Turkey said Friday it is seeking an international arrest warrant from Interpol for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as part of a domestic criminal case over Israel‘s interception and detention of dozens of activists attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged Gaza Strip in May.
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Haftbefehl gegen Netanjahu wegen Ăberfall auf Gaza-Flottille
Ankara. Im Rahmen von Ermittlungen zu Gewalt gegen Aktivisten einer Gaza-Hilfsflotte hat die TĂŒrkei einen internationalen Haftbefehl gegen den israelischen Regierungschef Benjamin Netanjahu erlassen. Justizminister Akın GĂŒrlek teilte am Freitag im Onlinedienst X mit, Netanjahu und ein weiterer israelischer StaatsbĂŒrger wĂŒrden der »Verbrechen gegen die Menschheit, des Völkermords, der schweren Freiheitsberaubung« sowie weiterer Vergehen beschuldigt, darunter Folter.
Israel/OPT: Siege of Palestinian homes in Qusra marks relentless escalation in state-backed settler violence
(August 14, 2026)
âThe three families under siege have been threatened, harassed and attacked by Israeli settlers from nearby outposts for several months. They have been confined to their homes since Sunday 9 August, are running out of food, and lack access to basic necessities, including running water. The homes targeted in these attacks are located in Area B of the West Bank, supposedly under Palestinian administrative control and Israeli military control, according to the classification of the Oslo Accords. Yet Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances trying to deliver food and water to the homes were also attacked by settlers. Despite these violent attacks, Israeli forces allowed the settlers to remain close proximity to the Palestinian familiesâ homes.
âFor far too long, the world has ignored the immense, unfathomable suffering of Palestinians being uprooted and erased from land they have inhabited for generations. The international community must stop treating such incidents as âisolatedâ and instead hold Israel accountable.â
Trumpâs DOJ says it will withdraw subpoenas targeting NY Times reporters
The Justice Department opened a leak investigation and took aggressive steps to identify the officials who spoke with The Times. Some officials were asked to turn over their cell phones at the White House, sources familiar with the matter told CNN.
Some of the subpoenas â which are court orders compelling a person to testify â were delivered by FBI agents at the reportersâ homes.
The Times publicized the legal threat right away and aggressively fought back, calling the subpoenas a âbad faith effort to harass and intimidateâ the news media.
The Justice Department said it was not targeting the reporters; it was pursuing the leakers of classified information.
Exclusive: ICC prosecutors shelved RSF arrest warrant as Sudan atrocities mounted
The International Criminal Court‘s prosecutorâs office has not applied for a single arrest warrant over crimes committed in Sudan‘s Darfur region since the country‘s devastating war began in April 2023, despite more than three years of investigation and repeated public assurances that charges were imminent, Middle East Eye can reveal.
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For more than a year after Khan‘s leave of absence in May 2025, the prosecution did not provide any explanation to the pretrial chamber regarding the late application.
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The deputy prosecutor, who is currently in charge of the Darfur investigation, has yet to provide a timeline for any other arrest warrants, MEE understands.
US removes sanctions on UN Palestinian rights expert after judge cites free speech
The Trump administration imposed the sanctions after accusing Albanese of âbiased and malicious activitiesâ and âlawfare,â including recommending that the International Criminal Court issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant.
âIt is undisputed that her recommendations have no binding effect on the ICCâs actions â they are nothing more than her opinion,â Leon said in his decision.
US federal judge blocks sanctions against UN expert on Palestine
(May 15, 2026)
Judge Leon made preliminary findings that President Donald Trumpâs administration likely violated Albaneseâs right to free speech by imposing sanctions against her. In his 26-page decision, he discussed the applicability of the First Amendment to Albanese, including an extensive discussion of the significance of free expression. He wrote:
Albanese has done nothing more than speak! It is undisputed that her recommendations have no binding effect on the ICCâs actionsâthey are nothing more than her opinion⊠Finally, protecting the freedom of speech is âalwaysâ in the public interest⊠Indeed, the âproudest boastâ of our First Amendment is that it protects the freedom to express even âthe thought that we hate.â Enough said.
Judge overturns US sanctions on UN official who called for war crimes prosecutions over Gaza
(May 13, 2026)
Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed the sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur for Palestinian human rights, last July under an executive order President Donald Trump signed authorizing such actions against people âdirectly engagedâ in the International Criminal Courtâs investigations related to alleged atrocities in Gaza.
However, in a ruling Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said the administrationâs sanctions against Albanese violate the First Amendment because theyâre based solely on her encouraging the ICC to investigate and prosecute.
