The Myanmar police filed formal charges against the former head of government, Aung San Suu Kyi, Wednesday for violating import and export laws. She is also being charged for possession of 10 hand-held radios found by the military at her residence in Naypyidaw. The police allege that these communication devices were illegally imported and used [...]
Technology company Smartmatic filed a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News Thursday for broadcasting false claims about the 2020 presidential election. The 276-page complaint alleges that Fox News, following the lead of pro-Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, “joined the conspiracy to defame and disparage Smartmatic and its election technology and software.” The lawsuit [...]
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced on Wednesday the grand jury’s decision to indict Adam Coy—former Columbus Police Officer—for the shooting and subsequent death of Andre Hill. On December 22 Coy and another officer responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle. As he approached the residence where the vehicle was located he came across [...]
The Indian Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice seeking a reply from the instant messaging service WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, Inc., in a petition against sharing of data collected on Unified Payment Interface (UPI) platforms. Similar big tech companies with payment platforms, such as Amazon Pay by Amazon, Inc. and Google Pay by Google, [...]
Lawyers for former US president Donald Trump said Thursday that Trump would not testify at his upcoming impeachment trial, which is slated to begin on February 9. House Impeachment Manager Jamie Raskin had requested that Trump testify earlier on Thursday. The House Impeachment Managers submitted an 80-page memo earlier this week outlining the facts that [...]
US President Joe Biden signed three executive orders Tuesday to reverse the anti-immigration efforts pushed by his predecessor Donald Trump. The first order is aimed at “strengthening integration and inclusion efforts for new Americans.” The second order sets out to create a framework to handle asylum seekers and other migrants. The third order is intended [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday convicted Dominic Ongwen, a former brigade commander of the African rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), of 61 war crimes and crimes against humanity committed from July 2002 to December 2005. Ongwen was accused of 70 counts of these crimes. In a 1,077-page judgment, Trial Chamber IX of the [...]
The UK government presented a bill Thursday that, if passed, will give the Prime Minister the power to give ministers six months’ maternity leave. The Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Bill, introduced to the House of Commons, would enable cabinet ministers to receive full pay during their leave and includes the same provisions for certain [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday dropped an affirmative action lawsuit it had filed against Yale University, accusing the school of discriminating against Asian American and White students in its undergraduate admissions process. In 2016 the DOJ received a complaint from a coalition of Asian-American organizations asserting that Yale discriminates against Asians in [...]
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a press briefing on Tuesday that attacks against civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) may amount to crimes against humanity. The declaration comes after numerous civilian attacks were described in a report by the UN Joint Human Rights Office in [...]
