Kenya’s National Assembly nominated Professor Kithure Kithiki to fill the vacancy in the Office of the Deputy President on Friday. However, this nomination came only hours after the Senate voted to remove Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office, resulting in the High Court at Kerugoya issuing orders barring Kithiki from assuming his role until October 24. [...]

An 80-year old ex-officer of East Germany’s Stasi secret police force was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday by the Berlin Regional Court for the murder of Czeslaw Kukuczka in 1974. The 10-year sentence was lower than the 12 years demanded by prosecutors. Kukuczka failed to show up to work on March 3, 1974, [...]

Rigathi Gachagua, Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya, faced an impeachment hearing Wednesday morning after the country’s National Assembly passed a motion for his removal. The motion for proposed removal was made Tuesday, alleging that Gachagua violated multiple articles of the Kenyan Constitution, the Penal Code, and several Acts. It also listed multiple accusations [...]

The Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) ruled Friday that in order for X (formerly Twitter) to resume activities in Brazil, it must prove payment of the fines imposed for non-compliance with the court’s order to appoint a legal representative in Brazil. Brazil, with more than 21.5 million X users, is a major market for the social [...]

Members of Russia’s State Duma, the country’s legislative authority consisting of 450 members, adopted a bill Wednesday to ban the adoption of children from the Russian Federation by citizens in countries where gender reassignment is permitted, emphasizing the need to uphold “traditional values.” The bill was approved by an absolute majority of the State Duma [...]

The Georgia State Election Board approved a new on rule on Friday, which will require all paper ballots to be counted by hand for the election in November. The rule will require three poll officers to independently count each box of ballots. Any discrepancies found between the hand count and recorded totals are required to [...]

The US Senate blocked two separate in vitro fertilization (IVF) bills Tuesday — the Right to IVF Act, sponsored by Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and the IVF Protection Act, sponsored by Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Katie Britt (R-AL). The Right to IVF Act was voted down in a 51-44 vote which needed a minimum [...]

Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspected gunman in an assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump, appeared in a Florida federal courtroom Monday. Routh is facing several federal gun crimes including possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. The apparent attempted assassination took place while [...]

Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard denounced the rollback of human rights in Tunisia on Friday after a four-day visit where she met with several human rights defenders, civil society representatives, the Tunisian Judges Association, lawyers, political parties, journalists, victims of human rights violations and families of arbitrarily detained people. In response to her visit, [...]

Bangladesh police arrested one of the country’s most senior opposition party leaders Friday in Dakar following days of unrest and protests. Police have not provided details on the arrest, but Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), is facing hundreds of charges, according to AFP. This comes as police fail to [...]