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The flight scheduled for yesterday, on which the first group of illegal immigrants was to be deported from the UK to Rwanda, was canceled due to a last-minute intervention by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.more

A Government minister has insisted that a first deportation flight taking refugees to Rwanda will go ahead next week, despite last-ditch attempts to stop it.more

A concerted effort is under way to position Ireland as a centre for international dispute resolution. While the potential for Dublin to become an international legal hub has been talked up in the wake of Brexit, efforts to turn that vision into a reality will gather pace today with the opening of the inaugural Dublin International Disputes Week (DIDW).more

The Assembly of the Republic, the unicameral parliament of Portugal, approved the laws on decriminalizing euthanasia proposed by four left-liberal groups in a vote on Thursday.more

A New York federal judge gave the go-ahead to the trial against Kevin Spacey, whom actor Anthony Rapp accused of sexual assault when Rapp was still a teenager. The trial begins on October 4. The decision came one week after the British Crown Prosecutor's Office announced that it had approved a prosecution against Kevin Spacey for four cases of sexual assault.more

A supermarket employee has won £50,000 in compensation after he was fired for sending a joke text about a knife to his manager.more

The UK government says it is not "currently considering" copying European Union plans for a common charging cable. more

The first hearing planned for yesterday in the trial of the former heads of football organizations FIFA and UEFA Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini did not take place due to the malaise of one of the accused.more

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein will be charged with two counts of indecent assault against a woman in London in the summer of 1996. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge the 70-year-old after a review of evidence gathered by the force.more

Doctors must report any suspected case of monkeypox under new rules, it was announced today. more

Plans to raise the legal smoking age to 21 and impose new taxes on tobacco firms are expected to be revealed this week. more

More than 6,000 undocumented people in Ireland have applied for a special Government scheme to regularise their status in the country. more

The Independent Monitoring Authority for the Citizens’ Rights Agreements (IMA) has launched an inquiry to establish whether the Home Office has fulfilled its obligation to issue a Certificate of Application immediately to EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) applicants.more

The documents provide new clarity about a much-talked-about but until now opaque process Amazon uses to punish associates it believes are wasting time. more

Gun stores in Canada are recording a sharp increase in sales, Canadian media reports. The increase is explained by the government's introduction of a bill restricting access to firearms. Canada's constitution does not guarantee the right to own a gun.more

Jim Fitton was arrested at Baghdad airport on March 20 after airport security discovered the items in his luggage.more

Ryanair has been accused of racial discrimination for making South African nationals take a general knowledge test in Afrikaans to prove their nationality before being allowed to board its flights in the UK and the rest of Europe.more

Criminal acts of violence at GP surgeries across the UK have almost doubled in five years, new figures reveal, as doctors’ leaders warn of a perfect storm of soaring demand and staff shortages.more

French media say France and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema has dropped his appeal against a conviction for complicity in blackmail in a sex-tape case.more

New York's state legislature has put forward 10 bills to tighten control of firearms. The state of New York already has some of the strictest laws in this regard in the US.more

Some Ukrainian refugees who have found work in the greenhouses of the Westland are being exploited by a Polish staffing agency and Dutch employers, union CNV has claimed.more

New rules have come into force banning businesses in Scotland from providing single use plastic items such as cutlery, plates and stirrers.more

The "27" agreement agreed on the first day of the EU summit in Brussels assumes that the EU will give up 90% of Russian oil imports. The remaining 10 percent will be supplied by the southern section of the Druzhba pipeline, whose maintenance was fought for primarily by Hungary. However, this is to be a temporary solution.more

British pub chain Greene King was giving away beer for free yesterday after it found it could not sell it - as it had intended - at the 1952 prices when Queen Elizabeth II ascended the throne, or six pence a pint.more

Already 27 MPs of the UK's ruling Conservative Party have publicly declared that they want a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson as leader. That's half the required number for such a vote to take place.more