Australia on Tuesday expelled Iran’s ambassador after accusing Tehran of directing two antisemitic arson attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the decision was taken in response to state-sponsored terrorism on Australian soil. According to the statement from the Prime Minister’s Office, the attacks included an October 2024 firebombing of a kosher [...]

US President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to enable the prosecution of those who burn the American flag. This order means potential tension with a landmark US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruling from 1989, which classed flag burning as expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment. The order characterized flag burning as “a [...]

China’s Ministry of Natural Resources released a report Monday, contending that US “freedom of navigation operations” (FON) in the South China Sea have “no legal basis” under international law. The report, authored by the China Institute for Marine Affairs, aims to provide a legal framework for Beijing’s long-standing opposition to US naval patrols. China’s report [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Egypt on Tuesday to end its controversial “rotation” practice, which allows authorities to arbitrarily extend prison sentences beyond their maximum term. Rotation is typically used against perceived political opponents, such as activists, protestors, lawyers, and journalists, and involves charging a prisoner with a new offense when they are [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Monday issued a statement urging Hong Kong authorities to ensure that journalists can work freely, and called for the renewal of a Bloomberg reporter’s work visa. Bloomberg reporter Rebecca Wilkins announced that “after six years of reporting in Hong Kong,” her visa was denied. The Foreign Correspondents’ Club [...]

UN experts on Monday called for the immediate and unconditional release of a Malian civil society activist who has been detained since November 2023 despite a court issuing an order for his release. Clément Mamadou Dembélé was originally jailed for allegedly making death threats against the transitional president and his family. In April, a court [...]

A US federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Tuesday that saw President Donald Trump suing every federal judge in Maryland over orders blocking the immediate deportation of migrants contesting removal. Trump filed the suit on Monday in response to an order written by Maryland Chief District Judge George L. Russell III in May. The order [...]

In a press release on Monday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) denounced the killing of five members of the press in an Israeli airstrike at Southern Gaza’s Nasser Hospital. The CPJ called for the international community to prevent further unlawful attacks on journalists with impunity. CPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah condemned the military action. [...]

X Corp. and X.AI LLC filed a federal lawsuit on Monday alleging that Apple and OpenAI’s exclusive ChatGPT integration violates federal competition law. Plaintiffs accused the two companies of violating antitrust laws by establishing effective monopolies in their respective markets. The lawsuit stated that Apple currently owns a 65 percent US market share for smartphones, [...]

Amnesty International on Tuesday condemned the public caning of two men in Indonesia’s Aceh province after they were convicted of same-sex relations under Islamic criminal law. Aceh, located on the northern tip of Sumatra island, is Indonesia’s only province with special autonomy to enforce qanun jinayat, a set of bylaws introduced in 2015 that criminalize [...]