On Thursday, the UK High Court overturned a 2022 law that allowed businesses to hire temporary agency workers to fill staffing gaps because of strike action. The law repealed trade union laws that restricted employment businesses from hiring temporary agency workers to fill positions. This law applied across all sectors – including education. The High [...]

In a statement to the press on Saturday, the UN Security Council called for fighting to stop in Sudan in the name of civilian protection. “The fighting has to stop,” said Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations and President of the Security Council for the month of [...]

A public prosecutor in Tunisia on Friday appealed the decision to release opposition figure Chaima Issa from prison, according to local news. As a result, Issa was not able to leave prison on Friday. Issa’s lawyer told local news that the decision came after a counter order was given to the public prosecutor. He emphasized that [...]

The Spanish Ombudsman initiated an ex offcio action on Friday in relation to a rubber boat carrying migrants capsized 40 miles off the coast of Morocco on June 21st. The rubber boat was carrying 60 people, including children, heading to the Canary Islands and resulted in the death of more than 30 migrants. The Canary [...]

Deputy National Police Chief Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn told state news on Friday that four Thai individuals have been extradited to Malaysia and were charged with trafficking and smuggling individuals from Myanmar. This case and prosecution relate to the May 2015 discovery of human trafficking camps and mass graves found in 2017 in Wang Kelian [...]

UN Human Rights spokesperson Jeremy Laurence stated on Friday that countries need to investigate and prosecute people smugglers and human traffickers after 400 to 750 migrants were on a fishing boat that capsized 50 miles from Pylos, a southern coastal town in Greece. The disaster resulted in 78 people deceased and 104 survived, but many [...]

The National Education Union (NEU) announced on Saturday that teachers in England will be striking nationally on the 5th and 7th of July due to “inadequate” pay. The strike action would result in many schools fully or partially closing. The NEU are demanding pay increases that are above the current UK inflation rate, extra bonuses [...]

Prosecutors in Kraljevo, Serbia began an investigation on Friday into three Kosovo officers who were controversially detained by the Serbian border control. The officers were arrested on Wednesday, and Serbian authorities are investigating whether they committed “nauthorized production, possession, carrying and trafficking of weapons” while active on the Serbia-Kosovo border. Kosovo’s Justice Minister Albulena Haxhiu [...]

Argentinian Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas asked Argentinian authorities and Interpol on Thursday to arrest four Lebanese men and have one extradited to Argentina to stand trial for their association with the deadly bombing at the Argentine Jewish Mutual Aid Society in July 1994 where 85 people were killed. The attack was considered an act of terrorism, [...]

Police in Leipzig, Germany on Saturday broke up a protest orchestrated by left-wing groups involving over 700 people over the sentencing given to one of four far-left activists who attacked Neo-Nazis over a period of two years. More demonstrations are expected despite local court bans on protests. Protestors set up roadblocks, threw projectiles and started [...]