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A Stockholm court put Google's Shopping bill at 14.3 billion kronor and found the abuse ran past 2017
On 1 July 2026 the Patent and Market Court in Stockholm ordered Google to pay PriceRunner about 14.3 billion kronor in case PMT 1860-22, rejecting mos
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Sixty six jurisdictions cleared the Paramount takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. A US court has it frozen
Paramount Skydance said on 6 August 2026 that bodies representing 66 jurisdictions had cleared or declined to challenge its takeover of Warner Bros. D
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The General Assembly backed the World Court's climate opinion 141 to 8, but the reparation test is narrow
UN News reports the 20 May 2026 vote as 141 to 8 with 28 abstentions. The opinion it recognises was unanimous, the fifth unanimous advisory opinion in
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World Court ends a fourteen year ILO deadlock: Convention 87 protects the right to strike, ten to four
On 21 May 2026 the International Court of Justice answered the International Labour Organization's question in the affirmative, then refused to define
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Lebanon abolished the death penalty on 11 August 2026, the second Arab League state to do it, after Djibouti
Parliament replaced capital punishment with life imprisonment, ending a 22 year moratorium and stripping the penalty from 41 legal provisions. On the
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Turkey's foreign minister says the Mecca pact copies NATO's committees, not its nuclear cover
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey signed the Makkah Joint Defence Agreement on 7 August 2026, agreeing an armed attack on one is an attack on all. Hak
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The Hormuz safe route is an Iran to Oman arrangement, and tankers are still being hit
Esmail Baghaei said on 15 August 2026 that Iran and Oman had agreed a safe route through the Strait of Hormuz, following a 5 August accord on coordina
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Colombia's deadliest earthquake since 1999 was 110 kilometres deep, and that spread the damage
USGS data put the magnitude 7.4 quake under San Jose del Palmar on 10 August 2026 at 110.3 kilometres depth, inside the subducting Nazca plate. Deaths
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Venezuela's official quake toll is 6,301, and its official missing count is still 157 from June
Jorge Rodriguez put the toll from the 24 June 2026 doublet at 6,301 dead and 73,356 hospitalised on 10 August. The official missing count was last upd
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Ceuta arrival counts range from 40,000 to 75,000 and reported deaths from 67 to more than 80
Spain, Morocco and the EU never agreed how many people crossed into Ceuta on 30 and 31 July 2026, how many returned, or how many died. The one documen
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A rival party sued and Russia's Supreme Court struck Yabloko's list, not its district candidates
On 10 August 2026 Russia's Supreme Court cancelled the federal list of Yabloko, the only party on the ballot campaigning to end the war, on a lawsuit
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Spain's longest totality on 12 August was about 1 minute 50 seconds, not the 2 minutes 18 quoted
NASA puts greatest eclipse at 17:45:53.8 UT with 2 minutes 18.2 seconds of totality and a path 294.0 kilometres wide, at a point in the Atlantic west
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The Nature black hole star paper was posted as a preprint 17 months earlier, and rivals dispute it
Naidu and colleagues published "A gas-enshrouded and gas-reddened black hole at cosmic dawn" in Nature 656, pages 329 to 333. The same work appeared o
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Romania lost all its nuclear power on 13 August after the Danube fell three centimetres too low
Cernavoda Unit 1 shut on 28 July and Unit 2 on 13 August, taking about a fifth of Romania's generation offline. Explosives, dredging and rock laden ba
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