Lawyers representing jailed Ethiopian opposition politicians say they are concerned for the lives of their clients, whose hunger strike has gone on for nearly a month and drawn international attention as they protest their treatment by the government.
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A federal court in Florida granted Pete Buttigieg and Elizabeth Warren’s motion to dismiss George Zimmerman’s libel and defamation suit relating to tweets the politicians made about the shooting of Trayvon Martin. The court dismissed the suit as a shotgun pleading and ruled Zimmerman failed to sufficiently allege an essential element of defamation.
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Three Cabinet ministers in Thailand were forced to leave their posts Wednesday after a court found them guilty of sedition for taking part in sometimes-violent protests in 2013-2014 against the government then in power.
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Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine says he will withdraw a legal petition that sought to overturn the victory of President Yoweri Museveni in last month’s presidential election.
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New Zealand’s parliament backed down Wednesday after ejecting a Maori lawmaker because he refused to wear a tie, allowing him to speak without an accessory he labelled a “colonial noose.”
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Former North Carolina Lt. Governor Dan Forest can sue over a 2012 political ad that favored his Democratic opponent, the state’s Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
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The prosecutors, defendants and co-plaintiffs have said they will appeal against the verdicts issued over the 2019 killing of a politician that sparked outrage in Germany and an attack on an asylum-seeker three years earlier, court officials said Thursday.
Read moreThe Eighth Circuit ruled that Missouri state Representative Cheri Toalson Reisch did not violate a constituent’s rights when she blocked on him Twitter, because she used the account “overwhelmingly for campaign purposes,” and the First Amendment prohibits “only governmental abridgment of speech.”
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A far-right extremist in Germany was convicted Thursday and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a regional politician who had advocated helping refugees — a brazen killing that shocked the country.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was working from isolation on Monday, a day after announcing
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Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has been admitted to hospital in Monaco after suffering heart problems, a spokesman and his doctor said Thursday.
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A Pew Research Center analysis of tweets by Australian, Canadian and U.K. politicians before and after the 2020 U.S. presidential election suggests the plurality of these lawmakers were relieved by President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over the incumbent Republican president, Donald Trump.
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Far-right demonstrators swarmed into Oregon’s Capitol last month, as legislators gathered for a contentious special session. New video shows a Republican lawmaker opened a locked door to let them in.
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The West Virginia lawmaker filmed himself in the insurrectionist siege of the U.S. Capitol this week.
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“It’s not death that scares me, but not being alive,” said Francois Mitterrand the day he passed away on January 8, 1996, eight months after stepping down as France’s president.
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Georgia Senator David Perdue said he did not intend “to ignite anything at all” when, as CEO and chairman of Dollar General in 2006, he approached private equity firms and spoke to them about the company.
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Former Tunisian presidential candidate and media mogul Nabil Karoui has been arrested on charges of money laundering and tax evasion, a Tunis court spokesman said on Thursday.
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A Moscow judge on Wednesday convicted a local opposition politician of multiple protest violations and imposed a two-year suspended sentence in a case seen by many as politically motivated.
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A Turkish court on Monday sentenced a prominent Kurdish former lawmaker who went on a months-long hunger strike to more than 22 years in jail on terror-related charges.
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A conservative Hungarian MEP and close ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orban apologized Tuesday after Belgian police caught him at a lockdown-busting party that local press described as an orgy.
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