return to power in 2023, moved up a notch on Friday, October 30, 2026, with the police intervention at the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw, according to Le Monde. Anti-riot police were deployed in large numbers to block access to the tribunal, and the justice minister launched a procedure to lift the immunity of its president. On Saturday, the European Commission urged the head of state to confirm the appointment of the new judges.

The head of Israel's Central Elections Committee said on Sunday, November 1, 2026, that an ongoing investigation into alleged foreign funding in the recent vote would not call the result into question, noting that, so far, “suspicions remain suspicions.” In a video message, he assured Israelis that “your choice at the ballot box will be respected” and that the elections “were conducted properly.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party have accused Arab groupings of having “stolen” the vote, in which they notched unprecedented gains. The vote on Tuesday, October 27, did not deliver an outright parliamentary majority to any bloc: Netanyahu and his allies won 53 seats and Eisenkot's camp secured 48, both well short of the 61 needed. The Beersheba Magistrate's Court ordered the unconditional release of one suspect and rejected the police's request to extend by eight days the detention of the two others.

The European Commission said it is for the Polish authorities to ensure that the Constitutional Tribunal can function in accordance with the Polish constitution and with the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The Commission said the appointment of eight new members of the Constitutional Tribunal lies within the constitutional power of the Sejm, Poland’s parliament, and cited interim measures from the European Court of Human Rights dated May 5, 2026. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said restoring calm could not mean accepting lawlessness or violence, and vowed to restore conditions for independent justice and the rule of law.

London’s Metropolitan Police said on Sunday that 325 people were arrested on Saturday at the protest outside the US embassy, 320 of them for “expressing support for a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act.” The demonstration preceded a two-day Supreme Court hearing starting Wednesday on the UK government’s July 2025 decision to outlaw Palestine Action under anti-terrorism legislation, according to France 24.

The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, is investigating suspicions that a current Joint List member of Knesset received thousands of shekels from Qatar, money that was then reportedly used by the party during the election campaign, according to the Jerusalem Post. At this stage, investigators say they have no evidence of what the money was actually used for and that it is unclear what evidence suggests the funds originated from Qatar. Qatar’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari wrote on X: “We categorically deny allegations that Qatar has interfered in Israeli elections or funded any activities intended to influence their outcome.”

A Lebanese military court charged 13 people linked to Hezbollah with trafficking explosives, amid growing pressure on the Iran-backed group to disarm, according to Al Jazeera. The seized vehicle was carrying 780 kg (1,720 pounds) of explosives, including 250 kg (550 pounds) of TNT and 250 kg (550 pounds) of C-4, according to judicial officials. Hezbollah acknowledged owning the explosives and said they were intended for use against Israel, which continues to occupy large parts of southern Lebanon.

Judge Darrin Gayles dismissed Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal with prejudice on Saturday, meaning the president cannot file an amended version of the suit, according to The Hindu. The suit was about a July 2025 story detailing Trump’s alleged 2003 letter to Epstein, which apparently featured a drawing of a naked woman.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki met on Saturday at the presidential palace with representatives of nationalist, far-right and some governing coalition parties, amid the standoff over the Constitutional Tribunal; Prime Minister Donald Tusk's centrist Civic Coalition stayed away, according to Al Jazeera. In a Saturday evening speech, Tusk accused conservative nationalist opposition leaders of wanting to “destroy democracy and rule of law.” In a televised address, he said he was certain the Constitutional Tribunal “will function as it should,” independently of him and in line with the constitution, according to Reuters.

An investigation by a Brazilian security agency, revealed by CNN Brasil on Friday, found that a former Mossad agent who became a naturalized US citizen helped Flavio Bolsonaro leave the country in violation of a judicial order, according to the Jerusalem Post, which cites the report. According to the newspaper, the former agent arrived in Brazil on October 19 and accompanied the senator from Brasilia to the border, crossing the Tancredo Neves Bridge between Foz do Iguaçu and Puerto Iguazú in a van; the family then boarded a Gulfstream G400 jet operated by the Argentine airline Baires Fly, which refueled in Guayaquil and landed on Wednesday morning at Opa-locka Executive Airport near Miami. The State Department had said Flavio and his family would be granted US visas before his arrival in Miami. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes had ordered the senator’s passports seized and barred him from leaving the country, and the Federal Police said it found no official record of his departure at border checkpoints. Brazil’s Foreign Ministry summoned Argentina’s representative to demand clarifications about possible involvement by Javier Milei’s government, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Riot police were deployed outside Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal as the dispute over who should serve on the court escalated into a confrontation between Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government and the nationalist opposition, according to Al Jazeera. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the building in Warsaw on Friday night after judges elected by the current parliamentary majority announced the suspension of the tribunal’s president, Bogdan Swieczkowski, and his deputy, Bartlomiej Sochanski. Police secured the Constitutional Tribunal as protests erupted over the court chief’s suspension, according to AP News.

Chile’s vice-minister of justice resigned after the disclosure of sentence reductions granted to people convicted of abuse against minors, according to Opera Mundi. Between March 11 and September 13 this year, the justice ministry authorized 56 sentence reductions for people convicted of sexual crimes against minors: 29 for rape and 27 for sexual abuse, according to BioBioChile.

London police arrested 48 people on Saturday at a protest by Palestine Action supporters outside the US Embassy, days before a two-day Supreme Court hearing on the ban on the group, according to Middle East Eye. “The majority of arrests have been for expressing support for a proscribed organisation,” the force said. Nearly 4,000 people have been arrested for allegedly showing support for Palestine Action since the British government proscribed it under anti-terrorism laws in July 2025.

Riot police have been deployed at Poland’s Constitutional Court amid an escalating standoff between the government and the court’s top judges, the BBC reported. On Friday, police surrounded the tribunal and detained three people after some protesters breached the fence and others threw objects at officers, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The court’s website published the suspension of its president, Bogdan Święczkowski, at around 6 p.m. local time and went down soon after, and AP said it could not independently verify the official reasons for the move. President Karol Nawrocki, who was flying to Senegal, said he turned his flight back: “At a moment like this, the President must be in Poland. I am cutting short my flight to Senegal. I am returning,” he wrote on X. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that “restoring the rule of law is our obligation.”

Rwanda has released at least 533 people convicted of crimes during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi after they completed their prison sentences, Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said on Friday. National Unity and Civic Engagement Minister Jean Damascene Bizimana said the group underwent rehabilitation training before release to prepare them for reintegration into society. More than 100,000 people were convicted of crimes committed during the 1994 genocide, according to TRT World.

A Lebanese military court has charged 13 people it says are linked to Hezbollah with trafficking in explosives. The individuals were charged with offenses including possessing weapons, undermining state security and forming illegal associations, Lebanese state media reported. The vehicle seized at the Dahr al-Baydar checkpoint had been carrying 780kg (1,720 pounds) of explosives, including 250kg (550 pounds) of TNT and 250kg (550 pounds) of C-4 plastic explosives, according to judicial officials. Hezbollah later acknowledged that the explosives belonged to the group and said they were intended for use against Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, according to Arab News.

A federal judge barred the Trump administration on Friday night from threatening or intimidating election officials ahead of next week's midterm elections, NBC News reported. The eight-page order by US District Judge Trina Thompson, based in California, prohibits actions that threaten, intimidate or coerce state or local election officials and workers into halting the processing of ballots from registered voters the administration alleges are ineligible, and runs through November 16.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki convened emergency consultations with representatives of parliamentary groups over the conflict surrounding the Constitutional Court, according to the TASS news agency. The head of the presidential office read out a statement in which Nawrocki justified the move by a threat to the country’s internal security and said the consultations aim to stabilize the political situation and restore constitutional order.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki entered the building of the Constitutional Tribunal early on Saturday, accompanied by Zbigniew Kapinski, according to Nawrocki’s chief of staff, Pawel Szefernaker. Police said they had arrested three people who tried to enter the court complex.

