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A Zimbabwean court on Monday denied bail for the third time to Hopewell Chin’ono, a journalist who was arrested last month on charges of inciting public violence over anti-government protests. Chin’ono, used Twitter to support anti-corruption movements and exposed corruption in the government tenders for COVID-19 personal protective equipment. He also criticized President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s [...]

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A split US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit refused Tuesday to review a trial judge’s orders that paused a challenge to New Jersey’s ban on three-dimensional gun printing. The court found that the orders could not be appealed because they were not final. Attorneys general from several states initiated civil and criminal proceedings [...]

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The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs launched a consultation on Tuesday seeking input on whether the government should introduce a new law that would require businesses to ensure that the “forest risk” commodities they use have been produced legally. Almost half of all recent tropical deforestation is due to the illegal conversion [...]

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The Supreme Court of Belarus on Tuesday rejected a complaint filed by former presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya that sought to initiate criminal proceedings against the country’s Central Electoral Commission (CEC) for approving the outcome of the countries recent presidential election and for the election’s result to be annulled. The Belarusian presidential elections took place earlier this [...]

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The Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis released a plan Tuesday to address climate change. In its press release, the Senate Democrats stated that “the new report—which comes after dozens of hearings, meetings, and input from experts, labor unions, mayors, environmental justice leaders, and native communities, among others—details how bold climate action from [...]

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New York Attorney General Letitia James filed suit Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against Donald Trump, in his capacity as President, Louis Dejoy, in his capacity as Postmaster General, and the US Postal Service (USPS). Joined in the complaint as plaintiffs are the states of Hawaii, New Jersey, and [...]

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The Supreme Court of Chile on Monday rejected a request from the US for the extradition of Carlos Cardoen Cornejo. The Chilean businessman is being accused of illegally exporting Zirconium metal between August 1982 and October 1989. This metal was allegedly used for manufacturing cluster bombs, which were used by the Iraqi airforce against Iran. [...]

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A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion for summary judgment on Tuesday vacating a time-in-service requirement for non-citizens who qualify for US citizenship based on their service in the US military. On October 13, 2017, the US Department of Defense (DOD) adopted a policy requiring non-citizen service [...]

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New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a motion in state court on Monday to compel the production of documents from the Trump Organization as well as testimony from its key personnel, including Eric Trump, the president’s son. The motion is part of an ongoing investigation launched into Donald Trump and the Trump Organization’s finances in [...]

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A circuit judge in Florida on Monday invalidated an emergency order requiring “brick-and-mortar” schools to reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic. This order granting a temporary injunction is the result of a lawsuit filed by Florida Education Association (FEA), Florida’s largest teachers’ union, seeking to prevent the reopening of schools and resuming of in-person instruction. Judge Charles [...]

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