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The high-profile case in Scotland of an allegedly transgender rapist who was jailed in a women's prison after legal gender reassignment has had a strong impact on the Scottish National Party (SNP), head of government Nicola Sturgeon and support for independence, according to opinion polls.more

In the opinion of 77 percent respondents, Poland should still exercise control over state forests in the country, and only 10 percent. would like the European Union to deal with this directly, according to a study by the Social Changes studio commissioned by the wPolityce.pl portal.more

The UK has slumped to its lowest-ever score in Transparency International’s global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).more

The owners of four flats overlooked by the Tate Modern in London have won a Supreme Court battle to stop visitors gawping through their windows "like being on display in a zoo".more

After almost three years of the coronavirus pandemic, the compulsory wearing of masks on buses and trains is being abolished throughout Germany. After several federal states have already abolished this regulation in regional transport, from today the masks will not be obligatory throughout the country, including in long-distance transport.more

A protest group has launched a campaign against 'half and half' bread which has seen loaves pulled from shelves in some supermarkets. more

An adult will be able to apply for a gender reassignment on the basis of their own written declaration - 113 MPs voted in favour of the controversial law in parliament today, 67 voted against.more

A highly toxic chemical compound sold illegally in diet pills is to be reclassified as a poison, a government minister has said. more

The EU has adopted a recommendation on an adequate minimum income. It presupposes combating poverty and social exclusion and aiming for high levels of employment by promoting a minimum income.more

The Scottish Government has announced an urgent review of its transgender detention guidelines. Until then, all transfers to women's prisons had been suspended.more

A 21-year-old British Army soldier, who remains on active duty, stood trial in London yesterday on two counts of committing acts of terrorism.more

The punishment of taking the life of the perpetrator of a crime has been applied since the beginning of the law. Currently, it is abolished in many countries, and in Europe it is performed only in Belarus. In Poland, the last execution, by hanging, took place in a prison in Krakow on April 21, 1988.more

Two Amazon workers said that the robots in the warehouse "are treated better than us".more

About 150 foreigners have been euthanised in Belgium in the last six years. Most of the patients came from France and were over 50 years old. They mostly suffered from a progressive neurological disease, such as multiple sclerosis or ALS, or were in the terminal stage of cancer, the Belgian agency reported.more

The sight of motorised vehicles could soon be a thing of the past in a large area of one London borough.more

A ban on the sale and use of laughing gas in England and Wales is being considered by the government. more

It may soon be illegal in the Netherlands to own dogs with flattened snouts or cats with lamellar ears. The Minister for Agriculture, Natural Resources and Food, Piet Adema, has announced a ban on owning and advertising animal breeds that have been created through modification. more

A transgender person who, while male, raped two women and then made a legal sex change will not serve time in a women's prison, Scottish Chief Executive Nicola Sturgeon announced yesterday.more

In a judgment delivered last Friday, the UK High Court cast doubt on the British citizenship status of children born in the UK before 2 October 2000 to those EU citizens who did not hold an indefinite residence permit at the time.more

The case of a transgender person who committed two rapes as a man but wants to serve time in a women's ward has heightened the controversy surrounding a law passed by the Scottish Parliament allowing legal gender reassignment on the basis of mere self-declaration.more

The UK Treasury said yesterday that it would look into the legislation that allowed Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the mercenary Wagner Group - despite the sanctions imposed on him - to take a British journalist to court.more

At least 42 British universities have entered into partnerships with institutions linked to hostile activities of the Chinese state, such as the Uighur genocide, nuclear weapons development, espionage, arms research or hacking, The Times revealed today.more

Two hundred minors, including one girl and at least 13 children under the age of 16, have disappeared from hotels where the British government places minors under the asylum procedure, Deputy Home Secretary Simon Murray reported. He added that 176 of the missing children were Albanian.more

"Medics who discourage vaccination will face medical courts. The case concerns 116 people. Applications to punish doctors concern the promotion of views inconsistent with current medical knowledge" - we can read on the website Prawo.plmore

Thousands of tradespeople face the prospect of huge bills following Sadiq Khan’s expansion of London’s ultra low emission zone (Ulez) because of a lack of compliant vans for sale, according to new analysis. more