International Workers’ Day rallies from Asia to Europe and the United States blended traditional labor demands with antiwar messages and complaints about rising energy costs.
The spending bill reopens the Department of Homeland Security but leaves ICE and parts of CBP unfunded, ending a months-long fight over immigration enforcement.
The measure restores routine funding to TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard and the Secret Service while leaving immigration enforcement money on a separate legislative track.
A Seoul appeals court raised former South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol’s prison term to seven years over obstruction of justice and abuse-of-power convictions tied to his conduct around martial law.
Thailand’s corrections department said former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra will be released early from prison on May 11, citing his age and the short time remaining on his sentence.
A 6-3 ruling found that race played an impermissible role in drawing Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District, narrowing a major route for challenging minority vote dilution.
Federal prosecutors charged David Morens with concealing records tied to Covid-era communications, bringing a long-running dispute over pandemic handling and lab-leak debates back into court.
A gunman opened fire at a social security office and later at a courthouse in central Athens on April 28, 2026, leaving several people hurt before police detained him near Patras.
The former FBI director was charged over a social-media post tied to Donald Trump, as the Justice Department once again moved against a longtime presidential critic on April 28, 2026.
Tibetans living outside China cast ballots in a worldwide election for the Central Tibetan Administration, a vote that carries added weight as the community looks beyond the Dalai Lama’s eventual succession.
Syria has opened its first public trial of officials linked to Bashar Assad, with Atef Najib appearing in court while Assad and his brother were charged in absentia.