Within 24 hours, three cabinet members tasked with coordinating the UK’s leave from the European Union known as Brexit have resigned. The first, Secretary of State David Davis, who submitted his resignation late Sunday, was shortly followed by a junior secretary at the Department for Exiting the EU, Steve Baker. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson announced his [...]
The European Parliament voted down a highly-debated copyright bill Thursday, which would have made sweeping changes to the copyright regulation of online media. It was a bill big firms such as Google and Facebook argued would stifle creativity and sharing, as it aimed to regulate these companies’ monitoring more closely for infringements. License holders — publishers, [...]
France’s Constitutional Council ruled Friday that a farmer who aided migrants crossing France’s border with Italy was immune from prosecution because he operated on the principle of “fraternity” during the course of his actions. According to the council, this is the first time they have “held that fraternity is a principle with constitutional value,” citing [...]
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency said Thursday it needs more time to accurately identify the parents of detained immigrant children. The response follows a June 26 court order in the US District Court for the Southern District of California . ICE wrote that they would be using DNA testing to identify the parents [...]
According to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) form first obtained by NBC News Tuesday, detained immigrant parents, even those with pending asylum claims, must choose between returning to their country with or without their children. The form is to be read to the parents in a language that they know and has them sign for either [...]
The former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, was arrested on Tuesday due to his alleged involvement in theft from a state-owned development company called 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) . Razak is accused of stealing $700 million dollars from the fund, and the United States Department of Justice alleges that a total of $4.5 billion has been [...]
The European Commission launched an infringement procedure on Monday to protect Poland’s Supreme Court from a judiciary law that would force one-third of its judges to retire. The law drops the retirement age from 70 to 65, which will require 27 out of 72 judges to retire, including “the First President of the Supreme Court, [...]
The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee on Wednesday called for for the Human Rights Council (HRC) to support an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into alleged human rights abuses against the Rohingya community. “I strongly recommend the persons allegedly responsible for the violations of international human rights law and [...]
The American Institute for International Steel (AIIS) filed a lawsuit in the US Court of International Trade on Wednesday against the United States and US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan against steel tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump in March. The lawsuit seeks an order from the court enjoining the US from [...]
Judge Dana Sabraw of the US District Court for the Southern District of California issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) practice of separating detained immigrant families. The court found “the extraordinary measure of a class-wide injunction warranted” since “the facts set forth before the court portray reactive governance — [...]