Poland's president, Karol Nawrocki, cut short a trip to Senegal and returned to Warsaw after the Constitutional Tribunal said on its website that the tribunal's president had been suspended, and joined protesters facing off with police outside the court. The tribunal said its longest-serving judge, Anna Korwin-Piotrowska, suspended the tribunal's president, Bogdan Swieczkowski, and assumed charge of the court, according to the Hindustan Times.

Chinese nationals Liren Lai, 40, and Yuance Chen, 39, were sentenced on Friday to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release for acting as agents of China in the United States (US), according to the US Department of Justice. According to the department’s release, the two operated under the direction and control of China’s Ministry of State Security in clandestine intelligence activities that included secret cash “dead-drop” payments in exchange for information related to US national security, gathering information about US military personnel and installations, and assisting efforts to recruit inside the US military. The two admitted trying to recruit US service members to spy for Beijing and pleaded guilty to acting as foreign agents without prior notification to the Attorney General, according to The Hindu, which reported they were arrested in California on Friday.

Polish police entered the premises of the Constitutional Tribunal on Friday after demonstrators gathered in Warsaw to protest the suspension of its head judge, Bogdan Swieczkowski. Police said there were incidents outside the court, with objects thrown at officers, and that three people were detained. Justice Minister Waldemar Zurek requested that the immunity of Swieczkowski and his deputy be lifted for preventing judges elected by the parliamentary majority from taking up their duties. Prime Minister Donald Tusk wrote on X that restoring the rule of law is the government’s duty.

Switzerland's Supreme Court upheld on Friday the 20-year prison sentence of former Liberian rebel commander Alieu Kosiah for war crimes, but overturned his conviction for crimes against humanity, according to Al Jazeera.

Polish President Karol Nawrocki cut short his flight to Senegal on Friday and announced he was returning to the country after police entered the premises of the Constitutional Tribunal and its president was suspended, according to TRT World. Police said officers entered the tribunal’s premises following incidents outside the court, including the throwing of dangerous objects at police. The tribunal announced on its website that its president, Bogdan Swieczkowski, had been suspended on Friday. The dispute over the Constitutional Tribunal has dragged on and effectively paralyzed the institution: earlier this year, Nawrocki, an ally of the former nationalist government, refused to swear in three of the six judges nominated by parliament.

A judge at a Lebanese military court charged 13 people over a truck carrying explosives belonging to Hezbollah that authorities seized earlier this month, state media reported. Two of the defendants were arrested when the shipment was seized and are in custody. The others remain at large and were charged in absentia, five of them listed only by nicknames. The truck was stopped at a checkpoint on the main highway linking Beirut with the eastern Bekaa Valley and was carrying 780 kilograms of explosives, including 250 kilograms of TNT and 250 kilograms of C-4, according to judicial officials.

Israel’s Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency said in an official statement that the investigation into suspected voter fraud was “targeted and limited”, Middle East Eye reported. Dean Livne, acting director general of the Central Elections Committee, said separately there was “no basis for allegations of systematic violations of election integrity”. Ra’am and the Joint List, which contested the election on two separate slates, won 19 seats, potentially giving them a decisive role in coalition negotiations.

Former El Salvador president Elias Antonio Saca has been released after serving a 10-year sentence for corruption, according to Al Jazeera. Saca, 61, governed from 2004 to 2009 and was sentenced in 2018 for embezzlement and money laundering over the diversion of state funds, according to AP.

France's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office confirmed Thursday that Kevin T., 39, had been formally charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, after admitting he targeted people who appeared to be Muslim, African or North African, according to Al Jazeera. Last Friday he fired from his car at people in the towns of Trappes and La Verrière, west of Paris, killing one and wounding seven others, including a child; most of the victims had foreign heritage.

The Shin Bet (Israel's internal security service) said Thursday that its inquiry into suspected foreign interference in the election was based on intelligence it collected itself and rejected that the material came from a political party, warning against using the investigation to cast suspicion on an entire community of voters, according to the Jerusalem Post. The Central Elections Committee rejected claims of systematic fraud, saying the vote was conducted lawfully, and police said there was no investigative support for Likud's broad stolen-election allegations.

With more than 99 percent of Tuesday's ballots counted, Benjamin Netanyahu's bloc held 53 of the 120 Knesset seats and the opposition bloc led by Gadi Eisenkot 48, while the Arab lists combined for 19, with no bloc reaching a majority, according to Al Jazeera. The broadcaster said the final results will be certified and announced by Wednesday and that the numbers may change until then.

A soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has been indicted for providing information to Iran, the Shin Bet, the Israel Police and the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a joint statement. According to the Jerusalem Post, the information he allegedly provided included the locations and coordinates of military bases, along with photographs of interceptor missiles, military vehicles and the US refueling aircraft stationed at an Israeli airport. The Times of Israel reported that the soldier was charged with spying for Iran in exchange for cryptocurrency.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 46, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, pleaded guilty in federal court to 12 hate-crime charges for using Molotov cocktails to attack members of the group Run for Their Lives and others. According to the US Department of Justice, the attack killed one person and caused permanent and life-threatening injuries to several others, and Soliman admitted that he targeted the group because of the victims’ actual or perceived Israeli national origin and Jewish religion. The Times of Israel described the case as an antisemitic attack on a hostage rally in the United States.

Senator Flavio Bolsonaro landed with his family at Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport in Florida shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday, and President Donald Trump’s administration is issuing visas to him and his family, a State Department official told ABC News. In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, he thanked Argentina’s government and Trump for helping him leave Brazil and said: “I did not flee Brazil.” He also claimed, without any evidence, that there was fraud in Sunday’s election. Trump told reporters that “we gave him a pass to come into the country.”

A court in the United Arab Emirates has sentenced eight people to life imprisonment over arms trafficking and money laundering linked to Sudan’s army, state media reported. The network intertwined arms deals, commercial companies, bank transfers and cash payments in the supply of weapons, ammunition and military equipment to the Sudanese Army. The court ordered the confiscation of ammunition and communications devices used in the crimes and the deportation of those convicted from the UAE after serving their sentences.

The president of Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Kassio Nunes Marques, and his deputy, André Mendonça, are seeking to distance themselves from Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ) after the release of a letter in which the defeated candidate questions the result of the 2026 presidential election, according to Brasil 247. A few hours after the letter was released, on Wednesday night (28), Nunes Marques published a note defending the integrity of the electoral process without naming Flávio Bolsonaro. Jurist Lenio Streck says the letter may amount to falsification of a public seal and that it must be established “whether the emblem was used to give an official appearance to a private statement and who was responsible for that use,” according to CartaCapital.

A special tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif to death for the killing of six people in Kushtia during the July Uprising, according to The Hindu. Hanif is the 23rd leader of the now-disbanded Awami League to receive the death penalty since Sheikh Hasina's ouster.

Thailand's prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, has reportedly revoked the citizenship of the country's chief rabbi, Yosef Chaim Kantor, because he kept using his US passport to enter and exit countries, in violation of Thai law. Kantor, who was born in the United States and has lived in Thailand since 1993, was granted Thai citizenship in 2013 through the country's naturalization process, according to The Times of Israel.

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court sentenced the human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha, a married couple, to 10 years in prison on Thursday in a security breach case, her family said, according to the Hindustan Times. The couple was accused of endangering an international cricket team's security plans by staging a protest and blocking a road in a 2024 case.

Donald Trump reiterated that he will not get involved in Flávio Bolsonaro’s case after his escape from Brazil. Flávio’s attempt to present himself as the true elected president of Brazil caused discomfort behind the scenes in the United States government, according to Brasil 247. In Italy, deputy Angelo Bonelli, of the Europa Verde party, asked the Foreign and Interior ministries for explanations about the Italian citizenships of Flávio, Eduardo and Carlos Bolsonaro.

Workers’ Party (PT) lawmakers asked Brazil’s Federal Police (PF) to investigate who organized, financed and facilitated Senator Flávio Bolsonaro’s departure from the country, despite an order from the Supreme Federal Court (STF), according to Opera Mundi. According to Brasil de Fato, the senator crossed the Tancredo Neves International Bridge between Foz do Iguaçu and Puerto Iguazú at 10:50 p.m. on Tuesday and boarded a private jet 40 minutes later that made a stopover in Ecuador. Also according to Brasil de Fato, Argentine opposition lawmakers accused Javier Milei’s government of facilitating the escape and demanded recognition of Lula’s victory.

