French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday submitted a proposed Constitutional amendment to the French Parliament to address anti-terrorism laws in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris in November. It is reported that the proposed amendments would allow the government to strip the nationality of natural born citizens convicted of terrorist acts and extend emergency [...]
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last week that it is suspending its asset seizure program which allows for local police departments to keep items confiscated from individuals under federal law. The controversial equitable sharing program allows for police departments to execute asset forfeiture cases under federal law instead of state law. While executing [...]
Hundreds gathered in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city Friday to protest , the day after a Thai court sentenced two Myanmar migrant workers to death for the 2014 murders of two British tourists. The verdict resulted from a trial built around DNA evidence that linked the two workers to the crime. The defense argued the DNA [...]
Months after a deadly July arson attack that left an 18-month old Palestinian and his parents dead, the Israeli government is making moves to prosecute the Jewish extremists suspected to have committed the attacks. The length of time it has taken for the Israeli government to move towards indictment has been met with criticism. Opponents [...]
Bangladesh and Russia signed a $12.65 billion nuclear power deal on Friday. The state-run Atomic Energy Commission collaborated with the Russian Government and Rosatom to cement the deal. Kamrul Islam Bhyian, spokesman for the Ministry of Science and Technology, stated that work will begin early next year at Rooppur in Iswardi, 100 miles from Dhaka. [...]
U.S. special forces obtained a document during a raid in eastern Syria sanctioning the harvesting of human organs. The document permits the harvesting of a captive’s organs to save a Muslim’s life, even if it is fatal for the captive. Previously, Iraq has accused Islamic State of harvesting human organs and trafficking them for profit. [...]
China is expected to pass new anti-terrorism laws on Sunday which would require technology companies to provide information to the government from technology products and make information systems “secure and controllable.” The proposed laws have been criticized by western organizations and the US Department of State . Critics of the law believe that it may [...]
The Fukui District Court in Japan lifted an injunction on Thursday against allowing two nuclear reactors to reopen. Japan ordered closed all of its nuclear reactors after the Fukushima Disaster in 2011. A group of residents filed an injunction to keep the nuclear reactors closed in Takahama earlier this year because they believed it would [...]
Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa on Thursday announced amendments to the nation’s foreign investor law in an effort to stimulate Zimbabwe’s stagnant economy. The ambiguously-worded Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Bill of 2007 required all foreign companies to transfer majority ownership into the hands of Zimbabwean citizens. Some feel that President Robert Mugabe‘s plan to force [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Thursday called for a thorough investigation into torture allegations levied against the police responsible for the arrests of two men in relation to the Koh Tao murders. The men, Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun, were found guilty Thursday of the murder of two British tourists in the vacation island of [...]
