Special prosecutor Jack Smith dropped two criminal cases against US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday, including his 2020 election interference case and an appeal in his classified documents ...
Louisiana's Republican controlled Legislature has approved a constitutional amendment that would empower legislators to expand the number of crimes in which juveniles between 14 and 16 years old can ...
Belarus has granted asylum to a former Polish judge following espionage charges in Poland. In a decree granting citizenship to 257 people from 16 states Friday, President Alexander Lukashenko stated ...
Form Content In 2023, a woman was killed every ten minutes by a partner or family member, a UN report said. While figures like this may seem ...
The Australian government opted to abandon proposed laws on Sunday requiring social media companies to regulate ...
Sonja Rzepsiki is a JURIST Senior Editor. She attended the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan as part of a group from the Vermont ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law on Saturday a bill that provides debt relief to recruits who sign up to fight in Ukraine and their spouses. Federal law No. 391 was previously passed ...
The United Nations (UN) said on Friday that Myanmar unprecedently has the highest number of civilian causalities from ...
William Hibbitts is JURIST's Deputy Editorial Director, based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He filed this dispatch from Halifax. The atmosphere in Halifax was marked by contrasts Saturday. On ...
Thousands of protesters gathered across French cities on Saturday to condemn femicides and sexual violence against women in light of the Pelicot trial and the victory of US president-elect Donald ...
Belarusian opposition activist Vasil Verameichuk has been detained in Vietnam and extradited to Belarus, where he faces accusations of terrorism and a possible death penalty, the opposition in exile ...
Albania's Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs on Friday condemned the deactivation of addresses of ethnic Albanian ...