UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Tuesday expressed concern over a new national security law which increases China’s cyber security powers. The law calls for an increase in internet oversight and for authorities to take tougher measures against cyber attacks, thefts and the spread of harmful information. Zeid said the [...]

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday upheld a 75-year-long policy prohibiting individuals, corporations or firms working under federal contracts from contributing to the campaigns of federal candidates, parties and committees. Plaintiffs in the case, three individuals who have held federal contracts and were previously barred from making campaign [...]

A group of leading computer scientists at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT on Monday published a paper criticizing the US and UK governments for seeking the redesign of internet systems to allow governments to access information even if encrypted. The researchers claim that the governments’ requirement of exceptional access to communications [...]

The South Carolina Senate on Tuesday approved Senate Bill 897 , which would remove the Confederate flag from the State House and the Capitol Complex, by a vote of 37 to 3 . It was then introduced in the South Carolina House for approval. The amendment states that the only flags allowed on state grounds [...]

Prosecutors have asked for three and a half years imprisonment for Oskar Gröening, who is charged with 300,000 counts of acting as an accessory to murder in Auschwitz before the L&uumlneberg District Court . Gröening, 94-year-old former S.S. sergeant and Auschwitz guard, has been dubbed the “Accountant of Auschwitz” for his duties of guarding, collecting [...]

The nuclear negotiations between six world powers and Iran will continue beyond Tuesday’s deadline until Friday, July 10. This is not an official extension of deadline , according to High Representative for the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini , though the deadline was previously extended from June 30 to July 7. [...]

An unnamed Australian man has allegedly bribed New South Wales judges with approximately $2.2 million in order to obtain less severe jail sentences, according to confidential police documents cited by Fairfax Media and Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Four Corners Monday. According to the reports , the man has ties to the italian mafia and took part [...]

Two Moroccan women on Monday went on trial for gross indecency for wearing skirts that police characterized as “too tight.” The women, hairdressers aged 23 and 29, were arrested in mid-June in the city of Agadir after a passerby notified the police about the women’s allegedly provocative clothing. At Monday’s hearing, 200 lawyers took turns [...]

A UK judge on Monday sentenced former News of the World features editor Jules Stenson to a four month suspended prison sentence for his role in hacking the phones of celebrities and government officials. Stenson pleaded guilty to charges of violating the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act last December. The judge said Stenson received a [...]

Chinese ambassador Zhao Jianhua said Monday that the country would not participate in Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) hearings over a territory dispute with the Philippines. At issue are a number of islands and shoals in the South China Sea, that the Philippines says China has annexed illegally under the UN Convention on the Law [...]