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Wife of Spain's PM Charged With Embezzlement and Influence Peddling After Two-Year Probe

A Madrid judge has formally charged Begoña Gómez with four crimes after a two-year investigation into her use of government connections for private gain, comparing the conduct emerging from presidential palaces to "absolutist regimes."

WorldApr 13

Earth Got 16% Brighter at Night Over Nine Years, but the Real Story Is Where It Went Dark

A Nature study analyzing over a million daily NASA satellite images found that brightening and dimming are intensifying simultaneously worldwide -- with war, energy policy, and oil drilling cycles all visible from space.

WorldApr 13

Operation Southern Spear Has Killed at Least 168 People. One Drug Seizure Has Been Confirmed.

Since September 2025, the US military has destroyed 49 alleged drug boats in the Pacific and Caribbean, killing at least 168 people. SOUTHCOM calls them "Designated Terrorist Organizations." Only one strike has produced a confirmed drug seizure. Congress has not authorized the campaign.

WorldApr 13

Iran Executed at Least 1,639 People in 2025, the Most Since 1989

A joint report by Iran Human Rights and ECPM documents a 68% surge in executions over 2024, with nearly half for drug offenses. The regime executed an average of more than four people per day while concealing 93% of hangings from official media.

WorldApr 13

French Court Convicts Lafarge of Financing ISIS, Sentences Former CEO to Six Years

A Paris court found cement maker Lafarge and eight former executives guilty of paying millions to ISIS and al-Nusra to keep a Syrian factory running during the civil war. Former CEO Bruno Lafont was ordered immediately imprisoned in France's first corporate terrorism financing conviction.

WorldApr 13

Nigerian Air Force Kills at Least 100 Civilians in Strike on Jilli Market

Military jets struck a packed weekly market in Jilli village on April 11 while targeting Boko Haram. Amnesty International confirmed the death toll; the Air Force says it hit "identified terrorist locations" and made no mention of civilian casualties.

WorldApr 13

Cuba's Diaz-Canel Warns of Guerrilla War in First US TV Interview Since Castro

In his first American television interview -- the first by a Cuban leader since Fidel Castro in 1959 -- President Miguel Diaz-Canel told NBC he would die before stepping down and warned the U.S. of guerrilla warfare if Cuba is attacked.

WorldApr 13

Benin Votes for President With Only Two Candidates and 37% Turnout After Opposition Barred From Ballot

Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni is heavily favored to win a seven-year term in an election where restrictive sponsorship rules excluded the main opposition party and voter participation continued to decline.

WorldApr 13

Magyar's Tisza Party Wins Supermajority in Hungary, Ending Orbán's 16-Year Rule

Péter Magyar's centre-right Tisza party won 138 of 199 seats on record 79.5% turnout, giving him the constitutional supermajority to dismantle Orbán's system. The longtime prime minister conceded defeat, calling the result 'painful but clear.'

WorldApr 12

Trump Attacks NATO After Rutte Meeting: 'They Won't Be There If We Need Them Again'

President Trump posted a blistering attack on NATO hours after meeting Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House, demanding allies commit naval forces to the Strait of Hormuz within days and signaling the administration may relocate US bases away from uncooperative members.

WorldApr 12

London Police Arrest 523 at Palestine Action Protest Under Ban a Court Ruled Unlawful

Metropolitan Police arrested 523 people aged 18 to 87 at a sit-in at Trafalgar Square, continuing to enforce a terrorism designation that the High Court ruled unlawful two months ago.

WorldApr 12

Iraq Elects Nizar Amedi President After Five-Month Constitutional Deadlock

Iraq's parliament elected Patriotic Union of Kurdistan nominee Nizar Amedi as the country's sixth post-Saddam president with 227 votes, ending a five-month impasse -- but the Kurdistan Democratic Party boycotted the vote and refuses to recognize the result.