The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ office announced on Monday that it is seeking a warrant for the arrest of former president Park Geun-hye on criminal charges of bribery and abuse of power. The prosecutors asked the Seoul Central District Court for a warrant after interrogating Park for several hours last week . Prosecutors are still [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases on Monday. In US Bank National Association v. Village at Lakeridge , a bankruptcy case from the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , the court will determine whether the appropriate standard of review for determining non-statutory insider status in a bankruptcy case is [...]
According to a report issued by IRNA , Iran has imposed sanctions on 15 US companies for human rights violations and supporting Israeli “terrorism” against Palestinians. The sanctions were issued in response to what the Iran government called “one-sided extraterritorial sanctions” issued by the US on Friday against China, North Korea, or the United Arab [...]
The United Nations (UN) stated on Friday that Israel has not yet taken any steps towards stopping illegal settlements in Palestinian territory. According to UN Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov, instead of working to halt the illegal settlements, Israel has authorized “a high rate” of settlements in contravention of international law. The UNSC Resolution 2334 [...]
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 56 people to prison for up to 14 years for their involvement in a deadly capsizing of a boat carrying migrants and refugees. The boat capsized close to the Egyptian coast last September, possibly on its way to Italy. 169 people were saved by rescuers and local fishermen, but [...]
Civil servant Carrie Lam on Sunday became Hong Kong’s new leader and first female chief executive after defeating former financial secretary John Tsang by a vote of 777-365. The 7.3 million people living in Hong Kong could not participate in the election. Instead, the new leader was chosen by a 1,200 person election committee. Lam [...]
On Tuesday, the United States and Britain decided to restrict carry-on electronics on planes from Muslim-majority countries to combat ‘security threats.’ Under the restrictions, passengers coming to the US from designated countries, most of which are Middle Eastern or North African, cannot take electronic devices larger than a cellphone into the cabin; the items are [...]
On Friday a judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia released an opinion affirming Trump’s authority to issue his second travel ban executive order. Despite arguments that the latest travel ban is a rehash of the initial “Muslim ban,” the judge held the new ban had undergone “substantive revisions” and [...]
US Federal Judge Robert Hinkle on Thursday ruled that the state of Florida must comply with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges and permit same-sex partners to have their names added to the death certificates of their partners. Despite the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling, Florida maintained that for those who died before the [...]
President Donald Trump’s healthcare bill was withdrawn from Congress on Friday after pushback from moderate Republicans and Democrats. Introduced to fulfill one of Trump’s biggest campaign promises, repealing the Affordable Care Act , the American Health Care Act of 2017 (AHCA) was pulled from Congress on the eve of its scheduled vote. Trump issued an [...]
