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 [...]

UK Prime Minister Theresa May  announced Tuesday that all couples will now have the choice to enter into a civil partnership rather than to get married. May stated that allowing this union for all couples was necessary since some individuals “want to formalize their relationship but don’t necessarily want to get married.” This change stems [...]

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 [...]

An Egyptian court on Sunday ordered the retrial of Muslim Brotherhood  leader Mohamed Badie and other prominent members from the group after new evidence arose from a February 2015 ruling. State news agency MENA reported  that the retrial relates to a case in which “Badie and 14 others were handed life sentences for incitement to [...]

Palestine asserted in an application submitted to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday that the recent relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem constitutes a breach of international diplomatic law. In support of its claim, Palestine directed the ICJ to multiple UN General Assembly and Security Council Resolutions affirming the [...]

The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution Friday that calls for an independent mechanism to collect evidence of the serious international crimes committed in Myanmar. The resolution reflects a council decision to “establish an ongoing independent mechanism to collect, consolidate, preserve and analyze evidence of the most serious international crimes and violations of international [...]

The United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution calling on Venezuela to accept humanitarian assistance and requesting a comprehensive report on the country’s human rights situation. The Council called on the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to accept assistance “in order to address the scarcity of food, medicine and medical [...]

Judge Theodor Meron of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals withdrew Thursday from appellate proceedings in the case of former Serbian president Radovan Karadzic. The decision came two days after lawyers for Karadzic filed a motion seeking Judge Meron’s recusal based on what they argued was an appearance of bias. In the motion filed [...]

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 [...]