The United States once stood as the principal architect of modern international criminal justice, from Nuremberg and Tokyo to the ad hoc tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Today, however, it finds itself in the disquieting position of actively undermining the [...]

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The UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (GHREN) on Monday a condemned the government’s revocation of the credentials of numerous lawyers and notaries. According to testimonies from those affected, there was no notification, legal basis, nor official explanation for the revocation. Many did not know they had been stripped of their licenses until [...]

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US President Donald Trump on Monday issued dual executive orders (EOs) reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah containing ancient cliff dwellings and petroglyphs by nearly three million acres, or about 90 percent each. The first order diminishes the size of Bears Ears National Monument from approximately 1.36 million acres to 121,100 acres, [...]

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A US federal appeals court on Monday reversed a trial judge’s decision to dismiss lawsuits against Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol. This judgment effectively revived hundreds of cases that were filed by families who claim that their children developed autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) after the women took Tylenol during pregnancy.  The 64-page [...]

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A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida sharply criticized President Donald Trump and his attorneys in a ruling on his suit seeking damages from the IRS, saying that it was filed for “an improper purpose—to gain the imprimatur of judicial legitimacy for a ‘settlement’ that had no viable basis [...]

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The European Union will impose age-based restrictions for minors across social media platforms, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Monday. The decision coincides with the publication of a report by a panel of experts convened by von der Leyen last year to develop a “strong and practical” European approach to keep children safe [...]

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A coalition of 12 state attorneys general (AG) on Monday filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block Paramount’s proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. under antitrust concerns, threatening what would be the largest merger in the history of Hollywood. The AGs, led by California AG Rob Bonta, filed the complaint in the Northern District [...]

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The US will launch a diplomatic campaign aimed at dismantling the International Criminal Court, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday. In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, Rubio wrote that the US would work alongside allied governments to take the court apart “brick by brick, if necessary,” using all tools at the [...]

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Sunday called upon Iran and the US to “urgently” resume negotiations as hostilities in and around the Strait of Hormuz intensified, warning that further escalation could have devastating consequences for regional and global security. Guterres said he was “deeply concerned by the serious escalation” and stressed that a return to [...]

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Indonesia’s top anti-corruption prosecutor, Febrie Adriansyah, resigned Saturday after a police raid earlier this week uncovered a safe containing USD$29.6 million in gold bars and foreign currency . Police identified Adriansyah alongside a “private sector figure” identified by the initials DR as suspects in a corruption and money laundering scandal known as the Sumatra Blackout [...]

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