Six journalists were arrested in Ivory Coast on Sunday and charged with “spreading false information,” according to media outlets and public prosecutors. The journalists, including three media owners, allegedly published stories designed to incite further mutiny by security forces in the country who are protesting over compensation. The alleged “false news” appeared in Le Temps, [...]
Fifty-nine percent of Swiss voters opposed a proposal on Sunday that would prevent tax increases for corporations. Switzerland gives foreign firms lower taxes than domestic firms, which was criticized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development . In response, the Swiss government planned to change the special status of foreign multinational corporations but offer [...]
Pakistani authorities have driven nearly 600,000 Afghan refugees back into Afghanistan since July 2016, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report Monday. HRW claims that among those being forced out of the country are 365,000 lawfully registered refugees. HRW also alleges that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is complicit in what it [...]
The Islamabad High Court ruled Monday that all public celebrations of Valentine’s day are prohibited with “immediate effect.” The prohibition will affect government offices, private businesses and media sources. Print and electronic media have been ordered to cease all “Valentine’s Day promotions immediately” lest they are reported to the police by the Pakistan Electronic Media [...]
The Swedish Court of Patent Appeals and the Market Court , an appellate court with exclusive jurisdiction over intellectual property cases, ordered an Internet service provider (ISP) to block access to the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay and the streaming site Swefilmer . The decision overturns a district court’s 2015 ruling and orders Swedish ISP [...]
DuPont and Chemours Co settled approximately 3,550 personal injury claims for $671 million on Monday. The claims arose after a leak of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) , a chemical used to make Teflon with known links to cancer, from DuPont’s Parkersburg, West Virginia, plant. The claimants alleged that the chemical contaminated their water supplies and had [...]
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and US President Donald Trump, appearing in a joint press conference in Palm Beach, Florida, strongly condemned a North Korea ballistic missile test. North Korea tested a ballistic missile on Sunday which flew East for about 300 miles until it landed in the Sea of Japan . UN resolutions bar [...]
The US rejected the appointment of former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to lead the UN Mission in Libya , despite official reports that all other 14 members of the UN Security Council approved the appointment. The US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, expressed disappointment on Friday over the the plan to appoint Fayyad, [...]
On Saturday tech company Oracle appealed the decision on their lawsuit over Google’s use of their software to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit . Oracle is alleging that Google’s Android software violated Oracle’s copyright, by copying certain code made by Oracle. Oracle lost in the disctrict court, but reasons that the [...]
Democratic Federal Election Commission (FEC) member Ellen Weintraub in a statement on Friday urged President Donald Trump to present evidence of his claims of extensive voter fraud in New Hampshire. Earlier this week Trump alleged that thousands of voters from Massachusetts had been successful in illegally voting in New Hampshire. Trump further alleged that the [...]
