The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced Tuesday that it has asked Trial Chamber IV for authorization to withdraw all charges against former Sudanese rebel commander Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain, concluding that the evidence is no longer sufficient to sustain the case. The proceedings are formally titled The Prosecutor v. [...]

The Wisconsin Elections Commission found probable cause that billionaire Elon Musk violated state election bribery law by offering $1 million payments to voters during the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to reports on Tuesday. The commission voted 5-1 in a closed session last Thursday to refer two confidential complaints against Musk to the Brown [...]

A UN expert urged the UK government on Tuesday to protect women’s rights by maintaining single-sex spaces and services. The appeal comes as a draft Code of Practice is pending approval by the country’s Parliament, of which some members consider the draft a “deliberate rollback of minority rights in the UK for trans people.” The [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report Monday stating that Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh face deadly risks from the recent landslides that killed at least 17 and displaced over 3,000. Meenakshi Ganguly, deputy Asia director at HRW, said the risks to the refugee camps are a result of government policies, stating: Every monsoon is becoming [...]

The United States once stood as the principal architect of modern international criminal justice, from Nuremberg and Tokyo to the ad hoc tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Today, however, it finds itself in the disquieting position of actively undermining the [...]

The UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua (GHREN) on Monday a condemned the government’s revocation of the credentials of numerous lawyers and notaries. According to testimonies from those affected, there was no notification, legal basis, nor official explanation for the revocation. Many did not know they had been stripped of their licenses until [...]

US President Donald Trump on Monday issued dual executive orders (EOs) reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah containing ancient cliff dwellings and petroglyphs by nearly three million acres, or about 90 percent each. The first order diminishes the size of Bears Ears National Monument from approximately 1.36 million acres to 121,100 acres, [...]

A US federal appeals court on Monday reversed a trial judge’s decision to dismiss lawsuits against Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol. This judgment effectively revived hundreds of cases that were filed by families who claim that their children developed autism or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) after the women took Tylenol during pregnancy.  The 64-page [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida sharply criticized President Donald Trump and his attorneys in a ruling on his suit seeking damages from the IRS, saying that it was filed for “an improper purpose—to gain the imprimatur of judicial legitimacy for a ‘settlement’ that had no viable basis [...]

The European Union will impose age-based restrictions for minors across social media platforms, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Monday. The decision coincides with the publication of a report by a panel of experts convened by von der Leyen last year to develop a “strong and practical” European approach to keep children safe [...]