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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday announced the commencement of production of lab-grown meat in the US. “The Agencies are today announcing agreement on a joint regulatory framework,” sais the release, “wherein FDA oversees cell collection, cell banks, and cell growth and differentiation. A transition from [...]

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The Venezuelan justice department in-exile sent a “red notice” to INTERPOL requesting the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro and a sentence of at least 18 years, three months in prison. The notice came with annexes including a physical description of Maduro and a statement of charges. The Supreme Tribunal of Justice in Venezuela in exile [...]

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The US Department of the Treasury on Thursday announced a set of economic sanctions against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last month. Khashoggi was a journalist who criticized the Royal House of Saud, allegedly prompting his assassination by Saudi agents in [...]

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Rosmah Mansour, wife of ousted Malaysian prime Minister Najib Razak, was formally charged Wednesday, along with three others, on two counts of corruption at the Kuala Lampur Sessions Court. Early last month Mansour pleaded not guilty to 14 counts of corruption and money laundering. Her husband was charged with similar crimes in July. These charges [...]

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Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Senatorial candidate in last week’s 2018 midterm elections, filed lawsuits over the weekend regarding the ballot-accounting debacle that has surrounded the election. Scott sued Susan M. Bucher, Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections, alleging that she “continues to store election equipment and ballots in an unsecured facility outside the view [...]

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The National Hockey League (NHL) on Monday announced that it had reached asettlement in a Minnesota court with a group of more than 100 former players who allege that they suffered a series of ailments as a result of their time playing in the NHL, including Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, ALS and CTE. The tentative settlement amount [...]

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The National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) in the Philippines on Thursday condemned the killing of human rights lawyer Benjamin Tarug Ramos, who was the organization’s Secretary General. “e was for the longest time the ‘go-to’ pro-bono lawyer of peasants, environmentalists, activists, political prisoners and mass organizations in Negros,” says the press release. “Ben is [...]

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Facebook admitted Monday that they “weren’t doing enough to help prevent our platform from being used to foment division and incite offline violence” in Myanmar. Facebook said that it had commissioned a nonprofit, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), to look into whether its platform had allowed for violent rhetoric, and that the organization’s findings concluded [...]

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