DUBLIN A group of British and Irish lawyers are seeking to challenge Britain’s decision to leave the European Union in the Irish High Court to try to establish if Brexit can be reversed once divorce talks have been triggered. British Prime Minister Theresa May has said she wants to invoke Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty by the end of March, kicking off up to two […]
DUBAI // A cook convicted of working as a prostitute must serve his six-month jail term, a Dubai court has ruled. Two unemployed Emiratis, aged 21 and 29, were sentenced in June to six months in jail each for having consensual sex with the cook. One of them appealed the decision, but the Dubai Court of Appeals upheld it. On November 30 last year, police received a […]
In this part of the world, the debate is not just theoretical. Terrorism is an everyday reality, and the role that Facebook and other social media sites may play in inspiring it generates deep emotion. Israel has pushed to combat online provocation that it links to bloodshed. Palestinians consider a crackdown on Facebook posts just another tool of repression by an occupying power. Continue reading the main […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s lawyer in Panama Papers case in the Supreme Court Babar Awan said Friday in a lighter mood that the hearing in PanamaLeaks case had been adjourned for a year and now hearing would be held in 2017. Talking to media persons outside the apex court, he made it clear that this did not mean that the accused in the case would go away somewhere […]
Your daily guide to community and cultural activities across the Emirates for December 10, 2016, including performances, festivals, art exhibitions, film screenings, health and fitness events, talks, classes, workshops and family fun. newslide Abu Dhabi Film screenings Enjoy two films as part of the Cinema Space screenings at Manarat Al Saadiyat. Tales of the Night is a 2011 family-friendly animated film by Michel Ocelot that tells six […]
By Nate Raymond | NEW YORK NEW YORK A Colombian butcher accused of working with members of the Venezuelan military to facilitate shipments of massive loads of cocaine from South America to the United States was sentenced on Friday to five years in a U.S. prison. Gersain Viafara-Mina, 50, wept as U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter in Manhattan imposed the maximum sentence he faced after pleading guilty […]
Google has updated Chrome web browser for Android on Dec. 6, and version 55 is now rolling out across the Play Store. The update to the Google Chrome browser for Android increases its functionalities comprehensively. The updated Chrome 55 (55.0.2883.84) also brings stability and performance fixes and new features galore. We check out the new features and functionalities that version 55 of Chrome for Android brings users’ way. Reduces […]
JERUSALEM — After years of obfuscation and a high-profile dispute concerning an esteemed New York rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump, Israel’s rabbinical authorities announced this week that they would convene to establish clear criteria for recognizing Orthodox conversions done abroad. The rabbis also said that under the new criteria, Ms. Trump’s conversion, which had been in some doubt in Israel, likely would be considered legitimate. More broadly, […]
A court ruling in a Brooklyn divorce case is the latest example of judges rejecting attempts by litigants to serve complaints and summonses via Facebook. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Sunshine this week refused a woman’s request to serve her husband with a summons for divorce through Facebook. The wife said she couldn’t find another […] (via WSJ)
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday adjourned hearing of the Panama papers leak case against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his family for holding undisclosed offshore assets till January next year. When the court will resume hearing, the new Chief Justice (CJ) Mian Saqib Nisar, who will take oath on Dec 31, will form a new larger bench to hear the case. The case will be heard […]
Law Blog rounds up the morning’s legal news: Brexit challenge: The U.K. Supreme Court isn’t seeking to overturn Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, the court’s top judge said, as four days of hearing in a high-profile legal challenge to the government’s Brexit approach came to a close. [WSJ] Undocumented immigrant bail: The Missouri […] (via WSJ)
Over 1,000 Russian athletes engaged in “unprecedented” systematic doping according to major findings from the World Anti-Doping Agency. Unveiling the second part of its report into drugs abuses, Wada’s chief investigator Richard McLaren said the findings confirmed “doping that took place in Russia on unprecedented scale” in summer and winter sports. “Over 1,000 Russian athletes can be identified as having benefited from manipulations to conceal positive doping […]
