Edited by: James Joseph | Managing Editor for Long-Form Content The author, a Bar Course student from City University London (GB), explores why this election could redefine Britain’s future and how the major parties plan to win over the British public. On the 22nd May, UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak called an election for the [...]

Iran has announced an indictment targeting the US government and 73 military officials concerning the death of General Qassem Soleimani, according to Iranian state media reports on Sunday. Soleimani was killed in a drone strike ordered by former US President Donald Trump on January 3, 2020. Tehran’s judiciary chief announced that a 164-page indictment has [...]

The Economic Offences Unit of the Bihar Police in India arrested 5 more suspects in the NEET paper leak case on Sunday. This increases the total number of people detained in the case to 18. This development followed the filing of a First Information Report by the Central Bureau of Investigation, concerning the controversy around [...]

The Australian Federal Government announced on Monday that it would make the Food and Grocery Code of Conduct mandatory for Australia’s grocery giants, opening up the possibility of $10 million fines. The announcement comes as a direct response to a report by former labor minister Dr. Craig Emerson, who was tasked in January with leading [...]

Law students and law graduates in Nepal are reporting for JURIST on events in that country impacting its legal system. Smriti Pantha is a graduate of the Kathmandu University School of Law. She files this from Kathmandu. Chhaupadi is an age-old social malpractice in Nepal, predominantly observed in the Karnali and Far-Western Provinces. The term [...]

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday that Russia must abide by UN sanctions on North Korea, following an agreement between the two countries last week to provide military assistance to each other in case of military aggression. Speaking to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, Guterres stated that “Any relationship that any [...]

Feminists protested nationwide against the Rassemblement National (RN), a far-right political party in France, on Sunday, ahead of the legislative elections. Wearing purple, the official color of the Feminist movement, 130,000 people gathered in French cities to protest against the potential victory of the RN , which could seriously undermine women’s rights in the country. [...]

Canada’s Ambassador to China, Jennifer May, visited the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region from June 19 to 22, where she expressed concerns over documented human rights violations, according to a statement released Sunday by Global Affairs Canada. During the visit, May met with Xinjiang Party Secretary MA Xingrui and other senior officials of the regional government of [...]

Togo’s High Authority for Audiovisual and Communication (HAAC) announced the end of its suspension of accreditation for foreign news organizations, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Friday. The decision comes two months after accreditations were suspended, something RSF called “a flagrant violation of press freedom.” French journalist Thomas Dietrich entered Togo to cover the political unrest [...]

Prosecutors in France have charged a 19-year-old man and another, minor, youth in the vicinity of Paris with ‘terrorist conspiracy’ after they were found to be planning a militant terrorist attack on Jewish targets, a judicial source told Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Friday.  The teens, who met via social media, were allegedly planning a “violent [...]