The International Criminal Court prosecutor submitted a Notice of Appeal Monday against the acquittal of former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo and a youth minister on charges of fomenting post-election violence. One of the grounds of appeal identified by the prosecution is that the trial chamber erred by acquitting Gbagbo and Blé Goudé in violation [...]
South Korea’s Trade Minister Yoo Myung-hee said in a press briefing on Wednesday that Seoul will file a complaint at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over Japan’s trade curbs on three key materials used to make smartphones and memory chips. Seoul accused Tokyo of violating WTO’s obligation not to discriminate, changing export procedures for three [...]
The government of Rwanda, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the African Union on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a transit mechanism for evacuating refugees out of Libya. According to a joint statement Tuesday, around 4,700 people are currently being held in detention centers in Libya and urgently need to be [...]
A federal judge in Ohio on Monday denied drug manufacturers and distributors’ request to dismiss the public nuisance claims against them. A public-nuisance claim can be maintained where the facts establish that the “design, manufacturing, marketing or sale of product unreasonably interferes with a right common to the general public.” Factual evidence and statistics, such [...]
California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed into law a bill that requires free legal counsel to be appointed to low-income Californians for any level of legal or physical child custody matters, probate conservatorships and housing-related issues including eviction. The new law requires the California Judicial Council to develop and provide grants, which could be [...]
British lawmakers on Tuesday voted to prevent Prime Minister Boris Johnson from taking the country out of the EU without a formal agreement, pushing Britain to call for a new election. The lawmakers forced Johnson’s hand by voting by 328 to 301 to take control of Parliament away from the government and vote on legislation [...]
The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar said in a report Thursday that the country’s military must stop using sexual and gender-based violence to terrorise and punish ethnic minorities. The Mission concluded that “rape and other sexual violence have been a particularly egregious and recurrent feature of the targeting of the civilian population in [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Monday upheld the conviction of Guinea’s former minister of mines, rejecting his attempt to use redefined rules about public corruption in the US to get a new trial. US citizen Mahmoud Thiam used his official position as minister of mines in 2009 and 2010 to [...]
An investigation revealed Sunday that many records relevant to landmark civil cases in Japan since World War II no longer exist, having been disposed of by courts across the country. The almost 140 cases scrutinized focused on issues such as nationality, freedom of expression, separation of state and religion, expropriation of land for national defense, [...]
A California judge on Thursday reduced a $2 billion jury verdict for a couple against Bayer AG for causing their cancer by the company’s glyphosate-based weed killer, Roundup, to $86.7 million. Alva and Alberta Pilliod allege Roundup causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and that Monsanto (now Bayer) for decades tried to influence scientists and regulators to bury [...]
