A Turkish court ordered pop star Gülşen Çolakoğlu to be released Monday from pre-trial detention and to be placed under judicial control on the condition that she does not leave the residence. Gülşen was released from Bakırköy Closed Women’s Prison at around 14:40 PM local time and went to her residence in a private vehicle. [...]

The European Union (EU) and Ukraine Monday joined the Hague Judgements Convention. The Convention creates conditions for recognizing and enforcing judgements in both civil and commercial matters. It was created in 2019 to ensure that there was a legal avenue for assessing international court rulings on matters of trade. Prior to the Convention’s inception, legal uncertainty [...]

The flagship university of Modern Jewish Orthodoxy turned to the US Supreme Court on Monday in hopes of blocking a lower-court order that would require it to formally recognize an LGBTQ+ student organization. The case originated in 2021, after multiple unsuccessful attempts by the student club, the Pride Alliance, to seek recognition from Yeshiva University’s administration. [...]

A Peruvian judge Sunday ordered 30 months of pre-trial detention for President Pedro Castillo’s sister-in-law, Yenifer Paredes. The court found that the preventive detention was a well-founded request by prosecutors investigating corruption allegations. Peru’s Prosecution Office launched their investigation into Castillo’s activities in May, looking into allegations of criminal organization, aggravated influence peddling, and aggravated [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a court filing Monday that the FBI’s search of former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence revealed a “limited set” of documents that may be protected by attorney-client privilege. The filing comes after a Saturday order from Judge Aileen Cannon for the DOJ to respond to Trump’s motion [...]

Roads in and around Taizz, Yemen’s third largest city, have been blocked by rebel forces since 2015 in violation of international humanitarian law, provoking ire from a coalition of 15 human rights organizations who banded together Monday to call for meaningful action in the region to ensure the free flow of medication, food, and other [...]

Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday signed a decree granting monthly benefits to migrants who fled Ukraine and entered Russian territory. The decree extends monthly payments of 10,000 rubles ($166) to disabled people, people over the age of 80, and pregnant women who entered Russia from Ukrainian territory as well as the disputed Donbas region. The [...]

Federal prosecutors in New Mexico Friday announced the arrest of Herman Leyvoune Wilson (also known as Bilal Mu’Min Abdullah) on charges of providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Wilson is also accused of attempting obstruct, influence and impede at least one official proceeding in the fall of 2020. Federal [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Friday upheld the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) rule prohibiting smoking in HUD-subsidized public housing units. The Housing Act of 1937 authorizes HUD to provide standards to keep public housing “safe and habitable.” In 2016, HUD promulgated the Smoke Free Rule. This [...]

Moderna filed suit in the US and Germany Friday against Pfizer and BioNtech for three claims of patent infringement. Moderna claims that Pfizer and BioNtech used the company’s patented mRNA technology in COVID-19 vaccines without Moderna’s permission. Moderna alleges that before the pandemic, they had over a decade of research on mRNA in coronaviruses, with [...]