Malawi’s constitutional court on Monday nullified the 2019 presidential election results. A five-judge panel unanimously agreed to the nullification, citing widespread anomalies and irregularities in the election results. In May 2019 Malawi reelected President Peter Mutharika with 1,940,709 votes, 38.57 percent of total votes. His opposition, Lazarus Chakwera, followed with 1,781,740 votes, 35.41 percent of [...]

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) circulated letters to seven voice providers Tuesday, urging them to provide information that can help crack down on foreign robocalls. Robocalls have become a point of concern for many Americans and last year cost consumers $19 million. The FCC hopes that the information provided will allow them to prevent [...]

A judge with the Pietermaritzburg High Court in South Africa issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for former president Jacob Zuma. The ex-president was scheduled to appear for a pre-trial hearing but did not show up. Zuma’s lawyer, Daniel Mantsha, presented a doctor’s note from a South African military hospital, certifying that Zuma had received two [...]

An appeals court in Canada on Tuesday dismissed a recent complaint from First Nations peoples seeking to delay expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline. The project intends to add capacity for delivery from Alberta’s oil sands to the British Columbia coast, and four First Nations’ groups had sued to prevent the project from going forward. [...]

California Senator Scott Wiener introduced SB 219 to the state legislature Monday in an attempt to make PG&E a publicly owned utility. The move comes a year after the company filed for bankruptcy, stemming from liability for the 2017 and 2018 California wildfires. SB 219 would “authorize the authority to acquire, by eminent domain, the [...]

EU regulators in Dublin on Monday announced a statutory inquiry into Google’s processing of location data and transparency surrounding that processing. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) released a statement launching their investigation into Google’s Irish subsidiary to determine whether the company meets transparency obligations under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or has a [...]

The US House of Representatives on Monday introduced a resolution denouncing Britain’s decision permitting Chinese telecommunications group Huawei to contribute to the Britain’s 5G networks despite Trump administration disapproval. The UK’s National Security Council approved Huawei equipment in “periphery” 5G systems, but not core secure systems, and capped out the telecommunication company’s market share at [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on Monday documenting how Tanzania’s health policies deny adequate services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people and other people who are at risk of contracting HIV. The report details the escalating attacks against LGBT individuals and how the anti-LGBT crackdown has disabled many of the community [...]

The Trump administration declared a public health emergency on Friday due to increasing outbreaks of the coronavirus. As part of his declaration, President Donald Trump suspended entry of immigrants and visitors who pose a risk of transmitting the disease, as well as imposing a quarantine on citizens arriving from China’s Hubei Provence. The US declaration [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California approved a 6.5 million dollar settlement agreement on Friday in a class action lawsuit against Chipotle over a misleading non-GMO advertising campaign. Plaintiffs accused Chipotle of false advertising for claiming that the food they serve is non-GMO. The Plaintiffs say this is [...]