Germany’s health minister, Jens Spahn, on Monday proposed a bill to tackle a shortage of donor organs with a reform that would make everyone a potential organ donor unless they have expressly “opted-out.” The organ donation rates are low in Germany since people currently opt in to the registry voluntarily. Last year, there was a [...]

The US Supreme Court on Monday denied a request from the anti-abortion Center for Medical Progress (CMP) to throw out a lawsuit from Planned Parenthood for breaking the law by secretly recording its employees. The original suit, brought by Planned Parenthood in January 2016, was in response to the release of a series of heavily [...]

Twenty-eight EU member states on Wednesday issued declaration reaffirming that they do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights. The declaration responds to the US President Donald Trump’s proclamation signed on Monday. The proclamation recognizes Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan, which the rest of the international community regards as occupied territory. “The position of the European Union [...]

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Sunday the state had in the past been the main violator of human rights in the country. “As a president, and at the same time as commander of the country’s armed forces, I will never give the order to massacre, to repress the people of Mexico,” said [...]

A South Korean district court in Daejeon on Friday ordered the seizure of Mitsubishi Heavy Industry Ltd. assets in South Korea after the company refused to compensate Koreans following a supreme court decision of a wartime labor case. In its November 2018 ruling, the high court ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to compensate each of the [...]

A jury on Friday acquitted former East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld of all charges in the fatal shooting of unarmed 17-year-old Antwon Rose II. The jury was instructed to consider first-degree murder, third-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter. If convicted, Rosfeld could have been sentenced to life in prison. After three-and-half days hearing [...]

The European Commission called Wednesday for more efforts to ensure adoption of security proposals and fined Google €1.49 billion (USD $1.7 billion) for breaching EU antitrust rules. Market dominance is not illegal under EU antitrust rules. However, dominant companies have a special responsibility not to abuse their powerful market position by restricting competition, either in [...]

Mississippi senators on Tuesday passed, by a vote of 34-15, the final version of a bill that bans abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected. The Mississippi bill says a physician performing an abortion on a pregnant woman before determining if the unborn human individual has a detectable fetal heartbeat, or one who performs [...]

A Guatemala judge on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for the country’s former attorney general and current presidential candidate, Thelma Aldana, on charges of embezzlement, lying and tax fraud. The warrant for Aldana’s arrest, issued by Judge Victor Cruz, “relates to a corruption inquiry involving illegal hiring,” said a Supreme Court official. Aldana has denied [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday in two cases: the Virginia racial gerrymandering case, Virginia House of Delegates v. Bethune-Hill; and a reviewability of agency decision case, Smith v. Berryhill. The Virginia lawsuit was filed in 2014 by residents in 12 different districts in the state. The challengers contended that the legislature, by adopting the 2011 map [...]