The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Tuesday that Germany’s investigation into a 2009 airstrike on Kunduz, Afghanistan, was sufficiently conducted and did not violate the European Convention on Human Rights. The German Federal Prosecutor General opened the investigation in 2010 when Afghan citizen Abdul Hanan filed a complaint after losing his two young [...]

The trial of Paul Rusesabagina, whose actions inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda,” began Wednesday in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Rusesabagina saved hundreds of lives by providing shelter to people at the hotel where he worked as a manager. These actions inspired the film “Hotel Rwanda,” and Rusesabagina was awarded [...]

France’s National Assembly approved a controversial anti-radicalism bill on Tuesday in a vote of 347 to 151 with 65 abstentions. The bill would strengthen oversight of mosques and religious schools as part of a broader effort to counter extremism. The bill would also ban the issuance of virginity certificates. Virginity tests are usually demanded by [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) trial against Alfred Yekatom and Patrice-Edouard Ngaïssona, accused of war crimes such as murder, torture, and attacking the civilian population and religious buildings in the Central African Republic (CAR), region opened Tuesday with both suspects denying all allegations. The region witnessed an armed conflict between the Seleka and Anti-Balaka groups. [...]

A trial court in The Hague granted a preliminary injunction Monday against the Dutch government’s curfew, which was instituted to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The curfew lasted from 9 PM to 4:30 AM and was enacted under the government’s emergency powers, which enabled the executive branch to bypass the Senate and House of [...]

Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai was arrested again Wednesday while in jail on suspicion of assisting a fugitive captured by China last year, according to local newspaper Oriental Daily. Lai and nine others were arrested in August under the new national security law for suspected collusion with foreign forces. The law, which came into force in [...]

Nevada Assembly Speaker Jason Frierson and Assemblywomen Teresa Benitez-Thompson and Brittney Miller introduced Assembly Bill 126 Monday to move Nevada from a presidential caucus to a primary system. Caucuses were once the most common method of choosing presidential nominees. In 2020 only four states—Iowa, Nevada, North Dakota and Wyoming—held either a Democratic or Republican caucus. In Nevada, the [...]

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Tuesday that he was launching two reviews, to be conducted by Liberal MP Celia Hammond and a deputy secretary of his department, Stephanie Foster, into the culture and laws surrounding workplace sexual assault in Parliament House after former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins came forward with her 2019 rape allegations [...]

Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta released exclusive documentation leaked from a government source Monday confirming that 27 men who went missing and were presumed dead in 2017 were in fact detained by Chechnyan local police, undermining the Chechnyan authorities’ official denial of their involvement in the disappearances. The documentation comes in the form of internal [...]

Indian politicians and climate activists on Monday condemned the arrest of 22-year-old climate activist Disha Ravi on charges of sedition for her alleged involvement with a Google document “toolkit” containing resources to support the protesting Indian farmers. The toolkit garnered attention after it was tweeted by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. Police believe that Ravi [...]