Southeast Asia

Burma: Suu Kyi bars Rohingya investigation

De facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi rejected a decision by the UN Human Rights Council to investigate crimes by Burma's security forces against minority Rohingya Muslims.

North America

States challenge Trump’s revised travel ban

Massachusetts has joined Washington, Hawaii, Oregon, and New York in suing to block President Trump's revised travel ban as unconstitutional under the Equal Protection clause.

New York City

NYPD reaches new deal in surveillance lawsuit

The New York Police Department reached a new settlement providing greater oversight of intelligence-gathering programs, after a federal judge rejected an earlier deal.

Central Asia

Anti-terror ‘security state’ in Xinjiang

The Uighur people of China's Xinjiang province are coming under unprecedented surveillance and militarization amid official fears of terrorism in the far-western region.

North America

Trump admin’s Hungarian fascist connection?

Trump assistant Sebastian Gorka wears the medal of the Hungarian Order of Heroes, listed by the State Department as having collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.

North America

White nationalist to National Security Council

With a constitutional crisis looming over Trump's "Muslim ban," white nationalist mouthpiece Steve Bannon has been named to the inner ring of the National Security Council.

North America

Court issues stay on Trump immigration order

A Brooklyn federal judge blocked Trump's order barring immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries, as activists occupied JFK and several other US airports.