Liew Vui Keong, chief minister in the Malaysian Prime Minister’s office, announced Wednesday that Malaysia would abolish the death penalty by the next sitting of Parliament. The move comes after several humanitarian groups, including Amnesty International, called for the death penalty’s abolition as a result of the execution of several minor offenders, including Westerners. Upon [...]

A Madrid court on Monday found Dr. Eduardo Vela, a gynecologist during the rule of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, guilty of abducting a child in 1969 but found that the 85-year-old’s crime fell beyond the statute of limitations, sparing him from sentencing. The Madrid Provincial Court agreed in June to hear the case of Ines [...]

Officials for the UK government, which had been objecting to the death penalty in the case of the extradition of two British Islamic State (IS) fighters who killed Americans in Syria, dropped its case, allowing the pair to be extradited to the US and face American courts. El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey were two [...]

Rosmah Mansor, wife of ousted Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, pleaded not guilty Thursday to 17 counts of money laundering. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission, a government agency tasked with preventing fraud, announced Mansor’s arrest on Wednesday. Mansor, 66, was brought to the Sessions Court of Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia’s capital) Thursday morning where she pleaded not [...]

British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Tueday that after Brexit, visa priority will be given to high-skilled workers while low-skilled workers may be barred from working in the country. The report was originally filed on September 18, but May announced it to the public this morning. It includes salary thresholds for different kinds of labor [...]

The US and Canada signed a new trade deal Monday to replace the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “Late last night, our deadline, we reached a wonderful new Trade Deal with Canada,” tweeted US President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning, “to be added into the deal already reached with Mexico. The new name [...]

The International Court of Justice ruled on Monday that landlocked Bolivia cannot force neighboring, coastal Chile to grant it access to a portion of the Pacific Ocean Chile presently controls. “The Court is unable to conclude, on the basis of the material submitted to it, that Chile has the obligation to negotiate with Bolivia in [...]

A referendum in Macedonia to change the country’s name to “The Republic of North Macedonia” garnered a 94.2 percent “yes” vote Sunday, but only 36.8 percent of eligible voters cast their ballots. Despite the low turnout, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev accepts the result and says he and the government will move forward with bringing the [...]

The Supreme Court of India on Thursday struck down Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, ending the 158-year-old colonial statute that made adultery illegal. The section allowed for the wife of an adulterer to be charged as an abettor and receive the same punishment, and did not allow for a wife to seek charges [...]

Ed Royce (R-CA) , Chairman of the US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, called upon the Trump administration Wednesday to “go further” in its reaction to the Myanmar Rohingya conflict and to condemn crimes against the Rohingya people which “amount to genocide.” Last week UN investigators renewed their call for charges to be [...]