In Dead of Night, Johnson TriesâBut Failsâto Ram Through Domestic Spying Bill for Trump
In the 228-197 final vote, a total of four DemocratsâReps. Jared Golden of Maine, Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington, and Thomas R. Suozzi of New Yorkâjoined with all but 25 Republicans who voted to pass a 10-day extension. Twenty GOP members voted against it, while five did not vote.
Ahead of the votesâincluding on separate versions asking for a 5-year and then 18-month extensions of Section 702âopponents of any clean extension, including Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), said anyone opposed to warrantless spying on Americans must vote no.
Alexander brothersâ judge orders US to withhold Epstein-linked material during sex trafficking trial
(February 3, 2026)
â[T]he United States must not release any document or material from the purported âEpstein Filesâ that mentions or references any of the above-listed Defendants [Alon, Oren and Tal Alexander], explicitly or implicitly, before a jury verdict has been rendered in this case,â Caproniâs order says.
Caproni ordered U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton to sign off on having notified U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi about her order, as well as the U.S. deputy attorney general and U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
ICE arrests Columbia student, Shipman says agents lied to enter University-owned residence
(February 26, 2026)
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Elmina âEllieâ Aghayeva, GS â26, in a Columbia Residential building Thursday morning, after acting University President Claire Shipman, CC â86, SIPA â94, announced that agents had lied in order to enter a residential building and detain an affiliate.
A person with knowledge of the situation told Spectator that ICE agents impersonated New York Police Department officers in order to enter Aghayevaâs dorm.
Aghayevaâs arrest marks the fourth of a Columbia affiliate amid the federal governmentâs immigration crackdown, which has continued to target international students at the University.
House Democrats demand DHS scrap memo allowing warrantless entry of homes
(February 3, 2026)
House Democrats on Monday demanded the Department of Homeland Security rescind a controversial directive allowing federal immigration agents to forcibly enter peopleâs homes without a signed warrant from a judge, following the leak of a memorandum detailing the agencyâs broad assertion of law enforcement authority.
Lawmakers say the memo took âa battering ramâ to the Constitution and the Fourth Amendmentâs protections against unreasonable search and seizure â and pushed back on the Trump administrationâs claims that non-U.S. citizens are not subject to those rights.
WATCH: Schumer speaks after Democrats vote against DHS funding bill, making shutdown likely
In a list of demands they sent to the White House last week, Schumer and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York said DHS officers should not be able to enter private property without a judicial warrant and that warrant procedures and standards should be improved. They have said they want an end to „roving patrols“ of agents who are targeting people in the streets and in their homes.
DHS shutdown imminent after Senate Democrats block Homeland Security bill
âDemocrats have been very clear. We will not support an extension of the status quo, a status quo that permits masked secret police to barge into peopleâs homes without warrants, no guardrails, zero oversight from independent authorities,â Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said before the vote.
We Were Top Homeland Security Lawyers. You Canât Wish Away the Fourth Amendment.
(February 2, 2026)
A warrant signed by a judge who is independent of the executive branch is a constitutional safeguard that separates legitimate law enforcement from arbitrary government power. This bedrock principle applies with equal â if not greater â force when the government is merely enforcing a civil immigration order.
Today the Department of Homeland Security seeks to justify forcible home entries on the basis of administrative warrants â warrants issued by the executive, not the judicial branch.
DHS defends ICE actions after San Antonio home arrest attempt sparks backlash
(February 8, 2026)
The agency did not specify what type of warrant officers were carrying. Judicial warrants are approved by judges, while administrative warrants are issued by immigration authorities; civil rights advocates note that administrative warrants generally do not permit officers to enter a home without consent or emergency conditions.
Court extends restrictions on Netanyahu adviser Urich in Bild leak probe affair
(January 25, 2026)
The Central District Court in Lod on Sunday extended restrictive conditions on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuâs senior adviser, Yonatan Urich, for an additional 60 days, accepting a police appeal in the ongoing investigation into the leak of classified intelligence to the German newspaper Bild.
ICE chief ordered to appear in court to explain why detainees have been denied due process
The chief federal judge in Minnesota says the Trump administration has failed to comply with orders to hold hearings for detained immigrants and ordered the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to appear before him Friday to explain why he shouldn‘t be held in contempt.
In an order dated Monday, Chief Judge Patrick J. Schiltz said Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, must appear personally in court. Schlitz took the administration to task over its handling of bond hearings for immigrants it has detained.
