On July 25, 2025, the criminal section of the Cour de cassation, the highest-ranking court in France, annulled the arrest warrant, which had been issued against former President of Syria Bashar al-Assad for the criminal offence of chemical attacks, which allegedly took place  2013 and killed more than one thousand people.

The 2026 International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup, set to run from June 11 to July 19, 2026, will be the most expansive tournament in FIFA’s history, expanding from thirty-two to forty-eight teams and spanning 104 matches across sixteen host cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States (U.S.).

On June 25, 2025, Ukraine and the Council of Europe (CoE) signed an agreement in Strasbourg to establish a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (“Tribunal”).

On July 21, 2025, José Adolfo “Fito” Macías Villamar, principal leader of the transnational gang Los Choneros and an Ecuadoran national, was arraigned at Brooklyn’s federal court in New York City. This action comes a day after his extradition to the Eastern District of New York from Ecuador.

On July 22, 2025, Greek authorities detained infamous Moldovan oligarch, Vladimir Plahotniuc, and another unnamed Moldovan citizen in response to Plahotniuc’s placement on Interpol’s international wanted list.

On July 9, 2025, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its long-awaited judgment in the interstate case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia (applications nos. 8019/16, 43800/14, 28525/20, and 11055/22).

The Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute (ASP or the Assembly) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) met in a Special Session on July 7-9, 2025 in New York, United States, to review the jurisdiction of the ICC over the crime of aggression, which establishes individual criminal responsibility for the planning, preparation, initiation, or execution of a manifest act of aggression.

On June 10, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against a plethora of individuals and entities that finance the militant wing of Hamas, which the United States government has designated as a terrorist organization.

On July 18, 2025, the United States (U.S.) and Venezuela swapped prisoners. The U.S. sent more than 250 Venezuelans deported in March and flown to a high-security prison in El Salvador in exchange for ten U.S. citizens and permanent residents imprisoned in Venezuela.

On July 11, 2025, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) released a communique resulting from the July 6-8 meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica, under the chairmanship of Dr. Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica.