The Navajo Nation on Tuesday filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) alleging that water flowing from a punctured mine in Colorado was toxic and "damaged the Nation's environment, people, and economy." Specifically, the 48-page...
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Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane announced her resignation Tuesday following a conviction on perjury and obstruction charges. Kane was convicted Monday on nine criminal charges, including two felony perjury charges that each carry seven-year prison...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Monday announced the transfer of 15 Guantanamo detainees to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Twelve of the detainees were from Yemen, and the other three were from Afghanistan. Six...
Human rights victims of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos' regime petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court on Monday to permanently block the government's plan to bury him in the "Heroes Cemetery." The petitioners assert that the burial for the...
UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, warned on Monday that the upcoming trial in Singapore of a teenage blogger is a sign of increased criminalization...
A Hong Kong court on Monday sentenced three leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy protests who were convicted on charges related to their occupation of a government building. Joshua Wong and Alex Chow, prominent leaders of the Umbrella Revolution ,...
A group of independent UN human rights experts on Monday expressed concern over Bahrain's persecution of the Shia population. The experts said, "he intensified wave of arrests, detentions, summons, interrogations and criminal charges brought against numerous Shia religious...
Egypt's public prosecutor on Saturday issued an order for the arrest of 13 people accused of committing profiteering, forgery and embezzlement as part of a national wheat import scandal. Local suppliers have historically added wheat to their imported supplies...
Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement this weekend urging Bangladesh officials to immediately end the illegal detentions of two citizens. Ahmed Bin Quasem and Humman Qader Chowdhury...
A Nice court on Saturday upheld a ban on full-body swimsuits, known as burkinis, in the southern French city of Cannes. The city's mayor imposed the ban last month after authorities and surrounding residents criticized the full body...
