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On the 6th of October Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in as the newest Justice of the American Supreme Court. After President Trump nominated him as a potential candidate earlier this summer, a psychology professor at Palo Alto University, Christina Blasey Ford, accused him in a confidential statement of attempting to rape her in the 80s, […]
A court in the western German city of Münster has ruled that the electric utility company RWE must indefinitely postpone its planned clearing of the 200-hectare (500-acre) Hambach forest, which has been a battleground between environmental activists and police for six years. Following a lawsuit brought by BUND, the German branch of Friends of the […]
Since 2016, the Aquarius search and rescue vessel, chartered by SOS Méditerranée and Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), has been operating in hazardous Mediterranean waters between Libya and Italy. Over the past two years, it has rescued almost 30,000 people. However, according to the Guardian, ‘the Aquarius is the last private rescue ship operating in the […]
Vocational training centres for Uighur Muslims have been written into the legislation of the Chinese region of Xinjiang. According to estimates cited by the UN there are approximately a million Uighur Muslims who have been forcibly interned in these centres. However, the governor of the Xinjiang region, Shohrat Zakir, quoted in a report by the […]
On the 6th of September 2018, section 377 (which criminalises consensual sexual activity between members of the same sex) of the Indian Penal Code was declared to be unconstitutional, by justice Indu Malhotra. The section was first drafted in 1830 by Thomas Macaulay, who was Secretary to the board of Control during the British Raj. […]
As the results of 3 years and 6,000 studies carried out by 90 researchers from 44 different countries, unveiled, in Incheon, South Korea, the brief immediately arose the readers’ interests, not much due to its scientific revolutionary content, but rather for its novel focus on behavioural change and its clear understanding of the role of […]