The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy, Joseph Benza III, pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights charge on Friday. He assaulted a transgender man, Emmett Brock, who exercised his First Amendment rights by making an obscene hand gesture while driving. The incident occurred on February 10, 2023. Benza, stationed in the municipality Norwalk, was [...]

UN launched Friday the United Nations Action Plan to Enhance Monitoring and Response to Antisemitism. The UN Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) developed the Action Plan, aiming to ensure a more coordinated and effective response to antisemitism. The Action Plan outlines comprehensive global antisemitism prevention strategies, with a focus on monitoring, training, advocacy, and stakeholder collaboration. The [...]

Kosovo’s interior minister announced the closure of parallel institutions used by the country’s ethnic Serb minority on Wednesday, a move which was condemned by the European Union. Kosovo’s interior minister Xhelal Sveçla said that “the era of municipalities and parallel and criminal institutions of Serbia in the Republic of Kosovo” has ended, with 28 parallel [...]

Syrian de-facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa announced on Thursday that the country is ready to allow UN forces into the UN-established buffer zone along the Israeli border. This statement was made during a joint news conference held in Damascus with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani. Speaking to the media, al-Sharaa [...]

Israeli ministers passed a ceasefire deal with Hamas in a 24-8 vote hours after the deal was approved by the country’s security cabinet, local media reported early Saturday. The deal—mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the US—was initially announced on Wednesday but hit road bumps as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted that final details had [...]

US President Joe Biden opined Friday without legal effect that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which ensures equal rights on the basis of sex, has been added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment. In the statement, Biden said: It is long past time to recognize the will of the American people. In keeping with [...]

South Korea’s Corruption Investigation Office for High Ranking Officials (CIO) on Friday filed a formal arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol with the Seoul Western District Court, according to local media. This is the first time in the history of Korea’s modern constitution that an arrest warrant for insurrection has been sought against [...]

The Islamabad Bench of Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau Court on Friday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, to imprisonment for 14 and seven years, respectively, in a £190 million corruption case. The court earlier delayed the verdict amidst ongoing negotiations between Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaaf (PTI) party and the ruling coalition [...]

Nineteen Armenian human rights NGOs and individual advocates on Friday jointly appealed to international organizations and foreign ambassadors in Azerbaijan, urging them to oversee the trials of Armenian detainees in Baku. Criminal hearings are currently underway in Baku involving former leaders of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. All the defendants, who are ethnic Armenians, face charges [...]

The US Supreme Court upheld the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” on Friday. This confirms that the application TikTok will be banned on Sunday. The act makes it unlawful for any entity to distribute a “foreign adversary controlled application” in the US. It explicitly singles out ByteDance Ltd, the parent company of TikTok. [...]