“Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court told judges on Tuesday that a suspected Seleka militia leader in the Central African Republic had complete control over a prison where inmates were arbitrarily detained and abused over a decade ago. According to prosecutors, Mahamat Said Abdel Kani ran a prison where suspected supporters of then-President Francois Bozize were beaten and tortured. … Said has denied seven charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. His defence will present their closing argument later this week.” (11/25/25)
“French police arrested four further suspects on Tuesday as part of the investigation into the audacious Louvre jewel heist last month, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said in a statement. The suspects are two men aged 38 and 39 and two women aged 31 and 40, and were being interrogated by police, the statement said.” (11/25/25)
“The two leading candidates in Guinea-Bissau’s presidential election – incumbent Umaro Sissoco Embalo and main challenger Fernando Dias – have both declared victory before the release of official results. Both campaigns had claimed on Monday that their contender exceeded the 50 percent threshold needed to win outright, eliminating the need for a run-off. … There was no immediate comment by the National Electoral Commission, which is expected to announce provisional results on Thursday, regarding the conflicting claims. Twelve candidates competed in Sunday’s poll that saw a turnout of more than 65 percent.” (11/25/25)
“A federal judge ruled that OpenAI needs to turn over all its internal communications with lawyers about why it deleted two massive troves of pirated books from a notorious ‘shadow library’ that the tech company is accused of using to train ChatGPT. Manhattan Federal Court Magistrate Judge Ona Wang ruled Monday that the tech giant’s shifting reasons for deleting the data tanked any argument that those reasons could be protected by attorney-client privilege. ‘OpenAI continues to assert that it did not willfully infringe Class Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works. A jury is entitled to know the basis for OpenAI’s purported good faith,’ Wang wrote in her 28-page decision. … The judge is overseeing a massive consolidated class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, which includes the Daily News, affiliated newspapers at Tribune Publishing and MediaNews Group and other news outlets that are accusing the technology giant of copyright infringement.” (11/25/25)
“China launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft on Tuesday to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China’s space station. The Shenzhou 22 will be used sometime in 2026 by the three astronauts who docked on the Tiangong space station on Nov. 1. … The Shenzhou 20 spacecraft – the damaged one, which for now remains in space – will be brought down to Earth later and assessed, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The space program determined it didn’t meet safety standards for transporting the astronauts.” (11/25/25)
“The U.S. government imposed visa restrictions on Fritz Alphonse Jean, a member of Haiti’s transitional presidential council, accusing him of supporting gangs and other criminal organizations in a move expected to deepen the country’s political instability. The U.S. did not name the person it sanctioned in its announcement late Monday, but Jean confirmed it was him, telling The Associated Press on Tuesday that he rejected those accusations. The U.S. also accused Jean of obstructing Haiti’s fight against ‘terrorist gangs,’ without details. Gangs control 90% of Haiti’s capital and swaths of territory in the center of the country, where they extort businesses, kill civilians and fight for territory, using military-grade weaponry. Haiti is due to hold elections by Feb. 7, when the nine-member council is supposed to step down.” (11/25/25)
“Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Monday evening, amid ongoing military raids and settler violence in the occupied territory. The Palestinian health ministry announced the death of Abdelraouf Ishtiyeh, 30, from Tell near Nablus, whose body is still being held by Israeli authorities. Israeli troops besieged Ishtiyeh’s house in Nablus Monday night, triggering armed clashes. Troops reportedly fired anti-tank missiles at the building where Ishtiyeh was hiding, resulting in his death. He had been wanted since May 2024 after Israel said he was behind a car ramming that killed two Israeli soldiers.” (11/25/25)
“An Australian senator who is campaigning for a national burqa ban was barred Tuesday from Parliament for the rest of the year for wearing the Muslim garment in the chamber. Pauline Hanson, the 71-year-old leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation minor party, was accused of performing a disrespectful stunt on Monday when she walked into the Senate shrouded in the head-to-ankle garment to protest fellow senators’ refusal to consider her bill that would ban the burqa and other full-face coverings in public places. Senators suspended her for the rest of the day on Monday. In the absence of an apology, they passed a censure motion Tuesday that carried one of the harshest penalties against a senator in recent decades.” (11/25/25)
“Iowa Democrat Christina Bohannan has built her campaign for Congress around the image of a hard-working, middle-class advocate who understands what it’s like ‘to struggle to put food on the table.’ However, her real estate portfolio and financial disclosures paint a very different picture — one of expensive homes, a Florida waterfront condo and lucrative stock investments that place Bohannan among the wealthy elite she claims to want to fight against in Congress. ‘You know, I know what it’s like to work so hard and to, to still struggle to put food on the table,’ Bohannan previously told a crowd at the Iowa State Fair. Throughout her multiple campaigns … she has touted her history of growing up in a trailer park and being forced to choose ‘between putting groceries in the cart and filling prescription drugs.'” (11/25/25)
“Lawmakers in the European Parliament voted on Tuesday to pursue legal action against the European Commission for spiking a highly disputed bill to regulate the licensing of patents. After a lawsuit was filed earlier this month to the Court of Justice of the European Union, lawmakers today voted with 334 MEPs in favor of pursuing the legal action. There were 294 votes against and 11 abstentions. … The case can now move ahead to the EU’s top court in Luxembourg, which will have to decide whether the Commission was within its rights to scrap the proposal or whether it overstepped its powers.” (11/25/25)
