An Egyptian appeals court has upheld a six-month prison sentence for a fierce government critic who was convicted of defamation ByThe Associated Press October 7, 2023, 12:29 PM CAIRO — An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday upheld a six-month prison sentence for a fierce government critic who was convicted of defamation last month in a … Read more
Activists in Guatemala are blocking roads in surging demonstrations to support President-elect Bernardo Arévalo ByThe Associated Press October 6, 2023, 12:42 PM Protestors block the Inter American highway to demand the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo Porras and prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche in Totonicapan, Guatemala, early Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. For the fifth consecutive day people … Read more
Guatemala’s highest court has ruled that prosecutors can suspend President-elect Bernardo Arévalo’s political party, though legal experts had questioned the move ByThe Associated Press October 6, 2023, 12:42 PM Protestors block the Inter American highway to demand the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo Porras and prosecutor Rafael Curruchiche in Totonicapan, Guatemala, early Friday, Oct. 6, … Read more
ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s main opposition said Thursday it will present new evidence to support its court challenge seeking to overturn this year’s presidential election, saying it can show the declared winner provided faked academic credentials to authorities. President Bola Tinubu forged a diploma from an American university that he presented to Nigeria’s election commission … Read more
Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX may have lost at least $8 billion in customer money, but he “didn’t intend to defraud anyone,” his defense team said Wednesday during the opening arguments of his highly anticipated trial. Though legal experts had long speculated that Bankman-Fried, or SBF for short, would take a “blame the lawyers” approach, … Read more
A Congolese military court has sentenced a colonel to death after soldiers fired upon a crowd of protesters earlier this year ByJUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press FILE – Arrested members of the Wazalendo sect are sat and lined up in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Aug. 30, 2023. A military court on Monday, Oct. … Read more
Former President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media while arriving for the second day of his civil fraud trial in New York on Oct. 3, 2023. Kena Betancur | AFP | Getty Images Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he plans to testify at the New York trial accusing him of … Read more
In the weeks after Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto exchange began to crumble last November, he chose to ignore the most basic piece of legal advice: Say nothing, or risk incriminating yourself. He took media interviews. He appeared on podcasts. He tweeted incessantly. He started his own Substack. He promised to testify in front of Congress, … Read more
LGBTQ+ groups are hailing the 60-day jail sentence a court in Switzerland gave to a writer and commentator for deriding a journalist as a “fat lesbian” and other critical remarks French-Swiss far-right writer Alain Soral, center, leaves the courthouse after his appeal trial for homophobia against a journalist in Lausanne, Switzerland, Wednesday, September 27, 2023. … Read more
Policemen have shoved and wrestled with justices of Guatemala’s top electoral tribunal, as prosecutors sought to seize the tally sheets of votes from the August presidential elections ByThe Associated Press September 30, 2023, 12:51 PM A cordon of police agents stand guard during a raid by the Attorney General’s office of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, … Read more