(Photo via Dr. Ondřej Havelka) WASHINGTON – Abraham Teklu Lemma, 54, a former information technology contractor at the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the National Reconnaissance Office, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit espionage on behalf of the government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. “For more than two years, Lemma exploited a position of trust to provide highly c

The U.N. leader died in a plane crash in 1961. Many suspect foul play, but a lot of information still remains secret. Dag Hammarskjöld, the secretary general of the United Nations, in London in the mid-1950s. (Photo: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images) For a long time, the 1961 plane crash that killed the U.N. secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld has been a mystery: a nighttime catastrophe in Cold War Africa, unexplained and unexplainable. In recent years, United Nations investi

The outpost was established in mid-October on land managed by KKL-JNF, between Kibbutz Kfar Aza and Nahal Oz. Israeli settlers from the Nahala movement. (photo credit: The Nahala Movement) The Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL-JNF) and police are preparing to evacuate an unauthorized settler outpost on Friday, Ynet reported. The outpost was established by settlers from the Nahala movement in Simhoni Forest near the Gaza border. Police officers and KKL-JNF rep

Move announced in social media post brings immigration hardliner into top White House role U.S. President Donald Trump has named Stephen Miller his new chief of staff, replacing Susie Wiles as his top political adviser at the White House. Miller, seen here in the Oval Office on Aug. 6, has been Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy and is the key architect of the administration's immigration crackdown. (Alex Brandon/The Associated Press) Just days after the Republican Part

Lana Nusseibeh, one of the Gulf nation’s top diplomats, has led the effort to deny her country’s role in Sudan. Now it’s complicating her bid to become secretary general of the United Nations. Minister of State Lana Nusseibeh of the United Arab Emirates is a candidate to become the next secretary general of the United Nations. (Photo: Eric Lee/Reuters) The United Arab Emirates hired Colombian mercenaries to fight alongside a notorious Sudanese paramilitary group that has been

The International Criminal Court in The Hague - Credit: ankorlight / DepositPhotos - License: DepositPhotos At least 20 human rights organizations have either ended or drastically reduced their cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague due to sanctions against the court implemented by the United States, Investico and Süddeutsche Zeitung reported after surveying 100 such organizations. The human rights organizations, including large organizations lik

(Photo via The Palestine Chronicle) Gaza has helped people recognize the system they confront and rediscover their capacity to confront it together. And this process seems irreversible. On October 30, Italian workers went on a general strike against the rising cost of living, rearmament, and war. These demands belong together. The public is increasingly aware of the connection between governments’ demands that people accept declining wages and deteriorating public services an

Survivors of attacks on displacement camps in Darfur recall the lives they built, and the violence that forced them to flee. Displaced people ride a an animal-drawn cart, following Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on Zamzam displacement camp, in the town of Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan April 15, 2025 [File: Stringer/Reuters] In a small house in Omdurman, Hassan Saber Jumaa, a senior administrator at the Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan, sat on a simple wooden chair. He scro

Many are challenging their detention using habeas corpus filings only to be arrested again, in violation of court orders Federal agents stand guard as protestors gather outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on 8 January 2026. Photograph: Octavio Jones/AFP/Getty Images Immigrants who have been granted release from detention after winning habeas corpus petitions in court are being re-arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, United States, on September 24, 2026 [Caitlin Ochs/Reuters] The United Nations has closed its political mission in Somalia, ending more than three decades of efforts to help the country rebuild after civil war. The United Nations Transitional Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNTMIS) ceased operations on Saturday after completing a two-year transition requested by the Somali gove