The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a policy change Tuesday that put an end to the practice of mass worksite operations, a strategy used by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that often resulted in the simultaneous arrest of hundreds of unauthorized noncitizen workers. In a memorandum to the heads of ICE, the [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments to determine whether Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron could defend his state’s abortion law. Reports interpreted justices — both conservative and liberal — as responding favorably to arguments for allowing a defense. As a result, there is speculation that the court may vote in favor of the [...]

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands on Tuesday ruled in favor of Somalia in the dispute between Somalia and Kenya concerning the maritime border of the Indian Ocean. The top court ruled unanimously that there was no agreed maritime boundary between Somalia and Kenya. The new boundary line, which was decided [...]

California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday announced that the California Department of Justice opened an investigation into an oil spill that occurred off the Huntington Beach coast earlier this month. Bonta shared that federal, state, and local authorities will investigate the oil spill to determine the spill’s cause and to assess what measures could have [...]

A group of Indian app developers and start-ups, the Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF), on Monday filed a petition before the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against Google’s new billing policy which is expected to come into effect in March 2022. ADIF has challenged Google’s new policy of imposing proprietary in-house payment processing systems [...]

Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Monday issued a new executive order prohibiting any entity, including privately-owned businesses, from enforcing a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on workers in the state. Abbott also called on other state lawmakers to sign a similar ban into law. Under the order, “o entity in Texas can compel receipt of a COVID-19 [...]

Five international rights groups are urging Algerian authorities to drop their effort to dissolve a prominent civil society group over alleged violation of the law on associations, Human Rights Watch stated in a report on Monday. The five rights organizations are Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Cairo Institute of Human Rights Studies, the International [...]

A federal judge in the US District Court for the District of Alaska on Sunday ruled that two companies, Kloosterboer International Forwarding and Alaska Reefer Management, can continue shipping frozen fish from Canada to the eastern US. Almost 26 million pounds of fish has been stranded in Canada after US Customs and Border Protection issued [...]

A tech group backed by the Australian units of Facebook, Google, and Twitter on Monday announced the creation of a special committee to resolve complaints about misinformation posted on their websites. The Digital Industry Group Inc (DIGI) said that the new committee would oversee the group members’ adherence to the Australian Code of Practice on [...]

A military court in Burkina Faso Monday began the trial of 14 people, including prior president Blaise Compaore, accused of plotting the assassination of the country’s former president Thomas Sankara. The trial takes place 34 years after a hit squad gunned down Sankara is one of the most infamous killings in modern African history. On [...]