The Peru Congress on Monday unanimously voted to remove the Comptroller, Edgar Alarcon, from office. The vote to remove Alarcon was initiated over accusations that he gave public funds to the mother of his children, violated ethical rules by running a business while in office, and coerced an auditor to withhold information from Congress. Alarcon [...]
A judge for the US District Court of Southern California issued a preliminary injunction on Friday to stop California from implementing a ban against high capacity gun magazines. In 2016 California citizens approved Proposition 63 , which prohibits the possession of firearm magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. Citizens who were already in legal [...]
The US and Britain urged the Russian government on Friday to further the investigation into the assassination of Boris Nemtsov. Five Chechan men were convicted on Thursday for the murder of the opposition politician. The US Department of State released a statement hailing Nemstov as a “champion of democracy” and stated: We welcome the news [...]
The United Kingdom (UK) government on Sunday announced its withdrawal from a fishing arrangement made with other countries allowing them to fish within the UK waters. The London Fisheries Convention , originally signed in 1964, allowed Irish, Dutch, French, German, and Belgian ships to fish within six tothe twelve nautical miles of each other’s coastlines. [...]
On Saturday the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) accused a recent cyber attack on Russia and the Kremlin. The SBU stated that the hackers behind the most recent attack are the same as those who conducted an attack on the Ukrainian power grid in December 2016. Experts worldwide are still trying to decide who was [...]
In a narrow 4-3 decision , the Supreme Court of Iowa ruled on Friday that former Iowa Workers’ Compensation Commissioner, and now chief judge of the board, Christopher Godfrey can sue high-ranking government officials, including Governor Kim Reynolds and former Governor Terry Branstad, for violating equal protection and due process rights granted by the Iowa [...]
Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy signed a bill into law on Friday which takes aim at the state’s ongoing opioid epidemic. Calling the widespread epidemic “a complex crisis that does not have one root cause, nor… a simple solution,” Mallow had initially introduced the legislation, now codified as Public Act 17-131 , in January. After months [...]
The Austria Constitutional Court on Friday ruled that the government seizure of the apartment complex where Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was born is constitutional. The Court elaborated that “the expropriation of Adolf Hitler’s birthplace in Braunau (Upper Austria) by law was in the public interest, commensurate and not without compensation, and therefore not unconstitutional.” The [...]
The Supreme Court of Texas held on Friday that the Houston’s benefits policy need not extend to same-sex couples. In so holding, the Court concluded that: “The Supreme Court held in Obergefell that the Constitution requires states to license and recognize same-sex marriages to the same extent that they license and recognize opposite-sex marriages, but [...]
The lower house of the German Parliament voted 393-226 Friday to legalize same-sex marriage. The decision came shortly after Chancellor Angela Merkel changed her conservative stance on the issue. Although Merkel voted against the move she encouraged lawmakers to vote with their conscience instead of along party lines. Before allowing civil unions in 2001, Germany [...]
