The nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC) filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of illegally rescinding a rule that reduced the discharge of mercury from dental offices. The complaint stated that the rule was withdrawn the same day President Donald Trump was inaugurated after White House Chief of Staff Reince [...]
The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nomination of Jeff Sessions for US attorney general on Wednesday. All 11 Republicans on the committee backed Sessions’ nomination, while all nine Democrats opposed him. It is estimated the full Senate could vote on the nomination as early as next week. Sessions was nominated by President Donald Trump last [...]
Leaders of multiple African countries announced Wednesday that they have backed a “strategy of collective withdrawal” from the International Criminal Court (ICC) . Prior to this weeks’ African Union (AU) summit, the AU issued a document seen by Reuters that proposed a coordinated withdrawal unless the ICC was reformed. The AU claims that the ICC [...]
Myanmar police announced on Wednesday that they have arrested four people in connection with the killing of prominent Muslim human rights lawyer, U Ko Ni. The lawyer was shot in the head at Yangon International Airport on Sunday while holding his grandchild. U Myint Swe was among those arrested and is accused of being the [...]
Russian news agencies reported Wednesday that three Federal Security Service (FSB) officials and one executive from the Kaspersky Labs cyber security company have been charged with treason. Two of the FSB officials have been identified as Sergei Mikhailov and Dmitry Dokuchayev. The Kaspersky Labs executive has been identified as Ruslan Stoyanov. Mikhailov is accused of [...]
Turkish Labour Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said Tuesday that authorities have dismissed more than 90,000 public servants for alleged connections to a coup attempt in July. Critics say the purge is targeted to any political opposition to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan . After the coup attempt 125,485 public servants were put through legal proceedings and 94,867 [...]
A group of UN human rights experts on Wednesday said the executive order on immigration signed by US President Donald Trump breaches international human rights obligations . The order , signed last Friday, bars all nationals from the Muslim-majority countries of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from entering the US for the [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International (AI) have criticized the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines as part of the war on drugs in the country. AI released a report on Tuesday related to AI’s investigation into the killings. HRW called Monday for the UN to begin an investigation into the killings, which have so [...]
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Charter Communications Inc.‘s subsidiary Spectrum for allegedly failing to deliver promised Internet speeds to customers. The lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, claims that Spectrum promised speeds and online content that it knew could not be delivered. Netflix, Facebook and various gaming [...]
Israel authorized the construction of 3,000 housing units in the West Bank Tuesday, despite criticism from the international community, who argue that the land is seen by Palestinians as the site of their future state. This is the fourth and largest approval for West Bank expansion since US President Donald Trump assumed office in January. [...]
