The UN Security Council reached a unanimous decision on Monday to adopt a US-drafted resolution imposing a series of fresh new sanctions on North Korea. Among other things, these sanctions include a ban on the supply,...
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Brizillian billionaire Joesley Batista, owner of JBS , and executive Ricardo Saud surrendered to police on Sunday in Sao Paulo for allegedly withholding evidence during their plea bargain negotiation in the corruption case against President Michel Temer...
California filed a lawsuit on Monday against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) , alleging the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is unconstitutional. The complaint alleges that DACA's rescission...
US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy issued an order Monday staying a lower court ruling, allowing enforcement of the Trump administration travel ban against refugees. The Justice Department had filed an emergency application to...
Google appealed its EU antitrust fine on Monday after Intel's partial victory last week against a similar EU sanction. Google's appeal comes two months after the initial antitrust fine by the European Commission for...
A panel of legal experts for the Polish Parliament concluded y Monda that Poland is entitled to seek reparations from Germany over any acts committed by the country during the Second World War. The report[text, PDF, in...
Maldives authorities suspended 56 lawyers on Monday for signing and trying to submit a petition to the Supreme Court calling to uphold the rule of law. The petition cited court violations primarily in cases against opposition politicians. The Department of...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein called the situation in Myanmar "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing" at the opening of the UN Human Rights Council's 36th regular session Monday. During his...
A Guatemalan congressional committee on Sunday recommended that President Jimmy Morales' immunity should be voided so the attorney general and the UN can investigate illegal campaign financing allegations. According to the attorney general and head of the International Commission against...
Here's the international legal news we covered this week: The US Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved $51.35 billion in funding on Thursday for state and foreign appropriations , including $10 million to help fund the UN...
