Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to be placed under house arrest as he stands trial for allegedly plotting a coup — a move that could heighten tensions with the Trump administration in Washington. Prosecutors accused him of conspiring with dozens of his allies to overturn his 2022 electoral loss. According…
Donald Trump has accused former president Barack Obama of orchestrating a ‘coup’ and conspiring against him in 2016. The allegation was amplified by Trump sharing a viral AI-generated video depicting Obama in jail. This comes as the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, claims to have proof that Obama weaponized intelligence agencies against Trump, alleging…
Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was taken back into custody on Thursday after a Seoul court approved a detention warrant in connection with a widening investigation into his controversial attempt to declare martial law late last year. The Seoul Central District Court granted the warrant at the request of the special counsel’s office,…
A South Korean court rejected on Wednesday a request to issue an arrest warrant for former President Yoon Suk Yeol related to an investigation into his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, his lawyers said. South Korea’s special prosecutor had asked the court on Tuesday to issue an arrest warrant for Yoon as an investigation…
Representative Image (AI-generated) A South Korean court handed two men jail terms Wednesday for their role in a January riot which saw supporters of impeached ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol attack a court building.Protesters stormed the Seoul Western District Court in January this year after a judge extended the detention of Yoon — South Korea’s first…
Bangladesh’s former President Mohammad Abdul Hamid boarded a Thai Airways flight from the Dhaka international airport at 3am and left the country as most Bangladeshis were in a deep sleep. As the interim government woke up and found what had happened, it suspended and transferred officials and constituted a high-level probe. Former president Hamid was…
The Colombian government said on Saturday that it had granted asylum to Ricardo Martinelli, a former president of Panama who had been sheltering for more than a year in the Nicaraguan Embassy in Panama City to evade a prison sentence for money laundering. Colombia’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it had granted Mr….
Former Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello was arrested on Friday in the northeastern city of Maceio after a Supreme Court justice rejected his challenges against a previous conviction and ordered him to start serving jail time. Collor’s lawyer, Marcelo Bessa, said he was arrested at 4:00 a.m. local time (0700 GMT) while traveling to…
Former President Moon Jae-in of South Korea was indicted on a bribery charge on Thursday, becoming the latest ex-leader to face a criminal trial in a country where subjecting former leaders to criminal investigations has become a recurring pattern. Mr. Moon, who left office after his five-year term ended in 2022, faces the corruption charge…
Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, was arrested on Tuesday in Manila, after the International Criminal Court issued a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity in his war on drugs in which, human rights groups say, tens of thousands of Filipinos were summarily executed. He was taken into custody at the airport…