The Atlanta City Council on Monday unanimously approved an ordinance decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana within the city limits. Following the path of other cities, the council approved, by a 15-0 vote,...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a 27-page report on Monday alleging that Jordan conducted mass summary deportations of Syrian refugees without affording them an adequate opportunity to challenge their removal from the country. The report...
The US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in Gill v. Whitford , a case directly challenging the constitutionality of Wisconsin's congressional districts with broad implications for the limits of political gerrymandering nationwide. The Court will address...
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, was convicted and sentenced by a Moscow court to 20 days in jail on Monday after for calling on his supporters to join him in an unauthorized rally in Nizhny Novgorod. Russian officials...
The Supreme Court began the October 2017 term with oral arguments in two cases, one concerning employment dispute arbitration and the other concerning criminal-removal in immigration proceedings. The first, Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis ,...
Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev signed an agreement Monday demarcating 85 percent of the 1,280 kilometer Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. The Kyrgyzstan parliament had already approved the legislation early in September, but the president signing the "Draft...
Carles Puigdemont, leader of the Catalonia government, announced Monday that the autonomous Spanish region had "won the right to an independent state in the form of a republic" after conducting a heated referendum in the region, despite the...
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida on Friday blocked a Florida law that would require individuals and groups that offer abortion advice to provide an in-depth explanation of the...
Germany's new same-sex marriage law took effect on Sunday, allowing Karl Kreile and Bodo Mende, a couple for 38 years, to be the first same-sex couple to marry in the country. The couple was married in a civil ceremony at...
Bangladesh and Myanmar officials agreed on Monday to a plan for the repatriation of more than half a million Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled across the border to Bangladesh. Under the agreement , refugees would have the...