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News China files WTO complaint against US over tariffs
China files WTO complaint against US over tariffs
Erik Slobe
April 6, 2018 11:02:42 am

China filed a complaint against the US with the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Thursday over US tariffs against Chinese goods. The complaint is a request for consultation , which is the first step in a...

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News AGs from 14 states file lawsuit against EPA over methane emissions
AGs from 14 states file lawsuit against EPA over methane emissions
Erik Slobe
April 6, 2018 09:59:35 am

The Attorneys General from 14states, led by New York Attorney General Schneiderman filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the US District Court for the District of Columbia over...

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News Massachusetts judges rules state can proceed with data breach lawsuit against Equifax
Massachusetts judges rules state can proceed with data breach lawsuit against Equifax
Sean Rohtla
April 6, 2018 08:49:39 am

The Suffolk County Superior Court in Massachusetts released a decision Wednesday, denying Equifax a motion to dismiss and allowing the commonwealth to move forward in its lawsuit against Equifax for its data breach . Equifax sought to...

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News Egypt court orders retrial in ‘foreign funding’ case
Egypt court orders retrial in ‘foreign funding’ case
Zachary Uram
April 6, 2018 08:37:44 am

Egypt's Court of Cassation on Thursday ordered a retrial for 16 out of 43 defendants who were charged with receiving illegal foreign funds without a license "for restricted activities against state policy." The defendants had received...

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News Guantanamo 9/11 detainee seeks vindication of right to create and distribute artwork
Guantanamo 9/11 detainee seeks vindication of right to create and distribute artwork
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
April 5, 2018 09:00:17 pm

Ammar al Baluchi , a forty-one-year old Pakistani national accused of helping to plan the 9/11 terrorist attacks, has filed a motion in military court requesting it to strike down the Defense Department's restrictions on...

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News Puerto Rico to allow birth certificates to reflect gender identity
Puerto Rico to allow birth certificates to reflect gender identity
Jessica Lasky
April 5, 2018 04:41:51 pm

Lambda Legal announced on Wednesday that Puerto Rico will modify current policies to allow transgender people to change their gender on identification cards following a federal court order . In the order, the court stated that "the...

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News Brazil Supreme Court allows former president Lula to be jailed
Brazil Supreme Court allows former president Lula to be jailed
Christopher Anderson
April 5, 2018 02:16:20 pm

After late-night deliberations, the Supreme Court of Brazil on Thursday allowed an arrest warrant for former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to go forward . Lula was convicted in July of corruption...

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News Former Catalan chief of police charged with sedition
Former Catalan chief of police charged with sedition
David Zwier
April 5, 2018 01:49:33 pm

Judge Carmen Lamela of Spain's National Court on Wednesday charged the former Catalan chief of police, Josep Lluís Trapero, with sedition for his role in the 2017 independence...

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News Pennsylvania judge distinguishes fracking from traditional mineral rights
Pennsylvania judge distinguishes fracking from traditional mineral rights
Erin McCarthy Holliday
April 5, 2018 01:43:11 pm

A Pennsylvania appellate judge on Monday distinguished the natural gas extraction practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," from conventional drilling property rights and held that fracking is not subject to the same "rules of capture." In a...

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News Europe rights court rejects German national’s challenge to conviction over use of Nazi symbols
Europe rights court rejects German national’s challenge to conviction over use of Nazi symbols
Ram Eachambadi | JURIST Staff
April 5, 2018 01:15:49 pm

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Wednesday rejected a complaint from a German national concerning his 2015 prosecution and conviction in a Munich court for the posting of a picture in his blog post of...

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Biological Weapons Convention goes into force

On March 26, 1975, the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on their Destruction went into force. Today, 162 countries have signed the Convention, pledging never "to develop, produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire or retain" biological weapons. Some signatory nations, however, have reserved the right to hold certain biological weapons for "prophylactic" purposes. Learn more about the UN Biological Weapons Convention.

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