Takayoshi Tsuda, the Chief of Police of Shizuoka Prefecture, publicly apologized to Iwao Hakamata on live TV on Monday for fabricating evidence and coercing him during a murder investigation. This misconduct led to Hakamata’s wrongful arrest and 48 years on death row. Speaking to Hakamata and his family, local media reports Chief Tsuda as stating: [...]

The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed the implementation of “return hubs” in third countries to combat irregular migration, in a letter to Commission members on Thursday. In the letter, she emphasizes the Italy-Albania protocol as an example of how the hubs may work in practice. The protocol is a migration [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a stay barring constitutional challenges against a controversial Texas law criminalizing “vote-harvesting” until after the November 5 presidential election. The court suspended an injunction from the lower court, allowing the ballot harvesting provision in Senate Bill 1 (SB-1) to remain in effect for the presidential [...]

Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly announced on Monday the expulsion of six Indian consular officials and diplomats, following a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigation into crimes allegedly connected to the Indian government. Pursuant to the results of their investigation, the RCMP found “Indian diplomats and consular officials based in Canada leveraged their [...]

The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by X (formerly Twitter) after a District of Columbia court denied its challenge to a nondisclosure order preventing the company from sharing details with Donald Trump of a Department of Justice warrant against the former president’s activities on the social media platform. In the summary [...]

François Legault, premier of the largely French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec, has called for the implementation of French-style “waiting zones” to address the growing number of asylum seekers entering Canada, according to local media reports. Legault appears to have taken inspiration from asylum waiting zones in France, which function as temporary hotel-style accommodations where asylum [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report released Wednesday raised concerns over the forcible recruitment of children into a youth group associated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). HRW interviewed multiple families whose children were taken by the Revolutionary Youth Movement of Syria, or Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger. The report revealed that in the vast majority [...]

A group of bilingual municipalities within Quebec have sought a temporary suspension against provisions of a law mandating the use of the French language in all municipal proceedings, while proceeding with a larger challenge against Bill 96, Quebec’s controversial new language law. Local media reports that Julius Grey, the attorney representing the municipalities, requested the [...]

Two Ontario First Nations bands — Oneida of the Thames and the Sandy Lake First Nation — have filed a class-action lawsuit against the Ontario provincial government alleging discriminatory underfunding of fire protection services. Per a CBC report, the lack of proper funding is cited by the bands as being responsible for the disproportionately high [...]

Building Industry and Land Development Association (BILD), a Canadian advocacy organization, identified a widening gap between the demand for homes within the Greater Toronto Area and housing starts, with a drop from 2,428 housing start applications in 2021 to 1,225 in 2024, in its report issued on Monday. The report reviewed the number of build [...]