A South Korean special prosecutor demanded the death penalty on Thursday for ousted president Yoon Suk-yeol, ahead of an appeal court verdict on rebellion charges over his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024, the South China Morning Post reported. Yoon is appealing the life sentence handed down in February by the Seoul Central District Court, and the Seoul High Court has yet to set a date for a verdict, according to the Associated Press (AP). South Korea has not executed anyone since 1997, effectively maintaining a moratorium on capital punishment, according to the same newspaper.

A federal judge rejected a request from the United States government to stop California from processing the ballots of up to 20,000 people over allegations they are likely noncitizens, warning it would “wreak havoc” on the midterm elections, according to the AP. In the ruling, the judge wrote that eroded trust in democracy is irreparable, that once a vote is segregated, lasting harm has occurred and that democracy is in danger if the Executive can discount votes because of unproven allegations. The Justice Department said it would immediately appeal the decision.

A Romanian court extended the pre-trial detention of Calin Georgescu by 30 days, in an investigation into an alleged 1.1-million-euro fraud case. The ruling by the Bucharest Court of Appeal overturned an October 13 decision by a lower court that ordered the pro-Russian former frontrunner in Romania's canceled 2024 presidential election to be moved from police custody to house arrest for 30 days. The court kept Georgescu and Ionel Rusen in detention until November 27, 2026, in a decision that is final.

Alvin Hellerstein, the US federal judge handling the case against Venezuela’s ousted president Nicolás Maduro, has died at 92, the federal court for the Southern District of New York confirmed, according to Le Monde. Maduro’s trial had been due to open on July 1, 2027. Hellerstein was one of the oldest US federal judges, and questions had been raised about whether he was the right judge to preside over what could be a prolonged trial of Maduro on drug-trafficking charges, according to the South China Morning Post.

Deputy Myriam Bregman of the Left Front told Opera Mundi that the opposition is filing a public information request in Congress on Wednesday over Flávio Bolsonaro's passage through Argentina. “It is clear that Milei collaborated,” she said. Argentina's National Directorate of Migration said in the early hours of Wednesday that Flávio, his wife and their two daughters crossed the Tancredo Neves International Bridge between Foz do Iguaçu and Puerto Iguazú at 22:50 on Tuesday.

British prosecutors said they had charged two British nationals under the National Security Act over an incident last month at the RAF Fairford airbase, and police say the two are suspected of assisting Iran, according to CNN. The base had been used by US B-1 bombers to carry out strikes on Iran, and the aircraft were withdrawn on security grounds shortly after five men were arrested outside the base in the early hours of September 27.

Police in Brazil canceled the passports of Flávio Bolsonaro after he failed to comply with an order to hand over the documents, as part of an investigation into money laundering that he denies, according to the BBC. On Monday, the Supreme Court had ordered him to hand the passports to police within 24 hours. A senior State Department official said the Trump administration will issue visas to the senator and his family and allow them to enter the country, after news outlets reported that he fled Brazil after losing the presidential election, according to Al Jazeera.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, reelected, called the departure of Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, the defeated candidate, “shameful” and said the Bolsonaro supporter will “lick the boots of the United States”, according to Brasil de Fato. Flávio, his wife and their two daughters left Brazil and headed to the United States after Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes demanded the surrender of their passports and barred him from leaving the country, the outlet reported on Tuesday (27).

A grand jury in Washington rejected prosecutors' request to return an indictment charging Cassidy Hutchinson, people said, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the case, according to The Guardian. Details of the prosecutors' allegations against her were not immediately clear, but Republican lawmakers had accused her of lying under oath in her 2022 testimony about Trump's behavior on January 6, the newspaper reported.

The journalist Lina Attalah was released from custody after the payment of a three million Egyptian pound (US$53,400) fine, her lawyer, Hassan al-Azhari, said, according to Le Monde. An Egyptian court ordered the closure of Mada Masr and fined Attalah three million Egyptian pounds (US$53,400) for running a website without a license, Al Jazeera reported. During the release procedures, she learned that she had been sentenced in absentia in 2024 to one year in prison, on charges of publishing false news and running an unlicensed website.

The State Department will grant visas to Flávio Bolsonaro and his family and allow them into the country, a senior State Department official told the Associated Press (AP), after the senator’s weekend loss to incumbent Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Earlier, Reuters and The New York Times reported, citing anonymous sources, that he had left Brazil for the United States — a case under investigation by the Federal Police (PF) —, and the Trump administration has not said whether the senator is already on American soil.

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro left Brazil for the United States after losing the October 25 election and refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to hand over his passports, according to two sources cited by The Hindu. Donald Trump’s government is aware of the trip and will grant the senator asylum, according to Folha de S.Paulo, as cited by Opera Mundi.

The deadline for defeated Brazilian presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro to surrender his regular and diplomatic passports expired at noon on Tuesday, and it remained unclear whether he had complied with the order, AP reported. Brazilian police cancelled the passports after he failed to comply with an order to surrender the documents, the BBC reported. Argentine authorities told the BBC there was no record of Bolsonaro entering their country through any border crossing.

Supreme Federal Court (STF) justice Flávio Dino ordered the Federal Police (PF) to open an inquiry into possible foreign interference in Brazil's electoral process, mainly through hidden campaign financing, according to Opera Mundi. The ruling, reported by Agência Brasil, orders investigators to establish the nature of the dealings between representatives of the Rockbridge Network and Tallis Gomes and Pedro Sang, including any link between funds, services or other economically measurable advantages and the electoral campaign. It also calls for an inquiry into a possible link between electoral support and the economic interest of foreign agents in Brazil's rare earths and critical minerals.

An Egyptian court convicted Mada Masr editor-in-chief Lina Attalah on Tuesday of running a website without a licence and ordered the independent outlet closed, according to Middle East Eye. Attalah was taken into custody after the verdict pending bail, Reuters reported in a text republished by KFGO.

Italy’s courts hold a new hearing on Tuesday to reassess the extradition request for former congresswoman Carla Zambelli, and the session examines questions from Court of Cassation judges about prison conditions in Brazil, including the guarantee of medical care for the illnesses she says she has, according to G1. If the decision is favorable, Zambelli would return to Brazil to serve a sentence of 5 years and 3 months in prison, according to InfoMoney.

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL) reportedly left Brazil on the night of October 26 for Argentina on a private flight, to continue on to the United States, according to the Argentine website Infobae, which reported the case early this morning. The general coordinator of Flávio's presidential campaign, Senator Rogério Marinho (PL-RN), denied the information. On October 26, the Federal Police summoned Flávio to hand over his ordinary and diplomatic passports within 24 hours, following a determination by Supreme Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes.

An Iraqi court on Tuesday sentenced six French nationals to life in prison and a seventh to 15 years after convicting them of membership in the Islamic State (IS) group, a Reuters witness inside the courtroom said, France 24 reported. The men were among 47 French IS suspects transferred from detention facilities in northeast Syria to Iraq last year under a broader relocation arrangement coordinated by US forces and Iraqi authorities.

Two men have been charged with national security offences after an investigation into a suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford in the UK, according to the Guardian. One of them, a 24-year-old man, was charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service, the BBC reported. The charges were brought under the National Security Act, according to the BBC.

South Korea’s Supreme Court held a hearing on Tuesday to decide whether to issue a new arrest warrant for jailed former first lady Kim Keon Hee, according to Yonhap. The hearing was set for 2:30 p.m. after special counsel Min Joong-ki’s team requested the warrant for Kim, the wife of former President Yoon Suk Yeol, the agency reported. Xinhua reported that the court issued an additional arrest warrant for the former first lady.

