The Kansas Supreme Court issued two decisions on Friday striking down a series of abortion rules and restrictions that reaffirmed its 2019 decision that the state constitution guarantees the right to terminate a pregnancy. In its first opinion, the Kansas Supreme Court upheld the district court’s decision. The court reaffirmed that Section 1 of the [...]

Venezuela’s 8rd National Prosecutor ordered the investigation of claims by Colombian paramilitaries that they were approached to destabilize the government of President Nicolás Maduro, Attorney General Tarek William Saab announced Friday. According to Maduro, the alleged plan was aimed at creating the impression of a “civil war” in Venezuela on July 28, the day of the [...]

The Tunis Court of First Instance sentenced lawyer and columnist Sonia Dahmani Saturday to one year in prison following public comments she made about the country refusing sub-Saharan African migrants coming from Europe, local media reported. The comments were made on the television channel Carthage+, when she sarcastically asked, “What extraordinary country are we talking [...]

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled on Friday to reinstate the use of secure ballot drop boxes for the 2024 US elections, reversing a prior ruling from 2022 by the court’s then-conservative majority that had banned this method for returning absentee ballots. The appellants argued that the state Supreme Court wrongly decided a 2022 case that [...]

A Madrid court postponed Begoña Gómez’s testimony on Friday in the corruption case against the prime minister’s wife, according to reports in local media. The court agreed with Gómez’s defense legal team that she hadn’t received a valid notification for another complaint brought against her by Hazte Oír (“Make Yourself Heard”), a far-right advocacy. She [...]

The Federal Parliament of St. Kitts and Nevis on Friday voted to pass the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill, which introduces fundamental changes to the freedom of information framework under current legislation and will codify key improvements that will enhance the government’s operational efficiency, promote transparency in the rule of law and limit, if not [...]

The Central Election Commission of Albania (CEC) removed Alfred Beleri, the ethic Greek Mayor of Himara, from his position on Friday following his imprisonment on charges of vote-buying during the 2023 local elections. The Central Election Commission of Albania made the move during its latest session by invoking Law 138/2015, which stipulates that the verification [...]

The Montreal Police Force dismantled a pro-Palestine encampment on Friday which had been situated in Victoria Square, located in the financial district of Canada’s second-largest city. The police acted under orders of the City of Montreal, which is headed by Mayor Valérie Plante. Plante said that a municipal bylaw which prohibits unauthorised use of public spaces [...]

Former Philippines senator Antonio Trillanes IV filed a criminal complaint of graft and plunder against former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Friday. Duterte is embroiled again in another legal battle since leaving office. This follows an earlier investigation by the International Criminal Court into alleged crimes against humanity linked to [...]

Pakistan’s Punjab government proposed a ban on all social media platforms for six days, citing security concerns during thousands of religious processions starting next week from July 13-18, according to a Thursday notice from the Ministry of Interior. The ban proposal concerns the religious parade taken out by the minority Shi’ite Muslims of the country on [...]