Jared Ramos, accused of killing 5 people at the offices of the Maryland Capital Gazette in 2018 was sentenced Tuesday to 5 life sentences without parole, plus 345 years. The sentencing follows Ramos’ criminal conviction by a jury for the attack earlier this year. Ramos originally pleaded guilty but claimed insanity. This plea was soon [...]
The General Court of the European Union on Wednesday annulled two EU Council decisions regarding agricultural trade agreements with Morocco due to the lack of consent of affected local inhabitants in Morocco. The agreements concerned the disputed Western Sahara region. The first Council decision the court annulled concerned an agreement between the European Union and Morocco [...]
The Legislative Council of Hong Kong passed the Personal Data (Privacy) (Amendment) Bill 2021 on Wednesday. The law deals with “doxxing” which is the public release of information identifying an individual or organization. The Bill was introduced to the Legislative Council in July. The law empowers The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data [...]
The Philippines Senate voted unanimously in favor of a bill at its third reading on Monday, which will raise the age of sexual consent in the country to 16. The age a person can consent to sex in the Philippines under the current law is 12. The Philippines senate voted 22 in favor, 0 against [...]
An independent report published on Tuesday revealed that the World Health Organization (WHO) failed to prevent sexual exploitation during its response to the Ebola epidemic between August 2018 and June 2020. The Independent Commission on Allegations of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse during the Response to the 10th Ebola Outbreak collated data from interviews, field trips [...]
The Delhi High Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by Google LLC against the Competition Commission of India (CCI) after the CCI concluded that no confidential information was leaked and recommended the establishment of a committee to examine how such information came to be reported widely by news outlets. Google’s alleged in its petition [...]
Three more regional councils in Poland voted to repeal motions declaring their provinces “LGBT-free” areas on Monday, according to the state-run news agency Polska Agencja Prasowa (PAP). The southeastern regions of Podkarpackie, Lubelskie, and Małopolska join Swietokryskie in recanting the self-described designation. The moves come less than a week after the first polish region to drop the [...]
The US District Court for the District of South Carolina blocked the state’s mask mandate ban on Tuesday, determining that the mandate discriminates against children with disabilities. Proviso 1.108, implemented in May of this year, placed a ban on mandating mask-wearing for teachers and school children. It was written into the state school budget with [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit rejected a lawsuit against Google, Facebook and Twitter on Monday, concerning the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. Plaintiffs, a group of victims of the massacre, sought damages against the social media giants. The plaintiffs made two arguments. The first was that the companies violated anti-terrorism [...]
The UK Government announced on Monday that it will temporarily exempt the fuel industry from competition laws in response to the fuel crisis causing shortages across the country. Over the past week, a lack of delivery drivers interrupted the supply chain and caused mass petrol shortages. While the shortages were not due to an overall [...]