The Special Criminal Court of the Central African Republic is at risk of closure by 2028 with thousands of victims awaiting justice, Amnesty International says in a new report — the court has tried six cases since its inauguration on 22 October 2018, resulting in 19 convictions for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Flávio Bolsonaro said he will “organize the opposition” to Lula’s government and reiterated that he would seek to annul the election, arguing that an extension of voting hours on Sunday favored Lula, despite having also requested the measure, in a video posted to Instagram and cited by France 24. The senator and son of former president Jair Bolsonaro did not back down from the annulment request even though he had pushed for the extended hours.

A US appeals court ruled on Monday against Donald Trump’s Justice Department in a major voting dispute ahead of the midterm elections, denying a request to block California from counting mail ballots from people on a list of more than 20,000 registered voters, the Guardian reported. On Friday, at least 18 counties across California received letters demanding local election officials set aside and verify those ballots.

Judge Jesse Furman ruled that the Trump administration overstepped the boundaries of executive authority when it fired federal prosecutor Maurene Comey without cause, Al Jazeera reported. Furman granted her back pay from her firing on July 16, 2025, through December and said she is entitled to “retroactive reinstatement” for that period. The ruling came hours before court documents in the new case against her father, James Comey, became public, Le Monde reported.

The US Department of Justice has accused former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey of knowingly sharing information related to US national defense with a person unauthorized to receive it in October 2016, while he ran the agency, Le Monde reported. It is the third legal proceeding against Comey in just over a year. “Nothing’s changed with me. I’m still innocent, and I’m still not afraid of these people, and I still believe in the independent federal judiciary,” he told Al Jazeera.

Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL), defeated by Lula (PT) in the presidential election, said on Monday that he was summoned by the Federal Police to hand over his passports and is barred from leaving the country. He called the measure ‘a clear attempt’ to intimidate him and said he will comply: ‘I will hand over my passports and defend myself against this aberration.’ The statements were published by Carta Capital.

Six citizens sued Donald Trump on Monday, arguing that banning journalists from the White House violates the public's right to independent news. The suit argues that when Trump bans news organizations from White House premises, it is not only their rights that are violated. Unlike previous legal action against the president, the plaintiffs are ordinary citizens, shifting the focus from news gatherers to news consumers and implying a much larger pool of stakeholders, according to PBS.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is considering adding an economic espionage charge against Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi former OpenAI engineer accused of secretly recording conversations in an executive conference room at the company, according to a law-enforcement official who spoke to The Wall Street Journal, as cited by Middle East Eye. The probe examines whether Alfozan may have stolen information from the company to offer to the Saudi government, even if he was not recruited to do so, and the investigation may not lead to new charges.

Brazil's Federal Police (PF) arrested on Monday in Santana do Livramento the Uruguayan Pedro Antonio Mato Narbondo, convicted by the Italian courts of kidnapping, torture and the deaths of four Italian citizens during Uruguay's military dictatorship, G1 reported. The life sentence handed down by the Milan Court of Appeal was converted to 30 years, since Brazil does not provide for that penalty. According to deputy prosecutor-general Artur Gueiros, it is the first time an agent of a dictatorial regime will serve prison time in Brazil for human rights violations.

Flávio Bolsonaro’s campaign asked the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) to annul the runoff and extend voting, G1 reported. According to the same report, court justices assess that the annulment request should not succeed, and the court’s president, Nunes Marques, recognized Lula’s victory at a press conference after the vote.

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman called on Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara to open a criminal investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on suspicion of treason, according to a statement released on Monday and reported by the Jerusalem Post. The request cites a Sunday report by Channel N12 that Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Eyal Zamir clashed over a proposed military operation that could trigger a confrontation with Iran, two days before Israel's October 27 election. Liberman accused Netanyahu of trying to draw Israel into a military confrontation to prevent the elections from taking place.

Vote counting in Brazil's presidential runoff began on Sunday after Supreme Court justice Cristiano Zanin ordered voting extended by two hours, granting a request from Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's campaign. The campaign alleged that authorities in several cities were restricting voter access to public transportation. With the extension, votes for nearly 160 million Brazilians began to be counted, with results expected in the coming hours, according to Al Jazeera.

Interpol will seek approval at its general assembly in Hong Kong next month for a new “silver notice” system to track and seize criminals' assets and speed up financial investigations into transnational crime, according to the South China Morning Post.

Lula and Flávio Bolsonaro both asked for the runoff voting to be extended, for different reasons — the president cited buses pulled from circulation in São Paulo and in northeastern cities, saying 40 percent of buses were out of service in the state capital; the senator cited heavy rains in the south and southeast —, and the Supreme Court granted it, extending voting nationwide until 7 pm local time and citing “the seriousness of the facts narrated”, AFP reported. A regional electoral court ordered the arrest of Salvador’s transport secretary for failing to offer free transport on election day.

Supreme Federal Court (STF) justice Cristiano Zanin ordered a two-hour extension, to 7pm Brasília time, of the closing of vote receiving in every polling station across Brazil. Hours earlier, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's coalition had asked the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) to extend voting to 7pm in cities of at least nine states – São Paulo, Alagoas, Pernambuco, Roraima, Piauí, Paraíba, Pará, Paraná and Rio de Janeiro. In Salvador, checks by the Bahia Regional Electoral Court (TRE-BA) found that less than 50% of the bus fleet expected on weekdays was running.

Iran's supreme leader directed the judiciary to pursue compensation for damages caused by the US-Israeli war, according to the state news agency IRNA, in a report by Middle East Eye.

Meta told Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) that it found no evidence of coordinated inauthentic behavior or of violations of its rules by the “Exército do Lula” channel, according to Brasil de Fato. The conclusion is preliminary: the company said other posts are still pending verification and asked for five more days for a complete response.

The US Department of Justice sued on Thursday to block the certification of the Alaska Senate race if the Republican Party loses, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Yahoo News. Daniel J. Sullivan, from the small fishing community of Petersburg, is also on the state ballot, according to AP.

A shooting left one person dead and four wounded on Friday in Trappes and neighboring La Verrière, west of Paris, according to TRT World. France’s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office said it is investigating the case as “murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise”, the outlet reported. The individual was arrested and placed in police custody, and all security forces were fully mobilized, TRT World reported. The BBC reported at least one dead and four injured in the Paris suburb.

Israel's Supreme Court barred polling station officials and observers appointed by political parties from using digital tools to count voters and transmit the numbers in real time to the organisations they represent. The ruling was decided by two votes to one and overturned an authorisation granted by Dean Livne, interim director of the Central Elections Committee, who had allowed the practice. The measure comes days before Israel's parliamentary elections, set for October 27, 2026.

The New York Police Department said on Thursday it was investigating the stabbing of a Jewish man the previous day as a potential hate crime, according to the Times of Israel.

The president of Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Justice Kassio Nunes Marques, gave Meta 24 hours to submit a technical report on how the “Exército do Lula” channel works, a WhatsApp group supporting the re-election bid of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the Workers’ Party (PT). The ruling requires the company to explain the technical criteria it uses to tell “legitimate mobilisation” apart from “potentially irregular coordinated behaviour”. US lawmakers demanded answers from Meta after reports that WhatsApp’s artificial intelligence refused to create images of Lula while accepting those of Flávio Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party (PL), according to G1.

Hours after the preventive detention of opposition leader and former presidential candidate Luisa González, her party, Citizen Revolution, called a nationwide mobilisation in Ecuador for her release on Thursday, October 22.

The minister Ricardo Villas Bôas Cueva, of Brazil’s Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), on Thursday denied a request by presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) to suspend the Lula (PT) government’s official notifications and messages sent via WhatsApp and the Gov.br system, according to Carta Capital. Reviewing the request, Cueva said the messages presented had apparently informative content, with no references to candidacy, vote requests or expressions of electoral support.

The campaigns of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) and senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) signed on Thursday at the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) a joint document authorizing the full and simultaneous opening of their bank, tax and telephone records, according to Brasil de Fato. The text asks minister André Mendonça to request the data from the Central Bank, financial institutions, the Federal Revenue Service and telephone operators still on Thursday, and the disclosure covers the last eight years.

Germany's federal prosecutors confirmed on Thursday the arrest of a Ukrainian man identified as Vadym Y. in the state of Brandenburg, 85 km west of Berlin, on suspicion of spying for Russia. According to DW World, the suspect allegedly used his connections to European defense firms to gather information, which he passed on to a Russian intelligence agency.

