According to a news report on Sunday, Turkey’s government has dismissed 10,000 additional civil servants and closed 15 more media outlets for their supposed connection with US-based religious leader Fethullah Gulen, who Turkey has accused of orchestrating the attempted coup in July. These most recent sacks mean that over 100,000 people have been fired or [...]

Thousand of protesters called for the resignation of President Park Geun-hye after it was revealed she allowed individuals to influence state affairs. The demonstration of thousands came after the President apologized for allowing Choi Soon-sil, who is a daughter of a religious leader, to edit confidential speeches and receive funds even though she is not [...]

Airstrikes led by the Saudi Arabian coalition killed at least 90 prisoners and injured dozens more in the Zaydiyah district of the Red Sea port city of Hudaydah, Yemen on Saturday. The prison housed up to 84 prisoners and was bombed for hours resulting in the collapse of the building. The bombing occurred hours after [...]

The UN General Assembly on Friday elected 14 member-states by secret ballot to serve three-year terms on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) beginning January 1. The newly elected countries include Brazil, Croatia, Egypt, Hungary, Iraq, Japan, Rwanda, Tunisia and the US. Countries re-elected for an additional term were China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, South Africa [...]

A jury in Portland, Oregon on Thursday acquitted all seven defendants involved in the 41-day armed occupation of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge , in a trial that lasted nearly six weeks. The defendants were acquitted of the main charge of conspiring to impede federal employees from performing their duties, while no verdict was reached [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on Friday granted a stay on the preliminary injunction that had halted Michigan’s ban on taking selfies with completed voting ballots. In granting the stay, this places the ban back into effect. The district court opinion below had held such a ban was a violation of [...]

The UN General Assembly on Thursday voted to begin negotiations on banning nuclear weapons, despite opposition votes from world leaders including the United States, Russia, and the UK. The vote in the UN disarmament and international security committee passed 123-38, with 16 abstentions. The resolution aims to be a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear [...]

The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in five cases Friday, including a controversial dispute over a Virginia transgender student’s right to use the restroom of his choice. In Gloucester County School Board v. G.G. the court will rule on a Virginia school board’s policy preventing a transgender who student who identifies as male from using [...]

The High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland on Friday dismissed a multi-issue legal challenge to the UK’s exit from the EU, known as Brexit. There were multiple issues under consideration by the court all centering around whether the referendum by vote to leave the EU is binding on Northern Ireland and public policy arguments [...]

A UK employment tribunal ruled Friday that Uber can no longer treat its drivers as self-employed and must provide certain workers’ rights to its drivers, including minimum wage. The tribunal determined that the drivers can be classified as “workers” for Uber subsidiaries under employment legislation and are therefore entitled to minimum wage requirements from the [...]