Chinese tech giant Tencent deleted dozens of university students’ LGBT social media accounts, citing violations of rules around information on the internet Wednesday. The students allege that access to their WeChat accounts was blocked on Tuesday, and they discovered all of the content on their accounts had disappeared on Wednesday. In place of these accounts [...]

The European Commission said Thursday that German automakers BMW, Daimler and the Volkswagen Group (Volkswagen, Audi and Porche) violated EU antitrust laws by colluding to restrict the deployment of cleaner emissions technology in diesel passenger cars. The Commission imposed a fine of €875 million on BMW and the Volkswagen Group. According to the Commission, between [...]

At least three lawsuits have been filed against Champlain Towers South Condominium Association Inc. after a condominium tower in Surfside, Florida collapsed on June 24. The death toll has reached 46, with 94 people remaining unaccounted for. The residential construction failure likely resulted from numerous contributing factors spanning multiple years. Champlain Towers South Condominium Association [...]

The government of India stated in an affidavit on Tuesday that US microblogging platform Twitter has lost its legal immunity against claims arising from user-generated content due to its failure to comply with the country’s new technology rules. The rules, known as the Information Technology (Guidelines For Intermediaries And Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, [...]

UN Special Rapporteur Thomas Andrews called Wednesday for countries to impose economic sanctions on Myanmar’s oil and gas sector in order to cripple the junta that took power over the country five months ago. Andrews identified two patterns that have emerged since then; the military junta’s widespread, systematic attacks on the people of Myanmar and [...]

Former executive president of Desarrollos Energéticos S.A. (DESA) Roberto David Castillo Mejía was found guilty of murder on Monday for the 2016 killing of environmental activist Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores. Castillo was a US-trained former intelligence official for the Honduran Army. The company DESA, for which he was an executive president, was working to acquire [...]

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled Wednesday that the domestic courts of Russia had violated a transgender mother’s parental rights by depriving her of any contact with her children due to her gender identity. The applicant A.M., whose gender was registered as “male” at birth, dissolved her seven-year marriage with Ms N in [...]

The Cowessess First Nation became the first Canadian Indigenous community on Tuesday to sign an agreement with the Canadian and Saskatchewan governments under Canada’s landmark Bill C-92 passed in 2019. The subsequent legislation empowered Indigenous communities to reclaim jurisdiction based on their own history, culture and laws. The jurisdiction is recognized as federal law and [...]

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands on Tuesday upheld politician Geert Wilders’ conviction for insulting Moroccans at a campaign rally in 2014. In 2016, Geert Wilders was convicted of inciting discrimination after he promised to lower the number of Morrocans in the Netherlands at a political rally that occurred in March, 2014. Wilders’ supporters were [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet urged the Human Rights Council and UN nations on Tuesday to take swift action to aid the deteriorating situation in Myanmar. Speaking at the 47th Session of the Human Rights Council, Bachelet said that the situation in Myanmar “has evolved from a political crisis to a multi-dimensional [...]