World News by Wild Rose

Hong Kong authorities have said they will legislate against persistent sexual abuse of children and the act of sending images of genitals to others online without consent after consulting the public. In a consultation report published on Thursday, the Security Bureau stated that with the city’s two professional legal associations expressing broad support for a dedicated law targeting persistent child sexual abuse, the government would include the crime in an amendment bill overhauling sex...

Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has issued a withering rebuke to foreigners behaving badly in Thailand following a wave of scandals involving illegal businesses and landholdings including a cemetery, saying the cases have “gone too far” by breaching Thai law and hospitality. Facing mounting public backlash against illegal foreign ownership of swathes of the country enabled by endemic corruption, Anutin’s government has halved the visa-free entry period to 30 days for most countries and...

François Picard is pleased to welcome Andrew Weissmann, Author, Professor at NYU School of Law, and former General Counsel of the FBI. He argues that as political deception and deliberate falsehoods become normalized, and politically useful, it erodes any trust we have in our government and our institutions. Drawing on his book, "Liar’s Kingdom", Weissmann questions why political leaders are above the law in the United States, while ordinary citizens risk serious legal consequences for making intentionally false statements.

A new bill will remove references to banning the 'promotion' of homosexuality.

UK lawmakers on Friday voted down legislation to allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to choose to end their lives. The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was opposed by 286 members of parliament, while 270 voted for it. The vote brings an end to a two-year debate in parliament about assisted dying. On two previous occasions in 2024 and 2025, the elected House of Commons had backed the bill, but it did not become law because it was effectively filibustered by unelected...

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate lost their bid for release from a Miami jail on Wednesday as they contest extradition to Britain, where they are wanted on rape charges. In denying bail for the Tate brothers, Miami-based US Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis said the brothers’ wealth and frequent international travel made them “quintessential flight risks”. “While [the brothers] may not ‌in fact possess what extravagant holdings they portray themselves as possessing online, the record...

The court said the slogan was not merely an expression of religious belief but “incites the people for an armed rebellion”, and it cannot be equated with religious slogans

Eve Irvine is pleased to welcome Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange. According to Grange, the country’s reparations initiative attempts to shift the debate over British slavery from the terrain of political discretion to that of legal accountability. Rather than beginning with the question of what Britain should pay, Grange insists on a logically prior question: was the capture, transportation and chattel enslavement of Africans in Jamaica ever lawful in the first place? Jamaica’s petition therefore asks King Charles III, in his capacity as King of Jamaica, to refer three questions to the Privy Council concerning English law, international law and Britain’s possible obligation to provide a reparatory remedy.

The US mother was on trial for strangling her three children. In other western countries, there’s a specific law for mums who kill their young children.

The court said the law empowers only the Police Commissioner in Bengaluru and other commissionerate cities, the District Magistrate in other areas, and a Sub-Divisional Magistrate, if specially empowered, to pass externment orders

Judge says ensuring every person’s right to live with dignity, guaranteed under the Constitution, should be a priority for the government

Every day, on an average, more than 3,000 litigants visit the court complex in Vellore

Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has ordered the introduction of the death penalty for deliberately setting forest fires after a recent wave of blazes killed 12 people. The move comes as authorities investigate fires that erupted across several eastern provinces.

With the ban, de la Espriella moves closer to his campaign promise of resuming aerial fumigation of coca crops. The post Abelardo de la Espriella repeals law banning Glyphosate spraying in Colombia appeared first on Latin America Reports.