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Somalia announces plans to implement direct universal suffrage by 2024 – JURIST

Somali officials announced Sunday that the country would institute a direct one-person-one-vote democracy by 2024. This comes after years of attempts to achieve direct universal suffrage, first passed by the Somali legislature […]

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Economy

A new wave of mass migration has begun

Last year 1.2m people moved to Britain—almost certainly the most ever. Net migration (ie, immigrants minus emigrants) to Australia is currently twice the rate before the covid-19 pandemic. Spain’s equivalent figure recently […]

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Kosovo police fire tear gas at Serb protest against appointment of Albanian mayors – JURIST

On Friday, police in the northern Kosovo city of Zvecan fired tear gas at protests opposing the appointment of ethnic-Albanian mayors. The action injured 10 people as local Serbs gathered in front […]

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Banks

Qred Becomes Europe’s Newest Bank, Boosting Small Business Financing

Swedish fintech Qred has bagged a full banking licence, paving the way for its expansion into new European markets. With its AI-powered financing platform, Qred has issued over 100,000 loans to small […]

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Germany expert commission releases report recommending legalization of early-stage abortion and amended laws for later-term pregnancies – JURIST

The Commission on Reproductive Self-Determination and Reproductive Medicine in Germany on Monday submitted a final report recommending the legalization of abortion within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in the country.The German […]

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Australia judge rules in defamation trial that former government adviser raped a colleague in parliament – JURIST

Australia Federal Court Justice Michael Lee found that former government adviser Bruce Lehrmann raped a colleague in a Parliament House office on Monday. The judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit Lehrmann brought against […]

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Poland classifies attack on humanitarian aid workers as murder, demands Israeli cooperation in investigation – JURIST

The Polish government on Friday labeled the death of Polish aid worker Damian Soból as murder, following the deaths of seven humanitarian aid workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK) serving in […]

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Amnesty International urges immediate investigation into war crimes in Merawi, Ethiopia – JURIST

Amnesty International asserted Friday that African and global human rights bodies must urgently investigate alleged war crimes committed by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) in the town of Merawi, Amhara region, […]

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