Argentina declared five criminal groups and guerrilla organizations from Latin America as terrorist organizations, including Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel, according to the Associated Press (AP). The resolution also covers the Nueva Familia Michoacana, also of Mexico, and Ecuador's Los Tiguerones. AP notes that the move follows the security policy of the United States, Argentina's main ally in the region.

Police in Ecuador arrested former presidential candidate Luisa González on Thursday (22), the main political rival of President Daniel Noboa, and the country’s Attorney General’s Office ordered her held in pretrial detention over an alleged money-laundering crime, according to G1 and Opera Mundi. González belongs to the Citizen Revolution party. According to Opera Mundi, the investigations would be based on testimony from Estefanía Molina Freire, who reportedly worked in the financial management of the 2023 presidential campaign and alleges the receipt of illicit funds from “sources in Venezuela”, between US$ 300,000 and US$ 500,000.

The campaign coordination of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s re-election bid said the PT candidate accepted his opponent’s conditions for lifting the bank and telephone secrecy of himself and his relatives, provided Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) complies with what is in the request filed with the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), according to campaign coordinator Camilo Santana. “All the conditions he set, the president’s answer is that he does not oppose absolutely anything he is proposing,” Santana said. Among the PL’s demands are the lifting of the telephone secrecy of former chief of staff Marco Aurélio Santana Ribeiro, known as Marcola, and the release of information on the presidency’s corporate card, according to Carta Capital.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) raided the European Parliament premises of the far-right Patriots for Europe grouping on Wednesday as part of a funding probe, Reuters reported. The office confirmed searches at European Parliament premises in France and Belgium as part of an ongoing investigation into the use of European funds, according to Le Monde.

Federal prosecutors in Mexico charged former Chihuahua attorney general César Jáuregui Moreno with treason for allowing US agents to join a raid on a suspected drug lab in April without federal authorization, the BBC reported. Attorney General Ernestina Godoy Ramos said Jáuregui had allowed foreign agents to carry out activities reserved for Mexican authorities and had failed to share information; he denies the allegations and was arrested on the weekend, with a court hearing scheduled for Saturday. The case came to light after two US agents said to have worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) died in a car crash in Chihuahua along with two Mexican law enforcement officers, on April 19.

A judge on Wednesday ordered Meta to pay New Mexico $25 billion after a jury found the company liable for deceiving users about privacy and content moderation policies on Facebook, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Jurors in September found Meta liable for over 43 million violations of New Mexico consumer protection laws when the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica harvested Facebook user data.

French security forces arrested a man on Tuesday believed to be linked to ultra-left movements over the burning down of a historic town hall in Limoges, according to The Hindu. The man, 34 according to a source with knowledge of the case, was detained by officers of the RAID unit in the nearby town of Val d’Issoire, the Limoges prosecutor’s office said, and the Counter-Terrorism Sub-Directorate (SDAT) was called in to investigate the suspected arson of the 1883 building, whose roof and belfry collapsed. In parliament, deputies reached an agreement on Tuesday to create a commission of inquiry into the weekend violence, according to Carta Capital.

Burkina Faso's justice ministry said Tuesday that the junta ruling the country reinstated the death penalty, abolished in 2018, following a unanimous vote by the unelected legislature, according to AFP, in a text republished by Nampa. The new penal code reintroducing capital punishment “aims to strengthen public order, consolidate the nation's fundamental values and guarantee security for people and property”, the ministry said.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's campaign team will request the disqualification of rival Flavio Bolsonaro on Tuesday over alleged election interference by tech giant Meta, a source told AFP in a text republished by France 24. The court on Monday gave Meta 24 hours to prove it was complying with an order to treat both campaigns equally, threatening a daily fine of around $200,000 if it did not. Meta has denied taking any actions to favour one side in the election, but previously said that some of Lula's campaign ads had been mistakenly deactivated due to technical errors.

A Lebanese judge summoned two Hezbollah officials over a seized explosives shipment, and Lebanese security agencies are working to locate them and take them into custody, according to a judicial official cited by The Times of Israel, after Hezbollah admitted the explosives belonged to it.

Pastor Paul Mackenzie, leader of a Kenyan doomsday cult linked to more than 400 deaths, was convicted Monday of murdering 190 children and one adult after ordering followers to starve themselves to death to meet Jesus, the Associated Press reported. Justice Diana Kavedza ruled that Mackenzie, leader of the Good News International Church, oversaw an organized system that used religious teachings to compel followers to fast until they died. A mitigation hearing will be held on Oct. 30, while sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 6.

Florida's public ministry in the US obtained an arrest warrant against former president Raúl Castro for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder over the 1996 downing of two planes belonging to an exile organization, according to Rádiotelevisão Portuguesa (RTP) — Cuba condemned the move as a “reprehensible maneuver” by the US, according to Opera Mundi.

Brazil's Superior Electoral Court (TSE) gave Meta 24 hours to prove it is treating President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his right-wing opponent Flávio Bolsonaro equally, according to Le Monde. The Monday ruling said Meta had failed to demonstrate compliance with the order and increased the penalty to $200,000 per day, according to a court document seen by AFP.

A Hamburg court found two men guilty of plotting to kill two leaders of Jewish organizations at Tehran’s behest and, after that, Iran summoned Germany’s ambassador, Axel Dittmann, according to Al Jazeera. The Dane, partially identified as Ali Hassan S, was jailed for eight-and-a-half years; the Afghan recruited as his accomplice, for four-and-a-half years. Tehran rejects the accusations as “baseless political claims” and says that attempting to give them a judicial face undermines the standing of the German judiciary itself.

A court in the US state of Florida issued an arrest warrant for 95-year-old former Cuban leader Raúl Castro, according to TASS, which cites NBC News. Castro faces four counts of murder, two counts of destroying an aircraft and conspiracy to murder US citizens.

A court in Kenya found the leader of a Christian doomsday sect, Paul Mackenzie, guilty of murdering 191 people, all but one of them children, the BBC reported. Mackenzie and his Good News International Church organized a sect that ordered followers to starve themselves and their children to death so they could go to heaven before the world ended and “meet Jesus”, according to prosecutors cited by Al Jazeera. Twenty-nine other leaders of the sect were also convicted of murder in the same trial, the BBC reported; they had all pleaded not guilty and repeatedly insisted that nobody was forced to die.

A Bangladeshi man and woman were executed in Mecca on Wednesday after being convicted of committing an “indecent act” inside a mosque, according to the Saudi interior ministry, the BBC reported. Bangladeshi authorities said they were not informed of the execution until after it had taken place.

Israeli police said on Monday they were examining a complaint filed by the Rabbis for Human Rights NGO against Rabbi Dov Lior over a religious ruling that permits Jews to harvest olives belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank, the Times of Israel reported. In the ruling, written on Friday, Lior said Palestinian land “had essentially been stolen from Jews”, since the Jewish people never willingly relinquished its property in the Land of Israel, and that Jews were therefore permitted to harvest olive trees on Palestinian property “in order to show to the public our ownership of the land”.

Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) approved on Friday (16 October) new rules to identify WhatsApp channels linked to electoral campaigns, amid the legal dispute over the Exército do Lula channel, which has more than four million followers, and complaints of possible political favoritism on Meta’s platforms. Unanimously, the resolution sets out six criteria for establishing a link, requires channels that meet them to be registered with the Electoral Justice and makes campaigns and administrators responsible for the legality of their posts.

Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, pleaded not guilty on Thursday (October 15), during a hearing in a Manhattan court in New York, according to Opera Mundi. The two were captured in Caracas during a US operation in January 2026 and taken to New York.

US President Donald Trump called off plans to stream the Fort Hood attacker’s execution by firing squad, according to the BBC. Trump said on Thursday that “many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die”. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth had previously announced that the public would be able to watch the firing squad execution of former US army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan. Hasan fatally shot 13 unarmed US soldiers at a military base in Texas in 2009, injuring another 32.

