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Brazil has observed the anniversary of last year’s uprising in the capital when thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings and called for a military intervention to remove President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva...

The Clooney Foundation for Justice, established by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney and Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker George Clooney, announced the a new leadership team Tuesday that the Clooneys say will lead the global legal services nonprofit th...

The former head of Britain’s state-owned Post Office is handing back a royal honor in response to fury over her role in a miscarriage of justice that saw hundreds of postmasters wrongfully accused of theft

charged an Ottawa youth with terrorism for allegedly plotting an attack against the Jewish community. In Toronto, city councillor James Pasternak last week decried an “escalation of lawlessness in Toronto” after a Jewish-owned delicatessen was targeted by arson and graffiti.Between Oct. 7 and Dec.

By Andrew Goudsward and John Kruzel

Britain's biggest miscarriages of justice, the wrongful conviction of hundreds of Post Office workers due to faulty software, has exploded into the public domain following a TV drama, sparking demands for justice. In a more than 20-year scandal, some postal workers were sent to prison and others lost their livelihoods and homes.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League" video game will be launched on February 2 by Warner Bros. Games. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president David Haddad has called the game 'ambitious' projects, according to a report by Variety. «Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League» will be a free-to-play brawler video game 'MultiVersus'. In this video game, characters owned by Warner Bros will battle it out, as per the report.

(Reuters) -JetBlue Airways on Monday named Joanna Geraghty as its CEO, succeeding Robin Hayes who spearheaded the $3.8 billion acquisition of ultra-low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines (NYSE:SAVE)

By Nate Raymond

The Supreme Court has rejected Alaska’s bid to revive a proposed copper and gold mine that was blocked by the Environmental Protection Agency

Bilkis Bano said after the Supreme Court on Monday quashed the remission granted to 11 men convicted of raping her and murdering seven members of her family during the 2002 riots in Gujarat. While quashing the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission, the apex court also said the state government's order was «stereotyped» and passed without application of mind. In a statement issued through her lawyer Shobha Gupta, Bano thanked the top court for the verdict and said «today is truly the New Year for me».

Fujitsu software between 1999 and 2015. Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, indicated that Justice Secretary Alex Chalk might consider stripping the Post Office of its prosecution powers after more than 700 branch managers received unjust criminal convictions. A national outcry over the scandal has intensified, with over 700 branch managers facing legal consequences for apparent financial discrepancies caused by the defective software. The ITV drama, «Mr Bates vs the Post Office,» has further fueled demands for government intervention.

ISLAMABAD : Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday scrapped lifetime bans from contesting elections for people with past convictions, Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa said, giving Nawaz Sharif the chance to become prime minister for a fourth time. Sharif's party, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), is considered a frontrunner to win the election, scheduled for February 8, with his main rival, former prime minister Imran Khan, in jail and barred from contesting the polls for five years.

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) restricted it to a five-year term only. A seven-member bench, headed by Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa, on Monday ruled that no person can be barred for a lifetime from running in elections if they are disqualified under Article 62 (1)(f).

Bilkis Bano case: The Supreme Court of India on Monday quashed the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission and early release to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano rape case. The decision was hailed by many political leaders including Rahul Gandhi who called it a “victory of justice". Rahul Gandhi took to microblogging site X to hail Supreme Court's decision on Bilkis Bano rape case and said, “The tendency to 'kill justice' for electoral gains is dangerous for the democratic system.

After the Supreme Court’s verdict quashing the remission granted to the 11 convicted men in a case of the gangrape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of her family members, the family said it felt “relieved but not victorious”.

Congress has hailed the Supreme Court judgment quashing the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission to 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano case, saying it has removed the veil over the BJP's anti-women policies. Reacting to the ruling, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said justice has ultimately prevailed. "With this order, the veil over the anti-women policies of the Bharatiya Janata Party has been removed.

NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court on Monday issued a notice to the government seeking a response to a plea filed by online gaming companies on tax demands adding up to ₹1.5 lakh crore. The court, however, did not issue a stay on the tax notices issued by the government. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice D.Y.

Supreme Court on Monday invalidated the Gujarat government's decision to grant remission to 11 convicts involved in the Bilkis Bano gangrape and the murder of seven of her family members amid the 2002 riots in the state. The court asserted that the remission orders lacked thoughtful consideration, deeming them «stereotyped.» Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan, presiding over the bench, instructed the convicted individuals to surrender to jail authorities within a span of two weeks. In response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the remission, the bench deemed it maintainable and underscored that the Gujarat government was not the competent authority to issue such orders. Here's what the SC said The Supreme Court, while delivering the verdict, said, «We need not have gone into the other issues. But for sake of completion, we have. Rule of law is breached because the Gujarat government usurped power not vested in it and abused its power. On that ground also, the remission orders deserve to be quashed,» the bench said while pronouncing the judgement which spanned over 100 pages.

Read Bilkis Bano case LIVE updates The top court said that the State of Gujarat was not competent to to grant remission to 11 convicts sentenced to life term for the gangrape of Bilkis Bano and killing her family members during the 2002 Gujarat communal riots. A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan pronounced the judgement on Monday. The Supreme Court also pulled up the Gujarat government for passing remission orders in August 2022 in a cyclostyled manner, with no application of mind.

Bilkis Bano Case: The Supreme Court on January 8 held that the May 2022 order of another bench of the top court is null since it was obtained by fraud by the petitioner convict. It has quashed the early release of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case. All 11 will be sent back to jail.