The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) expressed concern on Monday over the suspension of the Iraqi political talk show Al-Haq Yuqal (The Truth Be Told), hosted by journalist Adnan Al-Taie, and urged the Iraqi authorities to restore the program. Iraqi authorities, citing “violations of public decency,” suspended the program for seven days and ordered past [...]

The European Commission announced Monday that the EU will end its reliance on Russian energy exports, citing security concerns. This announcement coincided with the release of the REPowerEU Roadmap, which serves as a follow-up to 2022’s REPowerEU Plan. The 2022 plan was launched in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and marked a commitment to [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans living in the US. The ruling follows a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of individual beneficiaries, sponsors of humanitarian parole processes, [...]

A coalition of attorneys general from 17 US states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit Monday challenging the implementation of President Donald Trump’s January 20 executive order stopping wind project approvals (Wind Directive). The lawsuit seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions stopping all federal agencies from implementing the Wind Directive for being arbitrary and [...]

The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is not merely a relic of a darker era in American history—it is a live wire capable of short-circuiting rights protected by US constitution. The act’s recent invocation by the Trump administration to summarily detain and forcibly disappear Venezuelan men into a notorious prison in El Salvador has pushed [...]

The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan condemned an aerial bombing of a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Fangak county by the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) as an atrocity crime on Tuesday. According to MSF, two helicopter gunships carried out the strike that obliterated the hospital on Sunday, May 4. [...]

Amnesty International warned in a report on Monday that Pakistan’s healthcare and disaster response systems failed to meet the needs of the elderly and children, who were the most vulnerable to the risks of death and disease due to extreme weather events related to climate change. The report noted the increasing frequency of heatwaves and [...]

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Monday dropped the prosecution of seven individuals charged with trespassing and resisting and/or obstructing a police officer for their conduct related to the police clearing of an encampment at the University of Michigan in May 2024. The seven defendants were Oliver Kozler, Samantha Lewis, Henry MacKeen-Shapiro, Michael Mueller, Asad [...]

UN human rights experts on Monday called on the Council of Europe to begin the negotiation on initiating a binding protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights recognizing the right to a healthy environment. Europe must respond decisively to science, justice, and its citizens, the experts stated, noting that youth and marginalized communities disproportionately [...]

Spain’s Supreme Court dismissed charges of five tax violations against former King Juan Carlos on Monday due to a lack of new evidence, upholding a prosecutor’s 2022 exoneration of all tax violations that were found. The case was brought by a group of former jurists who argued that only a court can exonerate an individual [...]