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were expected to appear on Thursday in a federal court in Manhattan to face newly filed criminal charges, according to NBC New York. Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein entered a not-guilty plea on their behalf, the Associated Press reported.

Six Palestinian farmers petitioned Israel’s High Court of Justice to restore access to farmland blocked for three years around Nahalin, in the occupied West Bank. The petition was filed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which is seeking an urgent hearing as the olive harvest begins, according to The Jerusalem Post.

The US Department of Justice said that Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a former OpenAI engineer, was arrested last week on allegations of placing a secret audio recording device inside an executive conference room at the company. OpenAI discovered the device on 30 September, connected to a USB port behind a television in an executive meeting room at its San Francisco office, according to the FBI complaint. The company said it has no indications, at this time, that the individual inappropriately accessed or exfiltrated model weights, source code or customer data; the employee was terminated.

A Ukrainian man accused of helping to mastermind the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines went on trial for war crimes in Germany on Wednesday, with his defence calling for the case to be dismissed, according to the South China Morning Post. The first hearing took place at the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, according to TASS. The German Federal Prosecutor's Office says the suspect and his accomplices, also service members, acted on orders from Ukrainian government agencies.

Iran’s Judiciary announced the execution of Ali Sina Mostafavi in Kerman on Wednesday morning, following confirmation of the sentence by the Supreme Court, according to Press TV. According to the Judiciary, the convict shot and wounded civilians, including a minor girl, in armed attacks during the 40-day war, and security forces seized from his hideout a Brno sniper rifle with a scope, a shotgun, firearms and 246 cartridges and 30 Molotov cocktails, the outlet said.

The US fined Bank of America US$1.2 billion for violating money laundering and sanctions laws, according to the South China Morning Post. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that when a bank of this size fails to meet its anti-money-laundering and sanctions obligations, the consequences extend far beyond its own walls and expose the entire US financial system to significant illicit finance risks. Regulators cite failures involving US$5 billion in suspicious activity, according to the Hindustan Times.

Germany put a Ukrainian on trial, accused of blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines, according to BBC News. The defendant is a 50-year-old Ukrainian identified as Serhii K. by the German federal prosecutor’s office and suspected of being one of the main organizers of the operation, according to Le Monde. His full name, Serhii Kuznietsov, was revealed during his extradition from Italy.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said a correspondent for the Japanese newspaper Hokkaido Shimbun in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, in the Russian Far East, was detained on suspicion of espionage, transported to Moscow and placed in custody, according to TASS. Moscow's Lefortovsky District Court placed the journalist under arrest under Article 276 of the Criminal Code, which covers espionage.

Two Maldivian pilots employed by flydubai were taken into custody in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on October 3, and their families have been formally informed of their detention by the Maldivian embassy in the UAE, according to The Hindu. Flight FZ1073, carrying 174 passengers and crew members, was travelling from Dubai to Tel Aviv when the alleged attack took place. The UAE has described the incident as an attempted terrorist attack and identified the accused co-pilot as 29-year-old al-Hammami.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez’s government has handed Álvaro Pulido over to the United States, according to El País. Pulido, Álex Saab’s Colombian-born associate, had been held in Caracas since 2023. He is due to appear Tuesday before a federal court in Miami, where he faces two criminal cases dating from 2019 and 2021. In one of them, prosecutors accuse him and Saab of laundering about $350 million through fictitious imports linked to a social housing contract.

US authorities conducted a predawn raid of Representative Ilhan Omar’s home in Washington, DC, on Monday as part of an ongoing investigation, the Justice Department said. Omar, a Minnesota congresswoman, said she “will not be silenced” and called the search of her home part of President Donald Trump’s “intimidation” campaign. Trump said Somalia, where she was born, is “one of the worst countries anywhere on the planet”.

Hungary's government submitted to Parliament late on September 14 a bill that would remove anti-LGBTQ+ rules prohibiting the “promotion of homosexuality” to under-18s implemented by Viktor Orban's former nationalist government, according to Reuters, in a text published by The Straits Times. Orban's government, which was ousted after 16 years in an election in April, promoted a Christian-conservative agenda and in 2021 banned the “display and promotion of homosexuality” and gender change in media content accessible by under-18s. Hungary's new Justice Minister Marta Gorog said in May that Hungary would need to revise legislation restricting access to LGBTQ+ content after the EU's top court ruled in April that the restrictions breached EU law.

US immigration agents searched the home of Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar on Monday morning in the Washington, DC, area as part of a “criminal investigation”, according to the BBC. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents executed a judicially authorized search warrant for the home, a US justice department spokesperson told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner. Omar was born in Somalia and came to the US aged eight, fleeing war. She was first elected to Congress in 2018 and is an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump.

N12 published on Sunday a transcript in which former chief of staff Tzachi Braverman asks a stenographer to change the time of the Netanyahu–Gil phone call from 6:40 to 6:29 on 10/7/2023, according to The Jerusalem Post citing N12. According to the transcript, Braverman said “it was at 6:29, not 6:40. Change the time”. Former military secretary Avi Gil accused Braverman of ordering the time changed, according to the same paper. Braverman’s defence denies it and says the transcript is false, according to the same paper.

Israeli opposition leaders demanded a criminal investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after his former military secretary, Avi Gil, said in an interview that the Prime Minister’s Office tampered with records from the day of the attack. According to Gil, Netanyahu’s chief of staff sought to have a 6:40 a.m. call recorded as having been made at 6:29 a.m., the minute the attack began. The former adviser also accused Netanyahu of prioritising his political survival over a deal that would free the captives.

The president of Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Justice Kassio Nunes Marques, ordered on Sunday the suspension of the “Exército do Lula” channel on WhatsApp, which has around 3.3 million followers. The decision granted a request from the campaign of presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro. On Saturday, the justice had suspended ads by Lula’s coalition that linked Flávio Bolsonaro and his running mate, Alfredo Gaspar, to scandals.

The European Parliament approved resolution P10_TA(2026)0342, calling for the Muslim Brotherhood's inclusion in the EU list of terrorist organizations on Thursday, with 381 votes in favor, 167 against and 15 abstentions. The text also calls on the Council to include entities and individuals linked to the Muslim Brotherhood on the EU list of terrorist organizations.

A New Delhi court ordered on Sunday the release of three leaders of the “cockroach” movement, including its founder, Abhijeet Dipke, their lawyer said, a day after they were detained. The trio had been detained on Saturday, ahead of a major protest against the country’s election commissioner, according to AFP, in a text republished by France 24.

Gadi Eisenkot, chairman of the Yashar! party, called on Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara to decide whether to indict Tzachi Braverman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former chief of staff, and others before the upcoming elections, according to The Jerusalem Post. Braverman acknowledged changing the recorded time of a conversation between Netanyahu and the military secretary on the morning of October 7, police sources say. Former military secretary Avi Gil said the time of the call was changed from 6:40 a.m. to 6:29 a.m.

Brazil’s public prosecutor’s office filed a lawsuit against the Brazilian subsidiary of oil company Shell, blaming it for the torrential rains that hit southern Brazil in 2024, according to Le Monde. The accusation attributes to Shell 2% of historical global greenhouse gas emissions linked to the exploration, production and marketing of fossil fuels, according to Le Monde. The prosecutor’s office is seeking 270 million reais for environmental and climate moral damages, plus the same amount for material damages, according to Le Monde.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, according to Al Jazeera. The committee said it was honoring her “for her efforts to promote peace and international law”, and Pillay is a former judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and former UN human rights chief, according to CBS News.

Two men accused of carrying out hostile surveillance on behalf of Iran against Israel’s embassy in London, Britain’s oldest synagogue and other Israeli or Jewish targets pleaded not guilty on Friday. Nematollah Shahsavani, 41, a dual Iranian-British national, and Alireza Farasati, 22, an Iranian national, appeared at London’s Old Bailey court and denied a single offence under the National Security Act, according to Reuters, in a text republished by the Jerusalem Post. The pair allegedly gathered information and undertook reconnaissance in July and August 2025, with a list of targets including the Israeli Embassy, the Israeli Consulate and London’s Bevis Marks Synagogue.