Judge orders acting ICE director to appear in federal court in Minneapolis
âThis Court has been extremely patient with respondents, even though respondents decided to send thousands of agents to Minnesota to detain aliens without making any provision for dealing with the hundreds of habeas petitions and other lawsuits that were sure to result,â Schiltz continued.
The judge wrote that ICE and Homeland Security officials âhave continually assured the Court that they recognize their obligation to comply with Court orders, and that they have taken steps to ensure that those orders will be honored going forward. Unfortunately, though, the violations continue.â
Judge Restricts Immigration Agentsâ Actions Toward Minnesota Protesters
Judge Kate M. Menendez ordered agents not to retaliate against people âengaging in peaceful and unobstructive protest activity,â and not to use pepper spray or other âcrowd dispersal toolsâ in retaliation for protected speech. The judge also said agents could not stop or detain protesters in vehicles who were not âforcibly obstructing or interfering withâ agents.
The ruling, which granted a preliminary injunction, stems from a lawsuit brought by activists who said agents had violated their rights. The suit was filed before an immigration agent shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.
Minnesota, Twin Cities sue Trump administration to halt federal immigration surge
January 12, 2026)
Minnesota and the Twin Cities are suing the Trump administration to stop its latest immigration enforcement surge, alleging that the increased federal actions are unconstitutional and a violation of federal law.
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Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court left in place a ruling by a federal judge in Chicago that bars the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops in Illinois.
Judge demands response after lawmakers accuse DOJ of dragging feet with Epstein files
âThe Department of Justice is openly defying the law by refusing to release the full Epstein files. Millions of files are being kept from the public,â Khanna said in a statement last week. âThe DOJ has failed to make the necessary redactions to protect survivors while removing records after publication without any explanation.â
Massie accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of âegregiously violating the requirements of the Epstein Files Transparency Act,â the law passed by Congress late last year to facilitate the release of the materials.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer â the Barack Obama appointee in charge of Maxwellâs case â gave the Justice Department until Friday to respond to the lawmakersâ claims.
Trump zieht Nationalgarde aus US-StÀdten ab
Kurz vor Weihnachten hatte Trump vor dem Obersten Gerichtshof der USA bei seinen PlÀnen eines Nationalgarde-Einsatzes in Chicago eine Niederlage kassiert. Der Oberste Gerichtshof der USA wies einen entsprechenden Eilantrag ab.
Trump says heâs withdrawing National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland
His announcement comes after the US Supreme Court last week rejected his request to allow him to deploy the guard to Chicago to protect ICE agents as part of the administrationâs ongoing immigration crackdown.
In major loss for Trump, Supreme Court blocks National Guard deployment to Chicago
âAt this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois,â the court said in its unsigned order.
The decision, which came over dissents from conservative Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, was a substantial setback and appeared almost certain to jeopardize deployments of the National Guard in other cities as well.
1988 CONVENTION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF UNLAWFUL ACTS AGAINST THE SAFETY OF MARITIME NAVIGATION
ARTICLE 3
1. Any person commits an offence if that person unlawfully and intentionally:
(a) seizes or exercises control over a ship by force or threat thereof or any other form of intimidation; or
(b) performs an act of violence against a person on board a ship if that act is likely to endanger the safe navigation of that ship; or
(c) destroys a ship or causes damage to a ship or to its cargo which is likely to endanger the safe navigation of that ship; or
(d) places or causes to be placed on a ship, by any means whatsoever, a device or
substance which is likely to destroy that ship, or cause damage to that ship or its cargo which endangers or is likely to endanger the safe navigation of that ship; or
(e) destroys or seriously damages maritime navigational facilities or seriously interferes with their operation, if any such act is likely to endanger the safe navigation of a ship; or
(f) communicates information which he knows to be false, thereby endangering the safe navigation of a ship; or
(g) injures or kills any person, in connection with the commission or the attempted
commission of any of the offences set forth in subparagraphs (a) to (f).
2. Any person also commits an offence if that person:
(a) attempts to commit any of the offences set forth in paragraph 1; or
(b) abets the commission of any of the offences set forth in paragraph 1 perpetrated by any person or is otherwise an accomplice of a person who commits such an offence; or
(c) threatens, with or without a condition, as is provided for under national law, aimed at compelling a physical or juridical person to do or refrain from doing any act, to commit any of the offences set forth in paragraph I, subparagraphs (b), (c) and (e), if that threat is likely to endanger the safe navigation of the ship in question.
