US President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he will appoint a special envoy to Greenland, prompting responses from Denmark and Greenland leaders expressing worry over potential US expansionist aims and the nations’ territorial integrity. Trump made the unexpected announcement on a social media post, appointing Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry to the role. “Jeff understands how [...]

Italy’s Competition Authority (AGCM) announced on Monday that it has fined Apple €98.6 million ($116 million) for imposing unfair conditions on third-party app developers through the App Tracking Transparency (ATT) policy. This decision centers on Apple’s requirement, beginning in April 2021, that developers display an ATT consent prompt before tracking user data across apps. AGCM [...]

UN experts warned that a recent approval bill in Peru that eliminates the concept of gender from legislation and public policy frameworks could significantly undermine the country’s human rights protections and violate its international legal obligations. According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the bill removes references to gender from Peru’s [...]

The Supreme Court, in its shadow docket order in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, stayed a district court ruling that had temporarily barred federal immigration agents in the Los Angeles area from conducting roving patrol stops based upon a handful of proxy factors—including “peaking Spanish or English with an accent.” A separate concurrence by Justice Brett [...]

The Peoples National Assembly (lower house of Parliament) in Algeria began debating a draft law on Saturday seeking to criminalize French colonization. This legislative move is a step in advancing the Algiers Declaration, which was adopted following a conference on colonialism held on November 30 and December 1. This law focuses on French colonial rule [...]

A Pakistani court on Saturday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to 17 years imprisonment for retaining and selling state gifts, marking the latest conviction against them. A special court in Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail, where Khan is incarcerated, delivered the verdict. The case, ‘Toshakhana 2,’ relates to a 2021 visit [...]

Cyclone Ditwah exposed Sri Lanka’s catastrophic lack of preparedness. After the first red alerts predicting very heavy rainfall were issued on the night of November 25, Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s public Facebook posts the following day focused on meetings with film producers and Road Development Authority engineers. It was only on the morning [...]

Amnesty International on Thursday urged all states to prevent the Portuguese-flagged Holger G vessel, carrying munition components bound for Israel, from docking at their ports, hindering the supply of arms to Israel. Having departed from India on November 16, the cargo is destined for Israel’s biggest arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems, and its subsidiary IMI Systems. [...]

The US Department of State revoked visas for senior Honduran electoral officials on Friday, tying the sanctions-like immigration action to allegations that the officials impeded Honduras’ post-election vote count and thereby “undermin democracy in Honduras,” according to the Department’s public statement. In a warning that framed the dispute as a regional security issue, the Department [...]