The Pentagon says Nidal Hasan's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, according to the BBC. The execution is scheduled for December 3 at Fort Hood, in Texas. Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in the 2009 attack on the military base.

Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered on Thursday (08/10) the issuance of an arrest warrant against former federal lawmaker Eduardo Bolsonaro, who is in the United States (US), according to Opera Mundi. The measure was ordered after the justice enforced Eduardo’s sentence of four years and two months in prison for coercion in the course of the proceedings. The sentence is to be served in a semi-open regime, according to Revista Oeste.

Police in the UK have agreed that warrants they secured to search properties linked to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had been issued unlawfully and must be quashed. High Court Justice Nicholas Hilliard said the Thames Valley Police had made a “significant error” in applying for the warrants, and that quashing them does not bring an investigation to an end, according to Al Jazeera.

Prosecutors in the United States (US) have accused Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, of conspiracy to commit torture, in charges made public on Thursday. The fresh charges are in addition to the drug-trafficking and weapons charges already brought against them, which they have denied, and relate to the alleged torture of US citizens held in Venezuela while Maduro was in power, according to the BBC.

Federal prosecutors in the US are expected to bring new charges against Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, for allegedly torturing Americans, according to CBS News. The charges involve the torture of more than a dozen Americans wrongfully detained under Maduro's government, and additional people may be charged, according to the BBC, in a text citing CBS. Lawyers for Flores, 69, argued that she has medical issues that cannot be treated effectively in jail and that she could instead live under 24-hour guard, according to the Associated Press, in a text published by WPXI.

British police charged a member of the Royal Navy on Thursday with offences under the National Security Act for allegedly obtaining protected information and preparing to disclose it to benefit a foreign power, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Global Banking & Finance. The accused is Teddy Young, 24, who faces two offences and is due to appear at London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court later on Thursday. Police did not name the foreign power. Police said the charges were not connected to the recent investigation into an incident at the RAF Fairford airbase, which US officials have said involved a potential Iranian drone attack.

Venezuela’s ousted president Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores are expected to face new criminal charges in the US over the alleged torture of Americans held in the South American country, a US official said on Wednesday, according to Reuters, in a text published by The Jerusalem Post. The announcement could come as soon as Thursday. The possibility of new charges was first reported by CNN on Wednesday.

Israeli police opened a preliminary review into the Transportation Ministry’s aviation security system, against the backdrop of the attempted hijacking of flydubai flight FZ1073 on September 30, according to The Jerusalem Post. The review examines a possible conflict of interest involving Dvir Rubinstein, who privately provided consulting and training services to foreign airlines, including flydubai and Emirates, while working for the ministry. No one connected to the affair is currently being questioned under caution by the National Unit for Fraud Investigations, and no criminal investigation under caution is being conducted into anyone involved.

Israelis held protests, marches and demonstrations across the country on Wednesday, in addition to memorial ceremonies, on the third anniversary of the October 7, 2023 massacre, according to The Jerusalem Post. Many protesters called for more accountability from officials and a full state commission of inquiry into the national tragedy. The October Council said three years have passed and the truth has still not been fully investigated.

Former First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa was arrested over suspected misuse of donations to the Siriliya Saviya foundation meant for a children’s hospital, according to the Agence France-Presse (AFP), in a text republished by The Hindu. Investigators told a court that the scanner had already been donated by the Chinese government, but that the charity kept soliciting donations and misused the funds.

Details of the alleged murder by Marine Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, sparked a protest outside the US Embassy in Tokyo, according to CGTN, and US military authorities in Okinawa imposed movement restrictions on their personnel. The victim was identified as Anna Yagi, 39, a local resident of Naha, the prefectural capital, and an autopsy indicated death by strangulation, according to CGTN, citing local police. Benjamin Watson, head of US forces in Japan, ordered on Wednesday a 30-day off-base restriction starting October 9, banning off-base outings between midnight and 5 a.m., according to CGTN. Genta Koja, newly elected governor of Okinawa, announced he would travel to Tokyo on Wednesday to lodge an official protest with the central government, according to CGTN.

Iranian men accused of spying went on trial at Woolwich Crown Court on charges of engaging in conduct likely to assist Iran’s foreign intelligence service between August 2024 and March 2025, according to the Washington Post. The men targeted journalists for “serious violence”, BBC News reported.

Venezuela did not take any formal steps to demand the release of Maduro and Flores or to request their immunity so they would not be tried in the United States, according to El País. A hearing was scheduled for November 17 to address only the couple's immunity.

US President Donald Trump approved the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 people at a military base in 2009, according to the Pentagon, Le Monde reported. Hasan fatally shot 13 unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009 and injured another 32, according to the BBC. The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution.

Police clashed with demonstrators outside Kosovo’s parliament, who demanded the passage of a bill to curb the war crimes court, according to France24. The court is a hybrid tribunal: although it is part of Kosovo’s judiciary, it is staffed with international judges and based in The Hague, according to Balkan Insight.

Russia condemned the crime of the FlyDubai co-pilot, according to the Foreign Ministry, in a statement cited by TASS. Australian authorities launched a probe into the Omani co-pilot’s time in Australia after he was detained over an alleged attempt to seize an Israel-bound aircraft and crash it, according to AP, in a text republished by the San Bernardino Sun. The pilot is in custody in the United Arab Emirates after the alleged attempt to take control of the plane.

An Israeli mathematics lecturer from Petah Tikva in his 60s has been indicted over an alleged plan to kill hundreds of Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the occupied territories and force them from their homes, according to Middle East Eye. The indictment was filed on Monday by Central District prosecutors Roy Reis and Tomer Steinberg, according to i24NEWS. The plan called for recruiting 72 Jewish attackers, including himself, divided into 12 cells of six people, also according to Middle East Eye. The university said it “condemns in the strongest possible terms” and is “deeply appalled” by the acts attributed to the lecturer, and announced his immediate suspension, according to i24NEWS.

Wanying “Heather” Zhang, a 34-year-old realtor in California, was arrested at Los Angeles airport on October 4, 2026, as she was preparing to board a flight to Shanghai, accused of acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government, according to the Hindustan Times. The FBI says she travelled to Seattle in 2025 at the direction of Chinese officials and later sent photos, video and license plate information of the Taiwanese leader’s son and his family, according to The Hindu. The person being watched was Ting-Yu Lai, an engineer in his 30s who lives in the United States.

A Marine stationed at Futenma Air Station is suspected of killing a 39-year-old woman in a hotel in Naha on Saturday and taking her wallet and backpack, according to NBC News, citing local police; he was arrested at 1 a.m. Sunday, and the Government of Japan lodged a strong protest with the United States, calling the case brutal and heinous.

Australian authorities are investigating the links between the country and a Flydubai co-pilot who attempted to take control of a plane travelling to Israel, the BBC reported. The co-pilot is alleged to have attacked the captain with a crash axe during the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv before passengers managed to overpower him. Sources cited by ABC say he was issued a student visa in 2014 and studied in Australia between 2015 and 2017.

Iran said on October 3 that it executed Jamshidi, sentenced to death on charges of moharebeh through brandishing and firing a firearm and conspiracy and collusion against national security. The case is linked to anti-government protests, according to The Hindu.

The co-pilot of the Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv attacked the pilot with a cabin crash axe and attempted to take control of the aircraft, according to the United Arab Emirates’ prosecutor general. The plane, carrying more than 170 people, plunged 17,000ft (5,200m) two and a half hours into its journey. The prosecutor general said the co-pilot “attempted to carry out a terrorist attack”.

Former Republican congressman David Rivera has been sentenced to 10 years in a federal prison for money laundering and for working as an undeclared foreign agent, according to the BBC. NBC News reports the case involves a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on Venezuela’s behalf during the first Trump administration. There’s no dispute this money came from the Maduro regime, according to the BBC.

A US Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, including by buying materials for homemade explosives and drones and traveling to Yemen, according to the Associated Press, in a text republished by WGEM. Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, 51, of Richland, Washington, was arrested Thursday and is due to make his first court appearance Friday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says he had a goal of helping the Houthis improve their communications capabilities and traveled last September to Yemen.

