The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) agreed Tuesday to the UK government’s deal regarding the restoration of Stormont power-sharing in Northern Ireland and the operation of the Windsor Framework. DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson announced the decision on X (formerly Twitter), stating the government will “publish new measures that are designed to restore Northern Ireland’s place [...]

The Saudi Arabian Oversight and Anti-corruption Authority (Nazaha) announced Sunday the arrest of the CEO of the Royal Commission for Al Ula, a historical oasis in the Medina province located in the north-west of the kingdom, Amr bin Saleh Abdulrahman Al Madani, on charges of money laundering and abuse of authority. According to Nazaha, the [...]

Ethiopian Ambassador to Somalia, Muktar Mohamed Ware, issued an apology on Sunday following reports of his possible dismissal over remarks he made regarding the country in an interview with Ethiopian local media. Ware reportedly said that Somalia is a nation “created by colonialists” and that “Somaliland is an independent country which has both de facto [...]

The French government introduced a series of urgent measures on Friday that abandon its plan to reduce state subsidies on agricultural diesel. The measures included emergency solutions aiming to make the life of farmers easier and protect their income, and were announced within “a logic of agricultural independence and food sovereignty, with healthy, safe and [...]

President of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) Síofra O’Leary urged the UK government in a press conference held on Thursday in Strasbourg to abide by the interim measures it has issued against the Rwanda agreement under Rule 39 of the Rules of Court. The ECHR previously issued an urgent interim measures in 2022 [...]

The UK High Court ruled Tuesday that the Secretary of State for the Home Office unlawfully operated a “secret policy” that saw more than 1,500 people who were the victims of modern slavery denied leave to remain. The Claimant, known as XY, was kidnapped and enslaved by a gang in Albania, his home country. The [...]

The Criminal Court of Seine-Saint-Denis has sentenced three police officers implicated in the assault of Theo Luhaka during his 2017 arrest to suspended imprisonment ranging from three months to one year, according to local news outlet BFMTV. The main assailant officer Marc-Antoine Castelain was charged with voluntary violence leading to “a mutilation or permanent infirmity,” [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Alice Jill Edwards told The Guardian on Friday the UK Ministry of Justice’s reforms that would release many people subject to indefinite Imprisonment for Public Protection (IPP) are “welcome but they do not go far enough.” Edwards said many people will not be able to benefit from the reforms as [...]

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said that the transfer of asylum seekers under the UK’s new Rwanda arrangement violates international law in a legal analysis published on Monday. The assessment provides an update to a previous UNHCR analysis of the “Legality and Appropriateness of the Transfer of Asylum-Seekers under the UK-Rwanda arrangement” conducted in [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery Tomoya Obokata warned the UK government that reports of forced labor under the country’s seasonal worker scheme could amount to potential breaches of international law, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) said on Friday. The seasonal worker scheme was introduced in 2019 to remedy labor shortages that [...]