A Hong Kong judge on Monday ruled against Deutsche Bank AG on a motion to dismiss a developer’s rental fraud lawsuit. Judge A.T. Reyes for the Court of First Instance of the High Court held that the claims brought by the developer Tin Lik should be resolved at trial. Lik claims that during his sale [...]
More than 40 prominent American Jewish leaders and scholars sent an appeal letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , it was reported Monday, urging Netanyahu to reject a recent report advocating legitimizing Israeli settlements in the West Bank . The letter’s signatories predicted that Israel’s international image would be damaged by endorsing the report, [...]
Twenty-four Palestinians detainees were permitted family visits at their Israeli jails on Monday as the result of a deal between Israeli authorities and hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners. Forty Gazans visited their relatives at Ramon prison for the first time since Israel banned family visits in 2007 when Palestinian militants abducted an Israeli soldier. Under the terms [...]
Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner on Saturday announced that the federal government will allow Florida access to a US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration database to challenge individuals’ voting rights if the state suspects them of not being US citizens. The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database is a web-based service that [...]
South African politician Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Monday was elected the first female leader of the African Union (AU) . Dlamini-Zuma, 63, is the South African Minister of Home Affairs. She was voted into office on Sunday evening after she successfully challenged the incumbent candidate, Jean Ping of Gabon, who held the office since 2008. Ping [...]
Former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed was formally charged on Sunday with illegally arresting a former chief justice of the nation’s criminal court and thereby violating the nation’s constitution . The constitution allows for the arrest of a judge only after a warrant is issued for a particular criminal act, suspicion of such conduct alone being [...]
The US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Friday ordered that the state’s new abortion law could take effect, but ordered that the state not prosecute the plaintiff, Jackson Women’s Health Organization (JWHO) , for continued operation of the clinic while it is in the process of meeting the new standards required [...]
Scottish police on Friday arrested Benat Atorrasagasti Ordonez, a member of the Basque separatist movement Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) who has been wanted by Spain authorities since 2001. Ordonez was a “carrier” for ETA between 1996 and 2001, responsible for transporting people and materials between Spain and France. He fled to France in 2001 after [...]
Amnesty International (AI) criticized the government of Kuwait on Friday for continuing to limit the rights of the Bidun. The Bidun jinsiyya, Arabic for “without nationality,” are a class of illegal immigrants in Kuwait and United Arab Emirates (UAE), who remain non-citizens either because their ancestors immigrated without filling out state paperwork before 1920, or [...]
UN observers confirmed Saturday that an attack on activists and army defectors in the Syrian village of Tremseh occurred on Thursday. The United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) reported signs of military presence: “There were pools of blood and blood spatters in rooms of several homes together with bullet cases. The UN Team also [...]
