Bloomberg Myanmar’s de facto leader and noble laureate Aung San Suu Kyi addressed the International Court of Justice on Wednesday to deny allegations the country’s military had committed genocide against minority Rohingya Muslims. The small Muslim-majority nation of Gambia that brought the case against Myanmar had laid out a detailed and graphic case a day earlier, saying thousands of Rohingya ...

Bloomberg A century after the UK saw its first female member of Parliament, one political party is adopting non-traditional “guerrilla tactics” in its attempts to advance the debate over gender in British politics. The Women’s Equality Party is embracing its position as a non-partisan “political startup” of 35,000 members ahead of Thursday’s general election and using its small but media-savvy ...

Bloomberg Poland’s government plans to place new restrictions on judges, ignoring concerns by the European Union and its own Supreme Court that it’s eroding the rule of law. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told Gazeta Polska newspaper on Wednesday that his cabinet is analyzing regulations to ban judges from engaging in political activities or opposing the government. The move would escalate ...