Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) reportedly started the process of confiscating the property of human trafficking suspects Tuesday on the directions given by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Sharif had directed the authorities to expedite the process in the first week of January. According to local newspaper DAWN, FIA has begun seizing the property under the [...]
The US House of Representatives voted 218-206 Tuesday to approve a bill that would ban transgender women from competing in women’s school sports teams. The bill bars persons deemed biologically male at birth from participating in school sports activities “designated for women or girls.” However, the prohibition does not bar transgender women from training with [...]
UK anti-corruption minister Tulip Siddiq tendered her resignation as Economic Secretary to the Treasury to Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday, citing ongoing publicity concerning her family ties to deposed Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina as a significant distraction from governmental duties. This comes after Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission filed criminal cases against Siddiq, Hasina, and four [...]
Apple appeared before the UK competition appeal tribunal for overcharging customers in a class-action lawsuit in a class-action lawsuit on Monday. Rachael Kent-Aitken, representing the claimants, brought the collective action through Article 47B of the Competition Act 1998, which allows a court-authorized representative to bring legal action that combines several individual claims into one ‘class [...]
A Ugandan military tribunal, in a self-referred “court martial,” added the charge of “treachery” against Ugandan ex-opposition leader Kizza Besigye, and his aide Hajji Obeide Lutale. The tribunal also added Captain Denis Ola, a serving Ugandan military general, to the charges. The charge of treachery falls under the heading of treason within s.23(3)(a) of the [...]
The Biden administration proposed new export restrictions on computer chips used for artificial intelligence (AI) on Monday. The restrictions are an effort to prevent other rival nations, from accessing and abusing advanced US technology. The Biden administration referred to its new regulation as “an Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion.” In its press release, [...]
A report by Special Counsel Jack Smith released Tuesday detailed the prosecutor’s rationale behind the election interference prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump. Released nearly two months after Trump’s federal charges were dropped, Smith’s report explained various decisions made during the prosecution effort and detailed its trajectory before ending due to Trump’s 2024 election victory. Smith [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case brought by the state of Utah seeking to assert state control over 18.5 million acres of federally owned lands, leaving in place a lower court ruling that upheld federal authority. The decision is a significant setback for Utah’s long-standing efforts to transfer ownership of [...]
Bangladesh’s Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday filed three lawsuits against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and six members of her family for irregularly obtaining land plots under the Purbachal New Town project, according to local media reports. The cases also involve 23 individuals, including officials from the Ministry of Housing and Public Works and [...]
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on Monday refused to hear the appeals of multiple oil companies which alleged that a negligence lawsuit against them violates the US Constitution’s separation of powers and federal common law. The two lawsuits, one led by Sunoco and one led by Shell, assert that the Supreme Court [...]
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