NOV
1
2013

UN: religion no justification for harmful practices inflicted on women

He particularly highlighted the harm of forced conversion to a religion and forced marriage as a particular abuse inflicted upon women.

NOV
1
2013

U.S.: Health care law faces new challenge

The individual mandate, however, is still scheduled to be implemented as of January 1, 2014.

NOV
1
2013

Spain court convicts six Somali pirates for 2012 attack

The men, Mohamed Abdullah Hassan, Mohamed Aden Mohamed, Issa Abdullah Issa, Abdillahi Mohamed Gouled, Mohamed Said Ahmed and Hamoud Elfaf Mahou, were captured while attempting to take over a Spanish warship off the coast of Somalia in 2012.

NOV
1
2013

U.S.: New York to raise cigarette sale age

The new age limit includes electronic vapour cigarettes.

OCT
31
2013

UK: Press regulation royal charter given go-ahead by the Queen

The much-criticised response of the Press Complaints Commission to the phone-hacking allegations largely prompted the calls for an end to the current system of self-regulation.

OCT
31
2013

Germany to allow third gender option at birth

From 1 November, babies born in Germany without clear gender-determining physical characteristics will be able to be registered without a sex on their birth certificates, according to the report.

OCT
31
2013

Italian Senate to hold open vote on expelling Berlusconi

The decision has been the subject of intense wrangling, with the billionaire media magnate´s political enemies fearing a secret vote might allow him to escape expulsion through backroom dealings.

OCT
31
2013

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say

By tapping those links, the agency has positioned itself to collect at will from hundreds of millions of user accounts, many of them belonging to Americans.

OCT
30
2013

´We didn´t spy on the Europeans, their OWN governments did´, says NSA

Gen. Keith Alexander contradicted the news reports that said his NSA had collected data about the calls and stored it as part of a wide-ranging surveillance program, saying that the journalists who wrote them misinterpreted documents stolen by the fugitive leaker Edward Snowden.

OCT
30
2013

Spanish prosecutors begin probing U.S. spying allegations

The goal of the probe is to determine whether criminal acts were committed in light of what is known so far about the spying, an investigation should be opened into the matter and Spain has jurisdiction to prosecute.

OCT
30
2013

Russian investigators file new charges against opposition leader Navalny

It will also add to international concerns about selective, politically motivated justice in Russia.

OCT
30
2013

US intelligence chief Clapper defends spying policy

But he told the intelligence panel of the House of Representatives the US did not "indiscriminately" spy on nations.

OCT
29
2013

Alabama files new lawsuit over US health care law

The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, asserts that "the government should not be in the business of forcing people to violate their religious convictions."

OCT
29
2013

UK national indicted on charges of hacking US government systems

The indictment indicates that the attacks have cost US government agencies millions of dollars in damages. The alleged attacks took place between October 2012 and October 2013.

OCT
29
2013

Kuwait court upholds 10-year prison sentence for Twitter commentator

Al-Naqi was originally sentenced to 10 years in prison in June 2012 for posting insulting and defaming comments about the Prophet Muhammad and the Sunni Muslim rulers of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

OCT
29
2013

Obama may ban spying on heads of allied States

The White House informed a leading Democratic lawmaker, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, of its plans, which grew out of a broader internal review of intelligence-gathering methods.

OCT
29
2013

NSA ´monitored 60m Spanish calls in a month´

They say the NSA collected the numbers and locations of the callers and the recipients, but not the calls´ content.

OCT
29
2013

Indonesia politician grabs new headlines by banning monkey business

Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo has banned all such entertainment, reinforcing his image as a can-do politician cleaning up one of Asia´s most frenetic cities ahead of presidential elections next year in which voters expect him to run.

OCT
28
2013

UN rights expert urges laws supporting right to food

The Special Rapporteur also stressed that, while many nations have made progress, governments and civil society groups must do more to further entrench protections of the right to food into their respective legal frameworks.

OCT
28
2013

Guantanamo lawyer seeking declassification of CIA interrogation techniques

The letter, made public on Friday, calls upon Obama to make the details of the CIA´s rendition, detention and interrogation (RDI) program public.

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