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South Korea’s Second Vice Minister of Health and Welfare Park Min-soo announced Monday that the government has begun administrative actions against some 7,000 medical residents who have not returned to work despite the government’s earlier order.  Park Min-soo said that the government’s punishment measures include suspending the trainee doctors’ medical license for 3 months, delaying their [...]

South Korean police raided offices of the Korean Medical Association (KMA) on Friday. The raids come as walkouts by junior doctors in Seoul have continued despite backlash from the South Korean government. According to South Korean news site Yonhap News, police reportedly carried out raids on offices of the KMA in both Seoul and the [...]

“Where there were great military actions, there lies whitening now the jawbone of an ass.” Saint-John Perse (French poet, 1887-1975) As film, the core importance of “Oppenheimer” lies in its messages on human survival. The personal, emotional and romantic aspects of the film are captivating, to be sure, but they are less consequential than any [...]

The US Supreme Court left in place an admissions policy at an elite public high school in Virginia on Tuesday after the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld the admissions practice. The plaintiffs in the case argued that the school’s policy discriminates against Asian Americans. Justice Samuel Alito dissented from the majority [...]

The Manipur Police announced Thursday that approximately 300-400 people attempted to storm the offices of the Superintendent of Police in response to the firing of an ethnic minority police officer, leading to the deployment of tear gas, as tensions hit an all time high among rival ethnic groups in the region. The clashes erupted between [...]

Beijing Second Intermediate People’s Court sentenced Dr. Yang Hengjun, an Australian writer, to a suspended death sentence on Monday. The sentence can be reduced to a life sentence after two years of good behaviour. Penny Wong, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, expressed that the Australian Government is “appalled” by the decision and that the government [...]

The US Supreme Court on Friday denied an anti-affirmative action organization’s emergency application to block the US Military Academy, known as “West Point,” from using race in its admissions process. In September 2023, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), the group that recently won the significant case of SFFA v. Harvard, challenging the constitutionality of race-based [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit declined to block a preliminary injunction on Monday, allowing the US Military Academy in West Point to continue to consider race as a factor for admission. This decision comes as the US Supreme Court considers the issue in a pending appeal brought by Students for Fair Admissions [...]

Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) requested on Friday that the Supreme Court block the United States Military Academy at West Point from using race as a factor in applications while its lawsuit makes it way through the lower courts. SFFA is the same group that sued Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, which led [...]

Belarusian law students enrolled at European Humanities University are filing reports with JURIST on current circumstances in Belarus under the constitutionally-disputed presidency of Alexander Lukashenka. Katsiaryna Vasilionak files this dispatch from Vilnius, Lithuania.    A decree on passports that came into effect late last year has effectively stranded tens of thousands of Belarusians living abroad who [...]