European Union officials, including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa, reaffirmed the EU’s support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday in response to US sanctions on four ICC judges. Slovenia, home to one of the sanctioned judges, has further asked Brussels to use the EU’s Extraterritoriality (Blocking) [...]

New Zealand’s Parliament on Thursday suspended three Māori lawmakers for staging a protest that included performing the haka, a traditional Māori dance, in opposition to a controversial bill. Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, who are the co-leaders of the Te Pāti Māori party, were suspended without pay for 21 days following a vote by a [...]

The attorneys general of New York, California, Massachusetts and New Jersey on Thursday asked the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove some of the restrictions on access to mifepristone, the so-called “abortion pill.” The four states have requested that the FDA remove mifepristone from the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) program, “including [...]

Amnesty International on Friday urged Israeli authorities to allow the Madleen, the lead vessel of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, to proceed safely and without interference toward the besieged Gaza Strip. This appeal comes as reports surface that the Israeli Navy may intercept the humanitarian flotilla. “Israeli authorities must immediately lift their unlawful blockade on Gaza, [...]

The US Department of State imposed sanctions on Thursday on four individuals currently serving as judges on the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their involvement with the ICC’s investigations into the US and Israel. These sanctions were imposed pursuant to Executive Order No. 14,203, entitled “Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court,” which President Donald [...]

US President Donald Trump issued a presidential memorandum to his attorney general on Wednesday, directing an investigation into executive actions taken towards the end of former President Joe Biden’s term. Specifically, the memorandum directed an investigation into whether certain individuals in the White House conspired to cover up Biden’s “cognitive decline” while he was in [...]

The United States on Wednesday vetoed a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution that called for an “immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire” in Gaza, citing concerns that the measure failed to link a truce to the release of hostages held by Hamas. The veto blocked the resolution despite support from 14 of the Council’s 15 [...]

US President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Wednesday implementing a nearly full travel ban on nationals from a dozen countries, severely restricting potential entry into the United States. The proclamation is based on an executive order issued on Trump’s first day in office that laid the foundation for the administration to enact extensive immigration controls. [...]

A group of UN human rights experts on Thursday urged the Belarusian government to stop targeting independent trade unions and comply with international labor standards. The experts—a group of five Special Rapporteurs—called on Belarus to cooperate with the UN and the International Labour Organization (ILO) to protect the rights of trade union leaders and members, [...]

In an advisory opinion published Thursday, the advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) said Hungary infringed European law by restricting access to LGBTQ+ content. Tamara Ćapeta stated that Hungary has deviated from the EU’s values and recommended the CJEU find that the nation infringed Article 2 of the Treaty [...]