The High Court of Namibia Thursday ruled against recognizing same-sex marriages. The judge agreed with the arguments put forward by the applicants, but he held that the High Court is bound by precedent. The Supreme Court had previously held in the case of Chairperson of the Immigration Selection Board v. Frank that same-sex relationships are [...]

Guinea’s junta leader Mamadi Doumbouya Saturday announced the establishment of an 81-member National Council of Transition (CNT) to serve as the country’s parliament and legislate during the transition leading up to elections. The transition began on September 5, 2021, when former President Alpha Condé was ousted by a coup d’etat.  In a decree read out [...]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy Saturday issued a decree imposing sanctions on Austrian architecture firm Coop Himmelb(L)au and six of its representatives, including its founder Wolf D. Prix. The firm has been designing an opera and ballet theatre in Sevastopol, the largest city in Crimea. The procedure for imposing sanctions on the architecture firm was commenced [...]

Google Friday filed a motion to dismiss the antitrust complaint that was filed against the company by a coalition of state attorneys. The motion denied the allegation that Google colluded with Facebook to manipulate programmatic ad markets in a collaborative project codenamed “Jedi Blue.” The suit claimed that the project intended to limit ad header [...]

A Paris court Friday convicted Claude Gueant, former chief of staff to French former President Nicolas Sarkozy, for the misuse of public funds to conduct public opinion polls. The trial, which began in October, also resulted in the conviction of three other Sarkozy associates, including former advisor Patrick Buisson and cabinet director Emmanuelle Mignon. As [...]

The US Department of Justice issued a statement Thursday explaining its charges of “conspiracy to commit aircraft piracy” against four Belarusian government officials for diverting a Ryanair flight in May 2021 allegedly for arresting a dissident Belarusian journalist who was on board the plane. The United States has claimed jurisdiction in the case as there [...]

The US Department of Justice Friday charged a Texas man for allegedly posting on Craigslist a message containing a threat to injure and kill election-related government officials. On Friday morning, the FBI arrested Chad Stark from Leander, Texas. As per the indictment, on January 5, 2021, Stark posted a message on Craigslist with the subject [...]

The Supreme Court Friday granted review of Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta, a case that will help determine the scope of a ruling from two years ago regarding major crimes committed in Indian country. In 2020 the justices decided McGirt v. Oklahoma, which held that a large portion of eastern Oklahoma, in fact remains an Native American [...]

The chief of Frontex Friday called for the European Union to provide clearer rules on striking a balance between the human rights of asylum seekers and greater border protection. Frontex Border and Coastguard Agency which engages in border control, including preventing human trafficking and smuggling, were scrutinized for violating human rights. Cases under review include Lithuania, [...]

The National Council of Austria Thursday passed a bill making Covid-19 vaccination mandatory for all adults in the country. If approved by the upper house and signed into law by the President, the bill will come into force on February 1, making Austria the first European country to introduce a vaccine mandate. The Austrian government first announced [...]