UN experts on Friday expressed deep concern over the US government’s decision to reinstate Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism (SSOT), stating that the decision will have a devastating impact on the human rights of vulnerable groups in Cuba. The independent UN experts highlighted their previous communications where they raised concerns about the deteriorating humanitarian [...]
The Coroner’s Court in Northern Ireland ruled on Thursday that the use of lethal force by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in 1992 was “not justified” when it resulted in the killing of four members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). The judgment found that the SAS, a specialist British military force, did not [...]
Two major US federal employee unions filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging President Donald Trump’s systematic dismantling of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which the complaint claims has triggered a global humanitarian crisis. Established by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, USAID had served as America’s primary foreign assistance organization for over six decades. [...]
US President Trump signed an executive order Thursday sanctioning the International Criminal Court (ICC) for issuing warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant. The order imposes significant sanctions on ICC officials and their immediate families. Such sanctions include the blocking of property and assets as well as suspension of [...]
West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey, and 21 other states, sued New York Thursday over a new law requiring fossil fuel companies to contribute seventy-five billion dollars to a fund to pay for damages caused by climate change. McCuskey alleged that Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce through the Commerce Clause, and some [...]
The US District Court for the District of Columbia temporarily blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Wednesday from accessing sensitive data and systems within the Department of Labor until Friday. The order follows the lawsuit filed by a coalition of federal unions seeking to prevent the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data [...]
The US Department of Justice sued the state of Illinois, Governor J.B. Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, and other state officials Thursday over state laws that limit local law enforcement from aiding federal immigration authorities. The suit claimed that the state’s Way Forward Act and TRUST Act, Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance, and Cook County’s “Policy [...]
US District Court Judge George O’Toole Jr. issued an order Thursday afternoon blocking a buyout ultimatum issued by President Trump to employees of federal agencies shortly before that night’s deadline to accept the offer. The order stays a deadline set by President Trump for federal employees to decide whether to accept a “deferred resignation” offer [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) claimed Thursday that the US government’s decision to permit Lithium Americas to mine at Thacker Pass in Nevada violated Indigenous people’s rights by failing to obtain free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) in accordance with international law. The 133-page report determined that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) permitted the lithium [...]
Italy’s justice minister on Wednesday defended the decision to repatriate accused Libyan war criminal Osama Njeem, blaming an allegedly “flawed” arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC issued an arrest warrant for Njeem on January 18 for suspected crimes against humanity and war crimes against detainees in Libya from 2015 onwards. [...]
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