Thousands of people rallied in Warsaw, Poland on Sunday to protest controversial proposals aimed at reforming the country’s court system. The demonstration comes as a response to a series of bills passed by Poland’s Senate over the last week that many fear are a threat to judicial independence. The bills give parliament, where the Law [...]
Millions of Venezuelans voted on Sunday to reject President Nicolás Maduro’s plan to rewrite the nation’s constitution. The non-binding referendum was organized by the country’s opposition activists. More than 7 million individuals, roughly one-third of Venezuela’s registered voters, took part with over 98 percent rejecting Maduro’s plan . Many have accused the efforts for a [...]
The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) released a report Monday condemning an increase in civilian deaths in Afghanistan during the first half of 2017. Although there was an overall decrease in civilian casualties in the first six months of 2017, there was an increase in injuries and deaths from improvised explosive devices (IED). IEDs [...]
A judge for the Superior Court of California postponed a decision Friday for injunctive relief to block Toshiba Corporation from selling its flash memory business in an attempt to relieve losses from the nuclear reactor business. As per a joint venture with Western Digital which helps finance equipment at Toshiba’s plants, Western Digital has also [...]
The Venezuela government’s opposition opened polls Sunday over President Nicolas Maduro’s call to rewrite the constitution . Many have accused Maduro’s plan to be undemocratic and a way to suppress the months of anti-government protests against his presidency. Maduro states that the new assembly which would elect 527 members as it is the only solution [...]
The Office of the Inspector General for the US Department of Justice issued a report on Friday criticizing the Bureau of Prison‘s (BOP) treatment of inmates with mental illnesses. The report singles out a prison in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, having a pending lawsuit against it, alleging that the institution mistreated prisoners and denied adequate mental health [...]
The Philippines Office of the Ombudsman announced plans to charge former Philippines president Benigno Aquino III on Friday for the botched “anti-terror” raid that led to what is known as the Mamasapano massacre in 2015. The raid left 44 Special Action Force (SAF) commandos dead as a result of a firefight with the Moro Islamic [...]
The Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal voided the oaths of office of four opposition lawmakers on Friday and removed them from the legislature. Among the four disqualified lawmakers were 24-year-old Nathan Law, leader of the 2014 “Umbrella movement” protests, veteran activist “Long Hair” Kwok-hung Leung, Siu-lai Lau, and Edward Yiu. The reasons behind Judge [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Hawaii expanded the exemptions permitted under the Trump administration’s temporary travel ban on visitors from six predominantly Muslim countries late Thursday night. Earlier this month the state of Hawaii asked Judge Derrick Watson to interpret the scope of a ruling from the Supreme Court [...]
Malta’s Parliament approved a bill legalizing same-sex marriage on Wednesday, making it the fifteenth country in the EU and the twenty-fifth country in the world to do so. The bill, in making marriage “fully gender neutral” also allows same-sex couples to “adopt or take on their partner’s surname without distinction.” Malta had only legalized divorce [...]
