Yevheniia Khoroshun contributed to this report. Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Tuesday that pregnant women in Gaza face disproportionate harm from the Israel-Gaza conflict. The report said that women in Palestine face “extraordinary challenges” in finding safe places to give birth even when they face a high-risk delivery due to food insecurity. HRW traces complications [...]
The US Supreme Court upheld the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” on Friday. This confirms that the application TikTok will be banned on Sunday. The act makes it unlawful for any entity to distribute a “foreign adversary controlled application” in the US. It explicitly singles out ByteDance Ltd, the parent company of TikTok. [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled Thursday that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) did not have legal authority when it reinstated net neutrality rules last May, striking a blow to President Joe Biden’s telecommunications policy. Net neutrality is the idea that internet service providers (ISPs) must provide access to all content [...]
The Polish government introduced a draft law aiming to allow civil unions under Polish law on Friday. The law would reverse Poland’s current ban on civil partnerships and failure to recognize civil partnerships from other nations. The bill would recognize the civil partnership between two unmarried adults upon registration. Along with the legal recognition, civil [...]
Democratic US Senator Ron Wyden on Thursday introduced the Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act, a bill aimed at reforming the United States Supreme Court. The proposed legislation seeks to expand the court from nine to fifteen justices among other reforms. Beyond adding six new justices to the Court, Senator Wyden’s proposal seeks to implement new [...]
A local Kentucky sheriff has been taken into custody on murder charges following the fatal shooting of District Judge Kevin Mullins on Thursday. Judge Mullins, who had served for fifteen years, was shot several times in his chambers. A preliminary investigation by Kentucky police identified Letcher County Sheriff Shawn M. Stines as the primary suspect. [...]
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on Friday revoked the validation of six British diplomats. The FSB claimed the diplomats were coordinating “the implementation of subversive policy.” The FSB stated that they “received documentary materials confirming London’s coordination of the escalation of the international military situation.” The agency singled out the UK as the “main” unit [...]
Hungary on Friday confirmed its intention to send migrants to Brussels in protest of European Union (EU) rules on accepting asylum seekers. Rétvári Bence, Hungary’s deputy minister of interior, held a press conference flanked by buses to affirm the country’s plan to provide free fare for migrants on the bus route to the EU’s capital. [...]
The union representing workers from Canada’s two largest rail companies filed a court challenge against a labour board order requiring them to return to work. The order was issued after the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference entered into a lockout last week. Workers at Canadian National (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) briefly began a [...]
A new report by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) released on Monday found that Canada’s Bill C-26 will allow the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), Canada’s national cryptology agency which provides the Canadian government with technology security as well as foreign signals intelligence, to escape transparency requirements. Bill C-26 grants the CSE additional powers [...]
