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Polish farmers launched on Friday a 30-day nationwide protest in response to economic pressure on the country’s agricultural sector from the EU. The protest includes the blocking of roads around the country as well as the blocking of border crossings with Ukraine. It also involves general strikes throughout the agricultural industry. Over 250 protest actions [...]

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Following months of protests over rapidly rising inflation rates and economic turmoil in Sri Lanka, the government has imposed a series of repressive measures against its people. Officials were banned from expressing their own concerns about Sri Lanka’s beleaguered economy via social media platforms. Certain neighborhoods were subject to heightened security requirements which included an [...]

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) Monday charged Californian David Wayne DePape with federal assault and kidnapping for allegedly attacking Paul Pelosi, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband. Depape was arrested on Friday. The DOJ’s criminal complaint details that San Francisco Dispatch received a 911 call from Mr. Pelosi who stated a male named David, [...]

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Ukrainian law students and young lawyers are reporting for JURIST on national and international developments in and affecting Ukraine. This dispatch is from Anna Balabina, a law student at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.   Last week the Norweigan Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize to human rights defenders from three countries – Ukraine, Belarus [...]

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Six days prior to Hurricane Ian’s eventual landfall, meteorologists sounded the alarm about a potential impact somewhere on Florida’s west coast. The storm was originally forecast to strike Tampa Bay, but ultimately touched down just south near Fort Myers. Despite the unpredictability of its path, rapid legal action by state government agencies under Governor Ron [...]

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A Minnesota district court ruled Monday that state “abortion laws relating to mandated physician care, hospitalization, criminalization, parental notification, and informed consent are unconstitutional” under Minnesota’s State Constitution. The court found that nine Minnesota laws violated the right to privacy and do not withstand judicial scrutiny. Additionally the court found that the state’s parental notification [...]

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US Senate Intelligence Committee members Tuesday called for the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate social media platform TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance for invading the privacy of its users. The members accuse the companies of repeatedly allowing company engineers and executives located in China access to private US users’ data, despite [...]

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