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    Jurist Class action suit over Brazil dam collapse begins in England

    The trial for a class action lawsuit against Anglo-Australian multinational mining company BHP began on Monday in England, with 620,000 claimants seeking damages for the collapse of a tailings pond dam in Brazil that killed 19 and released 50 million cubic metres of toxic waste into the...
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    Jurist Pakistan parliament approves constitutional amendment amid judicial independence concerns

    The National Assembly of Pakistan approved the 26th Constitutional Amendment Bill on Monday, with international groups voicing concerns about its erosion of judicial independence in the country. The amendment modifies Article 175 of the Constitution, introducing a selection process for the...
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    Jurist Guatemala journalist released on house arrest after two years in pre-trial detention

    Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora, founder of elPeriódico, was released from prison this Saturday after spending more than two years behind bars in pre-trial detention. Zamora, who has been a vocal critic of government corruption through his investigative reporting, was transferred to...
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    Jurist Opposition lawyer and party official killed in Mozambique amid post-election tensions

    A lawyer of a prominent Mozambique opposition politician, along with an opposition party official, were killed by gunfire on Saturday, following a recent election that was marred by allegations of electoral fraud and intimidation against opposition parties. Elvino Dias, the first victim of the...
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    Jurist Israel Foreign Minister pledges legal action against France arms embargo

    Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz announced on Sunday that his ministry will take legal and diplomatic measures against the banning of Israeli companies from a major defense exhibition in Paris by Emmanuel Macron. Under international law, Israel could pursue legal measures through the World...
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    Jurist Japan ruling party headquarters and PM’s residence attacked

    A 49-year-old man named Atsunobu Usuda reportedly threw several firebombs at the headquarters of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the Nagatacho district of Tokyo’s Chiyoda Ward and rammed a van into a barricade at the nearby Prime Minister’s office on Saturday. According to local...
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    Jurist ‘Nightmare in Gaza is intensifying’: UN peace envoy for Middle East

    UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland said Sunday that, “the nightmare in Gaza is intensifying,” highlighting an “ever-worsening humanitarian crisis.” Wennesland condemned ongoing attacks on civilians, asserting, “nowhere is safe in Gaza.” He called for an...
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    Jurist North Korea condemns formation of US-led sanctions monitoring team as ‘unlawful and illegitimate’

    North Korea Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui condemned the recent formation of a US-led multilateral sanctions monitoring team on Sunday, calling it “utterly unlawful and illegitimate”. In a statement released by North Korea’s state-run newspaper Rodong Sinmun, Choe warned that the countries...
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    Jurist Europe rights court rules Italy did not violate convention by keeping man with AIDS in prison during COVID

    The European Court of Human rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Italy did not violate the rights of a man with HIV (which had possibly developed into AIDS) by keeping him in a general prison and exposing him to the risk of catching COVID-19. The applicant was a man born in 1997 who lived in...
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    Jurist Italy court rules against first asylum seeker transfer to Albania

    An Italian court on Friday ruled against the detention of asylum seekers sent from Italy to Albania for processing, stating that the refugees’ home countries are not considered safe enough for a possible return. The decision follows the transfer of 12 migrants from Italy to Albania on...
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