The Biden administration Friday announced that the US would continue to “spare no effort” to provide the Ukrainian military with weapons to protect its country. Biden noted that Ukrainian forces have used military weapons sent by the US to “repel the Russian attack on Kyiv, keep the skies of Ukraine contested, and deliver severe blows [...]
The US Departments of State and Treasury Thursday announced sanctions against two more Russian state-owned enterprises. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Alrosa, the world’s largest diamond mining company, which manages 90 percent of Russia’s diamond mining capacity and accounts for nearly 30% percent of global diamond mining. Secretary of State Antony Blinken [...]
The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and the US Drug Enforcement Agency announced Thursday that they had arrested four men accused of international narcotics and weapons trafficking offenses. Three of the men were Thai nationals, but Takeshi Ebisawa is a Japanese national who US authorities allege is a part of [...]
University of Kansas (KU) chemical engineering professor Feng “Franklin” Tao was convicted by a US federal jury Thursday for concealing ties to China while he was doing research funded by the US government at KU. Tao was found guilty on three counts of wire fraud and one count of false statements after he concealed that [...]
Australia Thursday imposed additional financial sanctions and travel bans on 67 Russian individuals for their support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. With the additional sanctions in place, Australia has now sanctioned nearly 600 individuals and entities related to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Australia announced the new sanctions in response to the emergence of evidence of [...]
The US Senate Thursday voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the US Supreme Court. Jackson was confirmed with bipartisan support and received a Senate vote of 53-47. GOP Senators Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski crossed party lines in favor of the nomination. Two weeks ago, Jackson went through four days of hearings [...]
The UN General Assembly voted Thursday to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council over its concern regarding reports of “gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights” and “violations of international humanitarian law” against Ukraine. Russia is now the second country ever to be suspended from the Human Rights Council, following the [...]
The European Commission Wednesday referred Portugal to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for breaching the rules regarding the freedom of movement of workers. The Commission claimed that Portueuse legislation restricts the work of civil engineers, infringing upon their freedom of movement, freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services and breaches [...]
US District Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia Wednesday ordered the US military to stop restricting HIV-positive service members from advancing in their careers. Under the current military policy, individuals with HIV are prohibited from enlisting or being deployed overseas. This policy has faced criticism from a variety of sources. In 2018, [...]
Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced Wednesday that they would not file criminal charges in the death of Amir Locke. Locke, a Black man, was fatally shot by a Minneapolis police SWAT team officer when law enforcement was executing a no-knock search warrant of a downtown apartment in February. [...]
