The secretary to the Sri Lankan president said Monday that the country’s Supreme Court has ruled against holding provincial council elections in the absence of a report by the delimitations review committee. President Maithripala Sirisena had, in an invocation of the Supreme Court’s consultative jurisdiction under Article 129 of Sri Lanka’s constitution, asked the court [...]

Former first lady of Guatemala and presidential candidate Sandra Torres was arrested on Monday in her home near Guatemala City for breaking campaign finance rules and for unlawful association. Torres and her political party, National Unity of Hope (UNE), have called the arrest politically motivated. Torres has thrice run unsuccessfully for the presidency of Guatemala. [...]

The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday ordered prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to reconsider her choice to not charge Israel for their raid on a flotilla carrying aid to the Gaza Strip. On May 31, 2010, Israeli Defence Forces attacked a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid, resulting in the death of eight Turks [...]

A UN panel reported Tuesday that the US, UK and French governments may be complicit in war crimes for their assistance to the Saudi-led coalition that is attacking and starving civilians in Yemen as a military tactic. The panel’s report, drawn from interviews with more than 600 victims and witnesses involved with the half-decade long [...]

A group of British members of Parliament proposed a bill Monday to prevent Prime Minister Boris Johnson from exiting the EU without a negotiated deal that they plan on bringing for a vote on Tuesday. The text of the bill, titled the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) Bill of 2019, was released on Twitter by [...]

In the first week of August 2019, the Indian Parliament passed, and the President signed legislation to remove Articles 370 and 35A of the India Constitution. Article 370 preserves the autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), a princely state that has been forcibly divided up between India and Pakistan. Article 35A empowers the J&K State [...]

Overview Republic Act No. 11293, or the Philippine Innovation Act, was signed into law by the Philippine President on April 17, 2019.  However, the Act was released to the public only on July 16, 2019. The Philippine Innovation Act aims to promote a culture of strategic planning and innovation in the country through improving innovation [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Thursday upheld an assault weapons ban in Cook County, Illinois. The court noted that it had upheld a similar ordinance in 2015 in the case of Friedman v. City of Highland Park. In this case the appellants argued that the district court should have given [...]

US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler on Wednesday signed a notice that seeks to reduce pollutant regulations for methane. The EPA suggests that methane should not have been subject to separate, redundant regulations, and that removing methane-specific regulations imposed in 2016 will “not affect the amount of methane emission” while other volatile organic [...]

US Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz said Thursday that former FBI Director James Comey mishandled records of meetings he had with the Trump administration. Seven memoranda that span January 6, 2017, through June 6, 2017, were subject to the investigation. The memos were all generated by Comey, who used the FBI’s computer [...]