Good morning. Regrets laced with irony Glenn Beck is sorry. He really is. He swears. He’s sort of like Miss Otis in Cole Porter’s oft-recorded 1934 “Miss Otis Regrets” (I’ll take Bette Midler’s version). She “woke up and found that her dream of love was gone, madam.” And, them, “from under her velvet gown, she drew a gun and shot her lover down, madam.” In this case, […]
Microsoft now officially owns LinkedIn, a popular social networking platform geared toward employers and professionals. The multi-billion acquisition first made headlines in June, and the European Commission has given the acquisition a go-ahead earlier this week, joining the approval of other regulators around the globe, including those in the United States, Canada, Brazil, and South Africa. “This deal will allow us to keep growing, investing in and innovating […]
Last Updated On 09 December,2016 02:46 pm Imran Khan was talking to media outside Supreme Court after the hearing of the Panama Papers case. ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan on Friday has said that there is no need to form a commission over the Panama papers case as the party wants the five-member bench of Supreme Court (SC) to give final verdict […]
DUBAI // An unemployed man who tried to leave a criminal past behind asked a court to not consider his record after he admitted to attempted theft. The 44-year-old Emirati pleaded guilty at Dubai Criminal Court to attempting to steal a safe containing valuables worth thousands of dirhams in August but said he had tried to be a law-abiding citizen. “I had a previous criminal record, then […]
AMSTERDAM A verdict is expected later on Friday in the hate-speech trial of Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who was quoted in a newspaper earlier in the day as saying that the judgment was irrelevant. Wilders was tried on charges of inciting discrimination and hatred at a 2014 gathering, when his supporters chanted they wanted “Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!” Moroccans in the Netherlands. A smiling Wilders concluded: “we’re going […]
Relegated to the backbench of the UK parliament, George Osborne has a great deal more time on his hands after the very public failed Brexit ‘Remain’ campaign. The former British chancellor is using the downtime to investigate why a wave of populist nationalism is currently sweeping across the world – and how it managed to bruise his political career as well as that of former prime minister […]
The bromide says all politics are local. But if examined closely, state politics are looking quite national these days. Some independent groups ensconced in offices around D.C. and New York have been running their own shadow campaigns to affect the outcomes of races for governor, legislators, state supreme court justices and more around the country. Overall, independent political groups such as these have taken on a larger […]
Brexit may have come at the most fortunate time for the GCC. As the Gulf seeks greater support to fend off security risks in the region, including Iranian actions, and avenues to shore up bilateral trade in replacement of lost oil revenues, the UK is reaching out to old friends in a bid to strengthen non-mainland European relationships. “We will make it a priority, when the UK […]
Two days after the Mayor of Dallas, Mike Rawlings, filed a lawsuit against the Dallas Police and Fire Pension system to block withdrawals, which he referred to as a “run on the bank” of an “insolvent” pension system in “financial crisis, the Pension’s board has finally taken steps to halt further withdrawals. Of course, this delayed action has come only after $500 million in deposits have been […]
By Jack Kim and Cynthia Kim | SEOUL SEOUL South Korean President Park Geun-hye, engulfed in an influence-peddling scandal, faces a historic impeachment vote in parliament on Friday that could see her become the country’s first democratically elected leader to be ousted from office. Parliament is expected to vote in favour of impeachment, with support from some members of Park’s conservative Saenuri Party, but the Constitutional Court […]
Arkansas’s highest court ruled that gays and lesbians who are married but not biologically related to their kids don’t have a constitutional right to be included in the children’s birth certificates. The gay=rights case is the latest legal reverberation from last year’s Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell vs. Hodges that declared same-sex marriage a constitutional […] (via WSJ)
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan has said that they want the decision of the Panama Papers Case by the current bench of the Supreme Court. Talking to media in Islamabad on Thursday evening, he said that the hearing of the case be made on daily basis and there is no need of special commission in this regard. Third-party Ads (via Google News)
