Venezuela’s Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ) suspended the results of the country’s opposition primary elections and disqualified three candidates from running for office, according to a Monday decision on the TSJ website. The decision cites the “unconstitutional and illegal acts of the National Primary Commission” as justifying the suspension of “all the effects of the [...]

Hong Kong’s District Court on Monday sentenced four former student leaders of the University of Hong Kong’s student union to two years in prison over incitement to wound with intent, according to the Hong Kong Free Press. The four former student leaders—Kinson Cheung, Chris Todorovski, Charles Kwok and Anthony Yung—pleaded guilty to the charge on [...]

US District Judge Alia Moses of the Western District of Texas granted a temporary restraining order to Texas and enjoined the federal government from interfering with Texas’s fencing at the U.S.-Mexico border. The suit was brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. As part of Operation Lone Star, the Texas Military Department has deployed concertina [...]

US President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday setting landmark safety and security standards for artificial intelligence (AI). The order will force major AI developers to: share safety test results with the US government; create standardized safety testing; limit biological AI testing; issue best practices for AI fraud prevention; establish AI tools to find [...]

The High Court division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court on Monday commuted the death sentence of seven militants to life imprisonment for their involvement in an attack on a cafe in 2016. This reduction in sentence comes seven years after the defendants were sentenced to death. On July 1, 2016, the seven militants carried out [...]

The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) presented the court’s annual report to the UN General Assembly Monday. The address took place 25 years after the original signing of the Rome Statute and outlined one of the court’s “most active periods since its establishment.” ICC president Judge Piotr Hofmański summarised the evolution of the [...]

Lawyer and human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested in Iran on Sunday after attending the funeral of Armita Geravand, a teenager who died on Saturday after a month in intensive care due to brain injuries allegedly inflicted by Iran’s morality police. Geravand was said to have encountered the morality police when she was found [...]

Around 400 migrants and refugees staged a protest on Sunday at the Acadia port of Rhodes. Protesters attempted to prevent the departure of the ferry “Nissos Chicos” by standing on its ramp. After hours of police negotiation, the boat left without them. They demanded to be taken off the island and either transported to the [...]

Panama’s President Laurentino Cortizo announced on Sunday that he will hold a referendum to determine the fate of a contentious mining contract. Cortizo also said late last week that he was placing a prohibition on any new mining projects in response to protests. In his national address announcing the citizens’ vote, President Cortizo said, “I’ve [...]

A US federal judge reinstated a gag order Sunday against former President Donald Trump amidst his ongoing federal election interference criminal case. Judge Tanya Chutkan originally imposed a gag order on October 16, prohibiting Trump from making any disparaging statements about potential witnesses, the court or prosecutors ahead of the trial date. However, the gag [...]