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The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Friday hailed Malaysia’s positive developments in maternal and infant health care, while questioning child punishment in serious crimes and alternatives to institutionalization for children. Following its review of Malaysia’s latest periodic report, the committee commended the country’s efforts to improve maternal health care and reduce [...]

UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, on Friday expressed grave concern about Israel’s ongoing systemic attacks against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the UN, and the Palestinian people. The remarks come following Israeli forces’  demolition of the UNRWA compound in East [...]

Michigan Attorney General (AG) Dana Nessel on Friday filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against several large oil companies, alleging a decades-long conspiracy to suppress renewable energy competition. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Michigan, names BP, Chevron, Exxon, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute as the defendants. The [...]

Philadelphia filed suit on Thursday against the National Park Service (NPS), which removed educational panels about slavery from Independence National Historical Park. The panels were located at the President’s House Site, and they informed visitors about the slaves owned by George and Martha Washington in Philadelphia, when it was the nation’s capital. The suit alleges [...]

US President Donald Trump, along with Trump-owned LLCs, sued JPMorgan Chase Bank (JPMC) and its CEO, Jamie Dimon, on Thursday. Citing breach of JPMC’s code of conduct, the lawsuit alleges that the bank closed down several accounts that Trump either owned or was a beneficiary of. The complaint states: Plaintiffs suffered considerable financial harm and [...]

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said in a report on Thursday that it urgently needs USD $128 million to sustain its operations in Nigeria from January 2025 to June 2026, after warning that more than a million people in northeastern Nigeria could lose access to emergency food and nutrition aid within weeks as violence [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Thursday that recent reductions in donor support for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria risk undermining the right to health for millions of people worldwide. HRW said donors have pledged US$11.85 billion toward the Global Fund’s US$18 billion target for the 2026–2028 replenishment cycle, leaving a US$6.15 [...]

Denmark and Greenland rejected any suggestion of US control over Greenland, stating that the island’s sovereignty remains absolute, despite comments by Donald Trump that referenced a proposed Arctic security framework with NATO. Denmark Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen condemned what she called threats, pressure and condescending speech “from our closest ally for generations.” She criticized talk [...]

A group of 73 South Korean nationals accused of participating in online scam operations in Cambodia were returned to South Korea on Friday. They will now face formal investigations in South Korea surrounding alleged “scam compounds.” Officials allege that the group is responsible for defrauding more than 800 South Koreans of approximately 33 million US [...]

Peru’s interim President José Jerí on Wednesday offered inconsistent explanations over unregistered meetings with two Chinese business owners who are subject to ongoing legal investigations. According to media reports, the meetings include an unregistered encounter with businessman Zhihua Yang in late December 2025 and in early January 2026, which took place at a “chifa” restaurant, [...]