Aylo, the company which runs a number of pornographic websites, including Pornhub, is to stop operating in France from Wednesday. It is in reaction to a French law requiring porn sites to take extra steps to verify their users’ ages. An Aylo spokesperson said the law was a privacy risk and assessing people’s ages should...
The law does not directly cover what to do in the event of an accidental double touch, and Ifab said referees had “understandably” been penalising players up to this point. However, the board said Law 14’s primary purpose was to deal with deliberate double touches and a clarification has now been issued to all national...
Getty Images Many South Africans are deeply attached to their land South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is at the centre of a political firestorm after he approved a law that gives the state the power to expropriate some privately owned land without compensation for owners. The law, which is yet to be implemented, has drawn...
Jean Mackenzie Seoul correspondent Watch: Lee Jae-myung speaks behind bulletproof glass at a campaign rally The striking feature of this election has been the leading opposition candidate, Lee Jae-myung, campaigning in a bullet-proof vest. At a recent rally, he was escorted to the podium by close protection officers, ready to shield him with their ballistic...
I see it every day. Feminist advice for the current regime. Don’t, under any circumstances, have children right now. No matter how the regime tries to bribe you, no matter the social pressure, no matter what the vice president says, no children. I have no argument against this, it’s perfectly sound advice. With patriarchal fascism...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. For several years, Amy Stelly has been partnering with the Louisiana State University School of Public Health in New Orleans to monitor air quality next to the Claiborne Expressway, a busy highway that runs northwest of the city’s iconic French Quarter....
A group of UN human rights experts is raising alarm over a recently-passed Israeli law that allows children as young as 12 years old to be sentenced to life in prison, saying that the legislation is likely a violation of international human rights law. The experts say that the law, passed late last year, is...
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed an online child safety bill that requires Apple and Google to ensure that their app stores verify the age of users in the nation’s second most populous state. Under the new law, minors will need parental approval before they can download apps or make in-app purchases. The bill was...
French MPs have voted to allow some people in the last stages of a terminal illness the right to assisted dying. The National Assembly approved the bill, which is backed by President Emmanuel Macron, by 305 votes to 199. It will now go to the upper house, the Senate, before a second reading in the...
Fake discounts, pressure selling, and other practices on Chinese fast-fashion website Shein breach the law, the European Union (EU) has said. The bloc said it has given Shein one month to respond to its findings or face fines based on its sales in the EU countries where it says it has breached the law. “It’s...
Former England captain Michael Vaughan Injury replacements should be permitted in Test cricket in the first innings of the game. There should be an independent doctor on site. If the doctor deems a player unable to carry on playing, you should be allowed a sub. It should only be in the first innings. If you...
“Fullest” has a specific meaning in federal prosecutions of murders. Right? Earlier this morning, Attorney General Pam Bondi addressed the press about the horrific assassinations of two young Israeli embassy workers overnight. Bondi personally reviewed the crime scene, and says the federal government will assert jurisdiction in the prosecution of Elias Rodriguez. Bondi promised to...
It took a weekend, but the shoe finally dropped on LaMonica McIver … even if it got picked up for Ras Baraka. After nearly inciting a riot in front of an ICE facility in Newark, Rep. McIver will now face felony charges after reportedly refusing a deal with US Attorney Alina Habba: Rep. LaMonica McIver...
There’s more than one way to skin a cat, as the old saying goes. And with the Trump administration’s deep bench of on-the-ball heavy hitters, there’s more than one way to get around recalcitrant sanctuary states’ insufferable righteousness, and active interference in immigration enforcement while protecting the worst of the border jumpers in the name...
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters its third year, Ukraine’s left-wing community is continuing its work fighting both neoliberalism and Russian aggression. Sotsialnyi Rukh or “Social Movement” is Ukraine’s largest and oldest democratic socialist organization. Founded in the aftermath of the Euromaidan protests of 2013-14, Sotsialnyi Rukh has held steadfast to its principled leftist politics...