The U.S. Senate passed a bill on Thursday in support of the Uyghur Muslim minority in China. The bill would require the president to make a report to Congress regarding China’s crackdown on the Uyghurs and other minorities in the region. The report would identify persons responsible for the crackdown, whether they are officials with [...]
The UK government announced that all British and Irish citizens born in Northern Ireland would be treated as EU citizens for immigration purposes, making the official rule change in Parliament on Thursday. This rule change follows the case of an Irish woman, Emma DeSouza, who applied for a residence card for her US-born husband in [...]
The French National Assembly passed a law Wednesday that will strengthen the national position against online hate speech by fining social media companies if they do not delete certain content such as terrorism, child pornography and genocide denial within one to 24 hours of its posting. Additionally, this law strengthens the ability of the French [...]
A federal judge entered an order on Monday allowing various banks to release confidential information to the Warmbier family about several frozen North Korean accounts to aid the family with collecting on a $500 million judgment for the 2017 death of Otto Warmbier. North Korea was found liable in December 2018 for the torture, hostage-taking, [...]
Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council ordered courts on Sunday to release all protesters jailed since anti–government demonstrations erupted last October. The Council cited Article 38 of the Constitution, which guarantees the right to protest so long as demonstrations do not involve acts “contrary to the law” or otherwise violate the Constitution. This statement comes days after [...]
Colombian airline Avianca filed for bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York on Sunday, following financial difficulty during the COVID-19 pandemic. The second largest airline in Latin America, Avianca has been grounded since March amidst regulations set out by the president, resulting in more than 20,000 jobs under threat of furloughed leave. The company [...]
A report published by Amnesty International on Monday found that the Syrian government, supported by Russia, committed a series of war crimes in northwest Syria in 2019 and 2020. The report alleges the government committed the attacks from the air and ground, which struck residential areas and vital infrastructure. The findings are based on interviews of [...]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) released a statement Friday condemning a German court’s challenge of the ECJ’s judicial supremacy. “In order to ensure that EU law is applied uniformly,” says the statement, “the Court of Justice alone—which was created for that purpose by the Member States—has jurisdiction to rule that an act of an [...]
A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the US military can construct a base in Okinawa, Japan, despite environmental activists’ concerns over the base’s construction threatening the local dugong population. The activists filed suit under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). A panel of federal judges heard the case. The panel concluded that the base’s [...]
US President Donald Trump vetoed senate Joint Resolution 68, commonly known as the Iran War Powers resolution, on Wednesday. The resolution came in response to the assassination of Qassem Soleimani in early January. In a statement released by the White House, Trump called the resolution “insulting” and characterized it as a political attack by Congressional [...]
