The UN Security Council (UNSC) Sunday resolved by a procedural vote to convene a special emergency session of the 193-member UN General Assembly to consider action regarding Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The session will be held on Monday. Earlier on Friday, Russia vetoed the US-led draft UNSC resolution which sought to end the crisis in [...]

Ukraine instituted proceedings against Russia Saturday before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in Hague in light of Russia’s ongoing attack on Ukraine. According to Ukraine, the case concerns “a dispute . . . relating to the interpretation, application and fulfilment of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.” [...]

The European Center for Digital Rights (noyb) filed a complaint on Friday against a German payment platform for processing sensitive personal sexual and health information without customer consent, allegedly violating the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Giropay is an integrated payment processing service that many retailers use to process customer payment. A giropay customer [...]

The US House Committee on Oversight and Reform expanded its investigation Friday into former President Donald Trump’s removal, loss, and destruction of presidential records. Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney sent a letter to National Archivist David Ferriero requesting additional information relating to Trump’s handling of those records. In the letter, Maloney stated: The National Archives [...]

The Supreme Court of India dismissed a petition Friday seeking the deployment of central forces, including paramilitary forces, in the upcoming local elections in West Bengal state, alleging apprehensions of large-scale violence and electoral fraud. Two leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), an opposition party in the state, filed this petition against the decision [...]

In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US, the UK, and the EU Friday placed sanctions on Russia President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The US Treasury announced the sanctions just one day after it targeted the Russian financial system’s core infrastructure by sanctioning Russia’s largest financial institutions, restricting its ability to [...]

The Russian Federation Friday vetoed a UN Security Council (UNSC) vote to adopt a draft resolution that would end the crisis in Ukraine. The draft was submitted by Albania and the US, and garnered eleven yes votes, with abstentions from China, India, and the UAE. The draft would have deplored the Russian Federation’s invasion of [...]

US President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Jackson of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit as an associate justice to the Supreme Court on Friday. If her nomination is confirmed by the Senate, Jackson would be the first black woman to serve as a justice of the highest court of [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Thursday allowed the registration of the trademark “Trump Too Small,” finding that the US Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) refusal to register the trademark violated the applicant’s First Amendment right to freedom of speech. The applicant, Steve Elster, had applied to register the trademark with [...]

The Idaho House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would provide confidentiality to suppliers and manufacturers of lethal injection drugs. House Bill 658 is intended to provide “legal protection from discovery or disclosure for certain persons and entities to carry out the death penalty.” The bill would provide confidentiality to any individual or entity [...]