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By AFP The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor on Wednesday asked judges to grant an arrest warrant for Myanmar junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing over alleged crimes against humanity committed against Rohingya Muslims. Mr Karim Khan’s request to the court’s Hague-based judges is the first application for an arrest warrant against a high-level […]
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Wednesday he would seek an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s military leader Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity in the alleged persecution of the Rohingya, a mainly Muslim minority. Myanmar’s ruling junta said in a statement to Reuters that the country was not a member […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Kazakhstan on Wednesday for a two-day trip aimed at shoring up ties with his Central Asian ally as tensions mount over the Ukraine war. Kazakhstan is a member of the Moscow-led CSTO security alliance but has expressed concern about the almost three-year conflict, which Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has […]
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday applied for an arrest warrant for Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing. He said that there were reasonable grounds to believe that the junta leader was involved in crimes against the Rohingya Muslim minority. A panel of three judges will now decide whether to issue […]
Special counsel John L. “Jack” Smith sought Monday to dismiss the two federal criminal cases against Donald Trump, citing internal Justice Department opinions about prosecutions of a president. Smith asked judges in Washington and Florida to dismiss the cases, pointing to the Office of Legal Counsel’s new determination that the case had to be dropped […]
Thailand has released the set of principles that will form the official draft Platform Economy Act (PEA) for a public hearing period that runs until December 15, 2024. The PEA is likely to be positioned as a general or overarching law for digital intermediary services and digital platform service businesses. In January 2024, an early, […]
SANTAQUIN, Utah (ABC4) — The family of a man who has been missing since Friday, Nov. 22, is asking the public for help finding him. Tom Galloway, 30, was last seen on Friday, just after 7 a.m. when he left for work. Other than a brief conversation with his brothers around noon that day, his […]
ByteDance-owned TikTok chief executive officer Shou Zi Chew has sought input on US matters from Elon Musk, a close adviser to president-elect Donald Trump, the Wall Street Journal reported citing people familiar with the matter. Chew initiated messages with the Tesla chief executive in recent weeks and asked for his opinions on topics ranging from […]
U.S. Sen. Steve Daines on Thursday introduced a bill with bipartisan support that seeks to reauthorize a program to address billions in overdue maintenance at national parks, increase program funding from the federal government, and seeks to increase the amount of public donations supporting those projects. The act would for keep the program running for […]
The daughters of civil rights leader Malcolm X have filed a $100 million lawsuit against the FBI, CIA, and New York Police Department (NYPD), accusing the agencies of playing a role in the assassination of their father in 1965. The lawsuit, filed on Friday in Manhattan federal court, alleges that these agencies not only knew of […]