Philippine Vice-President to be arrested for threats against President MarcosMs Duterte had already already impeached by the House of Representatives in May on the same charges, as well as over alleged financial anomalies. A conviction could derail her plans to seek the presidency in 2028, when President Marcos’s six-year term ends. A lawyer of the vice-president, who has denied the charges, suggested she will post bail to avoid detention while facing trial by the Quezon City Regional Trial Court.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/philippine-vice-president-arrested-threats-against-president-marcosSri Lanka ex-president's son arrested on graft chargesNamal Rajapaksa, who is a lawmaker representing the opposition Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna, was arrested following more than five hours of questioning by Sri Lanka's key anti-graft body, the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption. The order to remand him was issued by Colombo Chief Magistrate Asanga S. Bodaragama.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sri-lanka-ex-presidents-son-arrested-graft-charges-2026-09-04/2 trapped workers rescued from hydropower tunnel 9 days after Nepal floodsWhen the mountain gave way above the Nepali power plant where Sah worked, he said he chose to stay and help instead of fleeing. "I was in the control room in the tunnel. Normally there are four to six people there, but there could have been 40 to 45 people that day," the 30-year-old told army officials from a stretcher, an oxygen mask strapped to his face, in a video shared by the Nepalese authorities.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nepal-rescue-tunnel-flood-9.7332145Women journalists who have accused Delhi police of assault to move high court In a video released by 4PM News Network, Shaheen alleged that she and Nafisa were beaten and subjected to mental harassment at the police station. She displayed injury marks on Nafisa’s body and alleged that the assault became more severe after police personnel asked their names and learnt that they were Muslims.
https://sabrangindia.in/two-women-journalists-allege-police-assault-after-questioning-delhi-cm-say-attack-intensified-after-police-heard-they-were-muslim/https://archive.ph/ukWrbArgentina’s Milei escalates Falklands dispute, seizing on Trump comments and oil tensionsArgentine President Javier Milei escalated his country’s dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands on Thursday, vowing new measures to halt an oil project near the British-controlled archipelago and praising U.S. President Donald Trump for saying Washington could reconsider its neutral stance on the islands’ sovereignty. Milei cast Trump’s comments as proof that his close relationship with the U.S. president — criticized by political opponents as overly deferential — was paying dividends.
https://apnews.com/article/argentina-president-donald-trump-javier-milei-falkland-islands-britain-e84d99c99cfb1cb1ad232be8e3ea6c8aCampesino Collective Demands Justice After Land Title RevokedCarvajal belongs to the “Ojo de Agua Las 3 Raíces” campesino council, which brings together 41 families in a 470-hectare land estate with the same name located in the Padre Pedro Chien municipality of Bolívar state. The rural organization denounced that their collective land title was arbitrarily revoked in 2024 but local authorities did not give any notice for more than two years. In recent weeks, the campesino families have denounced intimidation and attempts at eviction.
https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/campesino-collective-demands-justice-after-land-title-revoked/Alvaro Uribe To Face Questioning Over Paramilitary TiesColombia’s former president is expected to respond to allegations linking him to killings committed by paramilitary forces. On Friday, former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is due to appear at a questioning hearing before the Attorney General’s Office, where he is expected to respond to questions about his links to killings committed by paramilitary forces between 1995 and 1998, a period when he served as governor of Antioquia.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/alvaro-uribe-to-face-questioning-over-paramilitary-ties/Mexican ruling-party lawmaker found dead with gunshot wound, a year before electionsZenyazen Escobar, a federal legislator representing the coastal state — home to some of the country’s oil complexes — was found dead inside his car with at least one gunshot wound. “The investigation file is being compiled,” state Attorney General Lisbeth Jimenez told reporters, without providing further details. The secretary general of Veracruz, Ricardo Ahued, said the lawmaker's vehicle showed no signs of violence.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexican-ruling-party-lawmaker-found-dead-with-gunshot-wound-year-before-2026-09-04/Tunisia’s top court upholds conviction of opposition figures, activistsAmong those sentenced in the mass trial was Said Ferjani, a senior official and former MP from the opposition party Ennahda, which led the first Tunisian government after the fall of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s regime during the Arab Spring. Ferjani was initially sentenced to 13 years, which was reduced to 10 years on appeal.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/3/tunisias-top-court-upholds-conviction-of-opposition-figures-activistshttps://archive.ph/zhYY6Tanzanian opposition leader ordered to defend himself in treason trialTanzania’s High Court has ruled that Chadema party chairman Tundu Lissu must present a formal defense in his treason trial, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of death if he is convicted. The ruling is not a conviction. At this stage of a criminal trial, the court is only deciding whether the prosecution has produced evidence that, left unanswered, could support a conviction. It is not a final determination of guilt, nor a detailed assessment of witness credibility.
https://breakthroughnews.org/2026/09/01/tanzanian-opposition-leader-ordered-to-defend-himself-in-treason-trial/