Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and opposition candidate Edmundo González both claimed on Monday that they won the Venezuelan presidential elections. González’s opposition coalition accused the Venezuelan government of electoral fraud, alleging that González obtained over 73 percent of votes. The US expressed doubts about the integrity of the process. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken [...]

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed in the Iranian capital Tehran on Wednesday morning, according to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard-affiliated Tasnim news agency. Hamas immediately accused Israel of the killing in a statement. Haniyeh had previously claimed the office of Palestinian Prime Minister following the Hamas-Fatah split, and he continued to hold Hamas leadership [...]

A US federal court dismissed a Republican National Committee (RNC) challenge on Sunday to a Mississippi law that allows validly cast mail-in votes to be counted for up to five business days after election day. Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi decided that since there is [...]

Pakistan’s police on Monday announced the arrest of the deputy leader of Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-Labaik (TLP) party, Zaheerul Hassan Shah, for placing a bounty against Chief Justice of the Pakistan Qazi Faez Esa, according to local media. Hassan Shah placed the 10-million rupee bounty against Esa because of the Chief Justice’s alleged support of the minority [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Virginia and law firm Butler Curwood filed a lawsuit in Lynchburg, Virginia against Liberty University on Monday for firing former employee Ellenor Zinski after she disclosed that she was transgender. The complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. The ACLU [...]

On Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit found in Miller v. Ziegler that a Missouri law banning lobbying for two years after an official leaves elected office was unconstitutional. The law in question, Article III, Section 2(a) of the Missouri Constitution, was enacted through a ballot initiative in 2018. It states [...]

The Iowa District Court enforced on Monday a law banning abortions six weeks after pregnancy. Iowa is the 22nd state to impose restrictions on abortion since the US Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights in 2022. House File 732 bans most abortions after cardiac activity is detected in the embryo. It previously survived a legal challenge [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called upon Taliban authorities for the immediate and unconditional release of journalist Mohammed Ibrahim Mohtaj on Monday. Mohtaj is the third journalist to be arrested in Kandahar, Afghanistan in the past month as the Taliban authorities crack down further on local media workers and journalists. Mohtaj, a radio presenter [...]

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) issued a statement on Monday confirming several of its members were contacted by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) embassies in their respective countries to “attempt to intimidate and dissuade them” from travelling to Taiwan for the upcoming annual summit held in Taipei, Taiwan. The statement noted that “ight [...]

Over 150 New Zealand organisations on Monday released an open letter to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon calling for work to stop on a contentious bill that would define in statute the principles of te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi, the nation’s founding constitutional document. In the letter published by ActionStation Aotearoa, organisations described the [...]