U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner has dismissed Republicans’ challenge against a state law that obligates Pennsylvania to accept military and overseas ballots cast without requiring proof of identification. The case concerned Pennsylvania’s Uniform Military and Overseas Voters Act that allows overseas and military voters to mail in ballot...
AMSTERDAM (AA) – Major technology companies, defense contractors, and retail chains are under increasing scrutiny and facing boycott campaigns for their direct and indirect support of Israel’s war on Gaza, amid escalating concerns regarding corporate complicity in genocide. As part of Anadolu Ajansi’s series ‘Silent Supporters of Israeli...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A national court in Bangladesh on Sunday issued arrest warrants for 17 police officers, including the former Dhaka Metropolitan Police chief, on charges of mass killing and crimes against humanity. The International Crimes Tribunal stated that it found prima facie evidence of genocide against all the accused offi...
Two men have pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the killing of Sikh businessman Ripudaman Singh Malik. Malik had been previously acquitted of the 1985 Air India bombing that killed 329 people. At the time of the bombings, investigators blamed them on Sikh separatists widely believed to be seeking revenge for the Indian Army’s deadly [&h...
A federal judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to give up his valuable possessions and Manhattan penthouse. This decision follows Giuliani’s defamation of Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. Judge Lewis Liman said Giuliani must transfer the property within seven days. The women will control it and can sell it for a good price. [&...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Constitutional amendments approved by the Pakistani parliament to “regulate” some of the top judiciary’s powers on Monday prompted ire from the local and international legal fraternity, including the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). Deriding the passage of the 26th Constitutional Amendment into la...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s parliament passed legislation Sunday to regulate the country’s judicial system in a step that critics warn will “damage” the country’s constitution. The legislation, titled the 26th Constitutional Amendment Bill 2024, sailed through both the upper Senate and lower National...
The United States has charged a former Indian intelligence officer who allegedly directed a foiled plot to murder a Sikh separatist in New York City last year. An indictment of Vikash Yadav was ordered to be unsealed on Thursday, court records showed. Yadav was a former officer in India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) spy […]
A local court in Bangladesh has issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Hasina fled to India on August 5 on charges of crimes against humanity. The crimes were allegedly committed during mass student protests in July and August this year. The warrant was issued on Thursday by the International Crimes Tribunal [&helli...
The Hague (AA) – A group of 20 Palestinians have filed a criminal complaint with the Dutch Public Prosecutor’s Office against Israel for impeding and influencing an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) into the genocide in Gaza. The complaint came following the publication in May this year of an extensive investigation...
