Afghanistan National Security Forces reported the arrest of five men on Saturday believed to have helped support the massacre that took place in December at the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan. The attack further strained Afghanistan and Pakistan’s already tense relationship, but Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has pledged to coordinate counter-terrorism efforts with Pakistan [...]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined El Salvador in a ceremony Friday commemorating the twenty-third anniversary of the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords . The accords, signed on January 16, 1992, marked the conclusion of more than a decade of civil war in El Salvador. The Salvadoran Civil War , which began with an attempted [...]
The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to rule on same-sex marriage, granting certiorari in four cases. The court consolidated appeals from Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee after the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld bans in those states. The court limited the petitions to the following questions: Does the Fourteenth Amendment require [...]
Four tech companies, including Apple and Google reached a $415 million settlement Thursday in a class action lawsuit claiming the companies unlawfully agreed to reduce employee compensation and mobility. The lawsuit was filed against Apple, Google, Intel Corporation and Adobe Systems by former technical employees for the companies. The plaintiffs alleged that the companies’ agreements [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) reached a settlement Thursday in a case against the US government challenging the constitutionality of detaining Muslim men as material witnesses without sufficient cause. The case alleged that following the 9/11 terrorist attacks the US government implemented a discriminatory practice of imprisoning Muslim men based on race, religion and [...]
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OCHCR) expressed concern on Friday regarding increasing political violence in Bangladesh. The OCHCR believes that the increase in political violence began earlier this month when the Bangladeshi government banned demonstrations and protesting after the Bangladesh National Party (BNR) attempted to launch a transport blockade in celebration [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan on Thursday issued a preliminary order forcing the state to recognize more than 300 same-sex marriages performed on March 22, 2014. The couples wed a day after US District Judge Bernard Friedman declared the Michigan ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, a decision [...]
Oklahoma executed Charles Frederick Warner on Thursday after the Supreme Court failed to grant a last minute stay . Mr. Warner was sentenced to death in 1997 for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. He requested the stay in light of Oklahoma’s botched execution in April, which resulted in the prolonged killing of [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Thursday reduced the maximum fine that BP will face under the Clean Water Act after he ruled that the size of the offshore oil spill was smaller than what the US government claimed. In the opinion, Federal Judge Carl Barbier said [...]
Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday opened a probe into potential war crimes in Palestinian territories. The probe is the first step toward opening an investigation of both Palestine and Israel relating to the Gaza war last summer, and will analyze information about jurisdiction and potential crimes. The probe comes [...]
