The French Senate voted Monday against a government-sponsored bill that would add a climate clause to the French constitution. President Emmanuel Macron had promised a referendum to include environmental protection in the heart of French constitutional principles, but the bill needed to pass both the National Assembly and the Senate. During the Senate debate, Minister [...]

The UK’s Court of Appeal on Monday quashed the convictions of three black men who were arrested for robbery in the late 1970s, where the court relied on the testimony of a knowingly corrupt police officer. The hearing in front of the Royal Court of Justice sought to overturn the convictions of Courtney Harriot, Paul [...]

Ever Given, the cargo ship that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly six days in March, will be released from its impoundment in the Great Bitter Lake following a settlement agreement between the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) and the ship’s owners and insurers. The Ever Given has been held at the lake in the Canal’s [...]

A South African court has agreed to hear ex-president Jacob Zuma’s challenge to a 15-month jail term for failing to attend a corruption hearing, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported. The Constitutional Court ruled on June 29 that Zuma will be sentenced to 15 months imprisonment after he was found to be in contempt of [...]

TikTok is up and running again in Pakistan, just days after the Pakistan Telecoms Authority (PTA) suspended public access to the popular social media app over complaints from citizens about alleged immoral and obscene content. On Friday, the Sindh High Court revoked the suspension but ordered the PTA to expedite hearings over complaints about the [...]

The Vatican charged 10 persons with financial crimes on Saturday, including an Italian cardinal. The charges follow an inquiry by the Vatican Gendarmerie. The charges center around the Vatican Secretariat of State’s investment in Raffaele Mincione’s Athena Capital Global Opportunities Fund. Mincione, who allegedly used fund money for personal investments, received charges of “embezzlement, fraud, [...]

The US Department of the Treasury on Friday removed sanctions on three Iranians, but stated that the move did not reflect a change in its sanctions policy toward Iran. The department announced that it had removed Behzad Ferdows, Mehrzad Ferdows and Mohammad Reza Dezfulian from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Specially Designated Nationals [...]

A new United Kingdom-funded task force was formed Monday to investigate human rights violations in Myanmar that have occurred since Myanmar’s February coup. The project, called Myanmar Witness, was created “to independently collect, preserve, process, verify, investigate and review incidents of possible interferences with human rights.” The initiative is funded through the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth [...]

Ethiopia’s federal government announced a ceasefire in Tigray on Friday. The Ethiopian National Defense Force and the Provisional Tigray Administration left Tigray’s capital as part of the ceasefire, pausing eight months of war. The Tigray Defense Force, a guerrilla warfare group, has not agreed to the government’s ceasefire. Rosemary DiCarlo, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political [...]

Northern Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service (PPS) announced on Friday that the prosecution of Soldier F, the only British soldier to be charged in connection with the Bloody Sunday killings of 1972, will be discontinued. It was also announced that planned proceedings against a second soldier, Soldier B, will not be commenced. The announcement comes after [...]