The co-pilot of flight FZ1073 was transferred on Thursday to the United Arab Emirates, where Israeli officials are expected to question him, according to a source cited by Reuters. Israeli investigators are expected to take part in the investigation led by the United Arab Emirates alongside Emirati authorities, seeking to determine what happened and examine the suspect's motives and background.

Two Iranian men have been charged in relation to an alleged terror plot targeting Manchester's Jewish community, according to The Guardian. The men, both in their 30s, were arrested on 20 September, on the eve of Yom Kippur.

The man accused of murdering Ann Widdecombe has been charged with engaging in conduct in preparation of acts of terrorism, including against Nigel Farage, police have said. The charge, according to counter-terrorism police, relates to activity alleged to have taken place between 31 May 2024 and 8 July this year.

Brazil’s attorney general, Jorge Messias, called on law enforcement to investigate alleged efforts by the United States to fund far-right causes in Brazil, according to Al Jazeera. The request came one day after the British newspaper The Guardian published a story suggesting that Donald Trump’s administration planned to award $1m to right-wing civil groups opposing Brazil’s Supreme Court. Messias said foreign meddling “cannot be tolerated” and that the report was “an important alert for Brazilian sovereignty”.

Police in Bolivia arrested Attorney General Roger Mariaca and 13 other people accused of protecting drug traffickers days after the United States imposed visa restrictions on Mariaca over corruption allegations, according to The Washington Post. The US State Department said Mariaca received “bribes to facilitate drug trafficking and help violent criminals evade justice”, according to CBS News/AFP.

The UN human rights office urged Washington on Thursday (October 1, 2026) to ensure full reparations for people affected by U.S. nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands, according to The Hindu. The archipelago hosted 67 U.S. nuclear tests between 1946 and 1958, whose environmental and health impacts persist, and the local Nuclear Claims Tribunal set the total compensation to be paid at more than $2.3 billion.

British Sikh activist Jagtar Singh Johal has been released from a Delhi prison after nine years in detention, after the Indian high court warned the government it would be found in contempt of court if it continued to attempt to keep him in jail despite a September 18 order releasing him on bail, according to The Guardian. The nine-year detention on alleged terrorist offences has been a cause of diplomatic tension between the United Kingdom and India, and campaigners say the British government has not been active enough to secure his release or a full trial.

Hong Kong police arrested two people, including a journalist, for allegedly acting “with seditious intent”, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). Local media identified the detainees as independent journalist Tang Ho-wing and activist Lee Ying-chi. They were detained for investigation under a homegrown national security law passed in 2024.

The United States (US) formally notified on Monday its withdrawal from the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption body, according to The Guardian. The State Department confirmed the move and said that US participation, which requires an annual monetary contribution, “does not provide tangible benefits to US national security”, according to the Associated Press. [Only Russia and Belarus had left GRECO before], according to the Associated Press. The State Department also said that “the era of writing blank checks to international bureaucracies is over”.

The Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr demanded compensation from the United States (US) for the damage caused by the occupation of Iraq and called on Iraqis to file legal complaints, in a statement on Wednesday, the deadline for American forces to end their 12-year presence in the country. In the same statement he hailed the “independence of Iraq”, according to Middle East Eye, and said the US and “neighbouring countries” must refrain from interfering in Iraqi affairs.

About 400 inmates at Roumieh prison went on hunger strike on September 12 against the suspension of the general amnesty law, according to Al Jazeera. Lawyer Mohammed Sablouh told Al Jazeera that about 400 prisoners have been on strike for more than two weeks and ambulances enter daily to take them away because their condition is dire. Implementation of the law was suspended on September 10 after an appeal to the Constitutional Council seeking to overturn the law, according to Ahram Online.

A court in Rome sentenced three Egyptian security officials to 10 years over the abduction of Giulio Regeni, according to The Independent. Those convicted are Major Magdi Ibrahim Abdelal Sharif, for whom prosecutors had sought a life sentence, and Colonels Uhsam Helmi and Athar Kamel Mohamed; the fourth defendant, General Tariq Sabir, was acquitted, according to ANSA. Regeni was abducted on 25 January 2016 while researching Egypt’s independent trade unions for his PhD at Cambridge, according to the BBC.

The United States (US) Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume deportations of migrants to countries that are not identified in their removal orders. The court’s three liberal justices dissented, without comment, from the decision to allow the deportations to resume. The court also said it is adding the case to its merits docket and will hear arguments in December.

Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s campaign asked the country’s Federal Supreme Court (STF) to investigate possible US interference in the national electoral process, in an unprecedented move made last Wednesday (September 23, 2026), according to The Hindu. At the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the president said that Brazil does not fit in anyone’s backyard, a message aimed at US pressure. Brazilians vote on October 4, and Lula leads Flávio by five points in first-round polls.

British police said the five men detained near the Fairford air base are UK nationals from London, and all of them were released on bail without immediate charge, according to The Guardian. For the newspaper, the absence of an immediate charge suggests they are not deemed to pose a serious and violent threat. Iran has said that bases used by the US to attack it, including Fairford, were “legitimate targets”. According to The Guardian, the question of whether Iran had a hand in the alleged plot remains open.

An Italian court convicted three Egyptian security officials over the kidnapping of student Giulio Regeni, according to Al Jazeera. On Monday, the three were sentenced to 10 years in prison for aggravated kidnapping and a fourth defendant was acquitted. A judge said Major Magdi Sharif, from Egypt's General Intelligence, police Colonel Hisham Helmy and Colonel Ather Kamal were guilty of the aggravated kidnapping of Regeni, according to Reuters, in a text republished by Internazionale.

Hungary’s parliament suspended Magyar’s immunity, with 139 lawmakers voting in favor and none against or abstaining, according to TASS. Magyar faces the accusation of taking a man’s mobile phone during a nightclub altercation in June 2024 and throwing it into the Danube River. He himself asked for his immunity to be suspended, saying he is ready to cooperate with investigators and has nothing to fear.

Israel’s Supreme Court unanimously annulled the government’s ban on Red Cross visits to Palestinian security prisoners, according to the Times of Israel. The court said that the state failed to present a legal foundation for its blanket policy, in place since October 7, 2023, according to the Times of Israel. The government’s central justification for the ban was that Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza were being denied Red Cross visits, a justification that no longer applies, according to the Times of Israel.

At least 30 men have been executed in eastern Libya since late August after being sentenced to death in secretive military trials, and at least 50 others remain at imminent risk of execution. According to Amnesty International, forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar resumed executions on 23 August, the first in Libya since 2010, in trials marked by torture.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled on Friday, September 25, 2026, that Ohio and Tennessee can regulate Kalshi’s sports-related event contracts under their gambling laws, according to CNBC. Reuters also reported the ruling.

Colombia extradited one of the main leaders of a dissident faction of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to the United States on Friday, September 25, 2026, according to three police sources cited by Reuters, in a report republished by G1. The man extradited is Geovany Andrés Rojas, known by the alias “Araña”, described as the leader of the Comandos de Frontera, a faction of the Coordinadora Nacional del Ejército Bolivariano. It is the first extradition of a high-ranking commander of an armed group under President Abelardo De La Espriella; his case had been suspended under Gustavo Petro’s government, amid its peace negotiations. The transfer began at La Picota prison in Bogotá, in an operation by Colombia’s judicial police and Interpol, and the procedure includes flying him to the United States aboard a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) aircraft, according to reports cited by ColombiaOne.

The Supreme Court allowed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Friday, September 25, 2026, to use the SAVE programme — Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements — to check the citizenship of voters on state rolls, Al Jazeera reported. The emergency order stands until a final ruling and lets states adopt the system, which is voluntary, according to the Associated Press.

A U.S. appeals court in Washington upheld the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic on Friday, 25 September 2026, keeping the Department of Defense’s finding that the artificial intelligence (AI) company poses a national security risk, CNBC reports. In a 2-1 ruling, the court rejected Anthropic’s challenge and found the Department of Defense had ample support for treating the use of Claude as a threat, The Hill reports.