Independent French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes was arrested in Algeria on May 28, 2024, for allegedly “glorifying terrorism” and “possessing publications for propaganda purposes harmful to national interests.”

On July 9, 2025, President Donald Trump announced that he would impose a 50 percent tariff on all Brazilian imports, partly in retaliation for the Brazilian government’s prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is charged with, inter alia, attempting a coup. 

On Tuesday, July 8, 2025, the District of Puerto Rico charged two American citizens with defrauding thousands of investors of over $650 million by promising excellent returns (as much as 300% over sixteen months)[2] on cryptocurrency and foreign exchange investments while making various security assurances.

On May 19, 2025, France filed a petition to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against the Islamic Republic of Iran (Iran) for the ongoing three-year long detainment of two French nationals, Ms. Cécile Kohler and Mr. Jacques Paris, who were on holiday in Iran when they were detained for alleged spying for the French government on May 8, 2022.

On June 10, 2025, the European Commission updated its list of high-risk jurisdictions that present strategic deficiencies in their national anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regimes.

On July 3, 2025, the United States (U.S.) Supreme Court in an unsigned order permitted the Trump administration to deport eight men who had spent more than one month under guard on a U.S. military base on Djibouti to South Sudan.

United States (U.S.) academic institutions house vast stores of federally funded research in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and biotechnology. 

Since the Belgian colonization of Rwanda, there have been strong ethnic tensions between the two main ethnic groups: the Tutsi and the Hutu. Because Belgium institutionalized the differences between the two groups and favored the Tutsi, the tensions between the two groups escalated, ultimately leading to and resulting in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

On June 12, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced a significant enforcement action against GVA Capital (“GVA”), a California-based venture capital firm, imposing the statutory maximum penalty of $216 million.

On June 24, 2025, Spain’s High Court approved the extradition of William Jofre Alcivar Bautista, also known as “Commander Willy,” to Ecuador with conditions on safety assurances.