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A scheme to deport undocumented migrants from the UK to Rwanda to process their asylum applications is legal, the UK's High Court ruled on Monday. This is a significant, if incomplete, victory for the British government,more

More than a third of executions in the US have been carried out in an improper or highly problematic manner this year, according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). In Alabama, the procedure for injecting the deadly substance took three hours - the longest in the history of the country.more

The court ordered the town halls of Beziers and Beaucaire to remove the Christmas crèches located in the main courtyards of the town halls of these towns, citing the principle of secularism.more

Canadian electronic intelligence is analysing what threats the use of TikTok may pose to the country's security, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced yesterday.more

Passengers at most airports to be allowed two-litre containers of liquid, in major relaxation of 2006 rules.more

Single-use plastic items including cutlery, plates and polystyrene cups are reportedly to be banned in England by the UK government after a consultation.more

A group of 90 Ukrainian judges are undergoing training organized by the UK in the conduct of war crimes trials committed by Russian soldiers, the Attorney General of England and Wales Victoria Prentis has announced.more

The Estonian doctors, family doctors, infectious diseases and nurses' association of Estonia supported in a joint statement granting school nurses the right to vaccinate "students who are able to reason independently, even if their parents do not agree," Postimees reported.more

The vaccine affair, the Uber lobbying, the current corruption scandal are damaging the credibility of the EU institutions. Brussels is confronted with calls for more transparency. Similar calls have been made before, with the Covid-19 vaccine procurement scandal or the Uber Files scandal.more

The Spanish government plans to donate up to 150,000 euros to small and medium-sized companies that decide to take part in the pilot project of reducing the working week from five to four days.more

Future generations of New Zealanders born after 1 January 2009 will not be able to buy cigarettes for their entire lives under a package of new anti-smoking laws passed in New Zealand's parliament yesterday. These are among the strictest such laws in the world, Reuters reported.more

The UK today imposed sanctions on 12 senior Russian military officers responsible for attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure and on an Iranian drone engine manufacturer, its director and two other Iranian officials.more

Fewer than 100 people who crossed the English Channel in small boats have been arrested for arriving illegally in the UK under a new power to deter them. more

A lawsuit regarding a foreign currency loan can only be filed in the court competent for the consumer's place of residence. Thanks to this, frankers will wait much shorter for the verdict – informs "Dziennik Gazeta Prawna".more

Sexual harassment on the street will be made a crime with jail sentences of up to two years, the government has said. more

Citizens of the United Arab Emirates enjoy the greatest freedom when it comes to traveling around the world. This is the conclusion of the latest ranking of the "power" of passports. Poles, however, are also in a privileged group. The Polish passport took 3rd place in the ranking, ex aequo, among others with an American passport.more

The government has announced what it describes as one of the biggest overhauls of financial regulation for more than three decades. It says the package of more than 30 reforms will "cut red tape" and "turbocharge growth".more

The UK today announced sanctions against 30 individuals and entities from 11 countries over human rights violations, conflict-related sexual violence and corruption. Half of those targeted by sanctions are citizens of Russia and Iran.more

The House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill codifying the recognition of same-sex and racially mixed marriages in US law. The act was intended to ensure that such marriages would continue to be recognized regardless of any future Supreme Court rulings.more

The European Commission has adopted a draft regulation to harmonise rules on the origin of a child in the EU. According to it, the origin of a child established in one Member State will be recognised in the others without a special procedure.more

In the Netherlands, GPs will be able to prescribe abortion pills to women wishing to terminate their pregnancies, the upper house of parliament decided yesterday. Until now, the pills could only be ordered from abortion clinics.more

New Zealand authorities have launched a court battle over the custody of an infant whose parents are refusing to undergo life-saving surgery over fears that a blood donor may have been vaccinated against Covid-19, AFP reported.more

The leader of the British opposition Labor Party, Keir Starmer, has announced that he will abolish the House of Lords within his first term as prime minister. He has a good chance of doing so, as Labor is clearly leading in the polls.more

Employees are to get the right to request flexible working from the moment they start a job under new government legislation, in a move welcomed by unions, who urged ministers to go further in terms of making such arrangements the norm.more

A Russian oligarch has been arrested at his multi-million pound London mansion on suspicion of money laundering, the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) reported yesterday.more