International News

March 29, 2019

European Parliament votes to ban single-use plastics

On Wednesday, the European Parliament voted to ban single-use plastics. The new law bans certain single-use plastic items, such as plastic cutlery, plastic straws, and plastic […]
March 29, 2019

Jury Awards $80 million in Roundup Cancer Case

A jury awarded $80 million dollars to Edwin Hardeman. Last week, a jury attributed his non-Hodgkins lymphoma to using Roundup weed killer on his property for […]
March 29, 2019

Brexit: as parliament votes again, what happens next?

It was by all accounts a “sobering” meeting between the 27 EU ambassadors, the bloc’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, and the most senior of the bloc’s […]
March 26, 2019

MPs seize control of Brexit process by backing indicative votes amendment

MPs have inflicted a fresh humiliating defeat on Theresa May, voting to seize control of the parliamentary timetable to allow backbenchers to hold a series of […]
March 25, 2019

Russia’s ‘unnoticed’ efforts helped defuse Indo-Pak tensions

ISLAMABAD: When Pakistani fighter jets on the morning of February 27 hit back at India with air strikes, there was a genuine fear that the standoff […]
March 22, 2019

EU fines Google $1.7 billion for breaching antitrust rules

The European Commission called Wednesday for more efforts to ensure adoption of security proposals and fined Google €1.49 billion (USD $1.7 billion) for breaching EU antitrust […]
March 22, 2019

The “Charleston Loophole” and the Second Amendment

Edited by: Ashley Rundell JURIST Guest Columnist Jacob D. Charles of Duke University School of Law discusses a bill in Congress to close the “loophole” in […]
March 22, 2019

Harvard University sued for profiting on earliest known photographs of African-American slaves

Harvard University was sued Wednesday for allegedly profiting on the earliest known photographs of African-American slaves. In the complaint, plaintiff Tamara Lanier alleges that the slaves […]