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Yemenis sue top US defence contractors for ‘aiding war crimes’

A group of Yemeni nationals has filed a lawsuit in the US against defence contractors Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and General Dynamics, accusing them of "aiding and abetting war crimes and extrajudicial killings" by supplying arms to the Saudi-led coalition's war in Yemen. The lawsuit, filed in the district court of Washington DC, also names the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, Mohammed bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed, respectively, as well as US Secretary […]

today4 March 2023

International

US Muslim inmate wins second chance in religious freedom lawsuit against jail

A US federal court has partly undone a decision made against a Muslim inmate, ruling that a Virginia jail must defend its practice of broadcasting Christian services on every television screen on Sundays, which the inmate argues is a violation of the Constitution's freedom of religion clause. The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit stated the case should return back to the district court for reconsideration. The court cited the […]

today19 January 2023

International News

US probing NJ town over mosque denial

The US Department of Justice has opened an investigation on a New Jersey city's rejection of a planned mosque, a spokesman confirmed on Tuesday. The US Attorney's office in New Jersey, in conjunction with members of the department's civil rights headquarters in Washington, DC, is examining whether officials in Bayonne, New Jersey, properly denied plans to build a mosque, according to Matthew Reilly, a spokesman for the office. The Bayonne […]

today31 May 2017

International News

Dawabsha family sues Israel for compensation over deadly Duma arson

Relatives of the Dawabsha family, three of whose members died in an arson attack committed by Israeli settlers in 2015, filed a lawsuit on Monday against the state of Israel seeking compensation for the murders. The high-profile attack sparked outrage in July 2015, when extremist Israeli settlers set fire to a house in the northern occupied West Bank village of Duma, killing 18-month-old Ali and his parents Riham and Saad […]

today9 May 2017

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