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The Supreme Court of South Korea ruled on Thursday in favor of a same-sex couple concerning the recognition of their union. The plaintiff’s same-sex partner, who had become an employed subscriber in 2016, submitted a notification of the plaintiff’s eligibility for dependent status in the National Health Insurance system. Attached was a personal guarantor’s certificate [...]

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of Vietnam filed a claim to the UN’s Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) to extend the limits of its underwater continental shelf in the South China Sea, according to a statement published by the ministry on Thursday. In its statement, the ministry asserted that Vietnam [...]

Zimbabwe’s governing party ZANU-PF is responsible for 65.4 percent of the 137 human rights violations in Zimbabwe for June, the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) confirmed in its monthly monitoring report on Wednesday. This marks the fourth month in a row that ZANU PF has been the leading perpetrator of human rights abuses in the country, [...]

The security chief of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was arrested Wednesday, less than two weeks before the country’s presidential election, the Vente Venezuela political party said on X (formerly Twitter). Milciades Ávila, the security chief of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, was arrested in the early morning when government officials forcibly entered the [...]

A Vietnam court sentenced Facebook user Pham Van Cho to seven years in prison and two years of probation for his allegedly anti-state propaganda posts on Tuesday. The police of the Hung Yen province arrested Phan Van Cho in January and decided to prosecute him on January 29. According to local media, Pham Van Cho [...]

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced Wednesday that French security forces detained a far-right extremist in eastern France on suspicion of organizing attacks during the Paris Olympics, in a statement made on X (formerly Twitter). The accused far-right extremist was the administrator of the “French Aryan division” group on the Telegram phone application, where he [...]

Egyptian security forces have detained 119 people, including at least one child, since the start of July for participating in anti-government protests, human rights advocacy organization Amnesty International reported Thursday. In recent weeks, frustrations about price hikes and power cuts have fueled demonstrations and calls for revolution against the government of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah [...]

Six people were killed in Bangladesh and hundreds injured on Tuesday during the ongoing students’ protest against the government job quota requirements for children of Bangladesh freedom fighters, according to local media. The government has ordered the indefinite closure of schools and colleges while the country is engulfed in deadly protest. The protest sparked in [...]

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond submitted an appeal to the US Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday. The appeal challenges a court order against a preliminary injunction that halts the controversial anti-illegal immigration House Bill 4156 in the state. The preliminary injunction, which was issued last month, prevented Oklahoma from enforcing the bill. The appeal [...]

US Navy on Wednesday exonerated 256 black sailors who were convicted of mutiny and disobeying orders following the naval base explosion at Port Chicago, California around 80 years ago. The explosion was the deadliest disaster on US soil during World War II, with 320 dead, 390 injured, and damage forty-eight miles across the San Francisco [...]