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ARTICLE 7
1. Upon being satisfied that the circumstances so warrant, any State Party in the territory of which the offender or the alleged offender is present shall, in accordance with its law, take him into custody or take other measures to ensure his presence for such time as is necessary to enable any criminal or extradition proceedings to be instituted.
2. Such State shall immediately make a preliminary inquiry into the facts, in accordance with its own legislation.
Judge says Ghislaine Maxwell court documents can be released as part of the push for information on Jeffrey Epstein
The ruling from Judge Paul Engelmayer opens the door for the department to publicly release evidence it had gathered against Maxwell, an associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The trove of documents, which will be redacted to protect victimsâ identities and other identifiable information, includes grand jury transcripts, financial records, travel documents, and notes from victim interviews obtained during the investigations.
It is not yet clear when the department plans to make the documents public or how much of the material will be new.
Epstein files: Judge releases grand jury materials from the Ghislaine Maxwell case
A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday ordered the unsealing of grand jury materials related to the prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite and longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein, who is currently in prison after being convicted in 2021 of sex trafficking a minor and other counts.
Judge Paul Engelmayer made the order in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan at the request of the Department of Justice, citing the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Congress passed almost unanimously last month, per CNBC.
US official says shooting suspect was vetted by intel agencies and âclean on all checksâ
At the time, the CIA would have done its own vetting of him through a variety of databases, including the National Counterterrorism Center database, to see if he had any known ties to terrorist groups. The CIA did its own vetting before he started working with them and kept the identities of those they worked with secret, the official said.
NCTC would have vetted him again during Operation Allies Welcome in 2021 for any ties to terrorism before he was allowed into the US. He was clean then as well and did not show any ties to terror organizations, per the senior US official.
Afghan national charged in Guard ambush shooting drove across US to carry out attack, officials say
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, declined to provide a motive for Wednesday afternoonâs brazen act of violence which occurred just blocks from the White House. The presence of troops in the nationâs capital and other cities around the country has become a political flashpoint.
National Guard shooting suspect served in CIA counterterrorism unit, group says
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan man who allegedly shot two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, previously served in one of Afghanistan‘s elite counterterrorism units, according to AfghanEvac, a nonprofit run by U.S. veterans and others who served in Afghanistan.
The unit was operated by the CIA with direct U.S. intelligence and military support, according to AfghanEvac.
Attentat auf Nationalgarde: Wie Trump den Angriff instrumentalisiert
Washingtons BĂŒrgermeisterin und auch die örtliche Polizei haben sich immer wieder gegen den Einsatz der Nationalgarde in ihrer Stadt ausgesprochen. Der Bundesdistrikt Washington D.C. hatte sogar eine Klage gegen die Trump-Regierung eingereicht – und recht bekommen. Eine Bundesrichterin entschied vor etwa einer Woche, dass der immer wieder verlĂ€ngerte Einsatz der Nationalgarde in der Stadt illegal sei.
Von dieser Entscheidung zeigt sich der US-PrĂ€sident aber unbeeindruckt. Nach den SchĂŒssen auf die beiden Nationalgardisten fĂŒhlt er sich im Recht. Seinen Pentagon-Chef hat er jetzt sogar angewiesen, noch weitere 500 Nationalgardisten in die Hauptstadt zu schicken.
High Court orders government to explain why itâs not launching Oct. 7 state inquiry
The court demanded to know why the government is not exercising its authority to establish such a commission, which could âexamine in an independent, professional, and impartial mannerâ the events surrounding the October 7 attacks.
Preliminary orders switch the burden of proof from the petitioner, in this case several liberal watchdog groups, to the respondent â the government â and indicate that the court is taking the petitions very seriously.
The government has until January 4 to respond.
TĂŒrkei: Gericht erlĂ€sst Haftbefehl gegen Benjamin Netanjahu
Bereits im November 2024 hatte ein Gremium von Richtern des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs in Den Haag Haftbefehle gegen den israelischen Premierminister Benjamin Netanjahu und seinen frĂŒheren Verteidigungsminister Yoav Gallant wegen Kriegsverbrechen im Gazastreifen erlassen. Die USA und Israel erkennen den IStGH nicht an.
Turkey issues arrest warrant against Netanyahu for ‚genocide‘ in Gaza
The Istanbul prosecutor‘s office said in a statement that a total of 37 suspects were targeted by the arrest warrants, without providing a full list.
They include Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and army chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir.
Turkey has accused the officials of „genocide and crimes against humanity“ that Israel has „perpetrated systematically“ in Gaza.