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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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Trump says he will declare the strait of Hormuz US territory, but no legal instrument exists
At a police training centre in Garden City, New York on 14 August 2026 Donald Trump said he would soon declare the Hormuz strait a territory of the Un
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Israel's defence minister ordered law enforcement over West Bank settlers handed to the police
Israel Katz said on 14 August 2026 he had told the military to draft a plan moving civilian law enforcement over Israelis in the occupied West Bank to
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NSW's biggest gun buyback in three decades starts on 2 November and the price list is published
A prime minister's office release on 16 August 2026 sets the New South Wales buyback start at 2 November, paying 1,000 dollars for revolvers and centr
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France's Constitutional Council voided the under-15 social media ban on breadth and on age checks
Decision 2026-911 DC, issued on 14 August 2026, censured Article 1 of the law adopted on 21 July 2026, calling the ban neither adapted, necessary nor
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Two federal courts found the White House ballroom unauthorised by Congress; it is now at the Supreme Court
On 7 August 2026 the DC Circuit ruled 2 to 1 that above ground work must stop because Congress has not authorised the ballroom. Solicitor General D. J
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Filed 27 July, briefed since 3 August: the Supreme Court has not ruled on the mail ballot order
Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a supplemental brief on 12 August 2026 urging the justices to act on an application lodged on 27 July and briefe
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A senator has put the USS Abraham Lincoln allegations in writing, and the Navy's denial is now specific
Senator Richard Blumenthal wrote to Pete Hegseth and acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao on 12 August 2026 demanding dates, authorisations and incident dat
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DNC's 2028 calendar opens in South Carolina and puts New Hampshire third, with $18.5 million of debt
The Democratic National Committee voted in Austin on 15 August 2026 for a 2028 early window running South Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico,
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Abdul El-Sayed won Michigan for the Democratic left, and in the same nine days it lost Wisconsin and St Louis
El-Sayed's narrow Senate primary win over Haley Stevens, reported on 5 August 2026, was billed as the left's breakthrough. Within a week David Crowley
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South Korea's president has offered to negotiate an end to the Korean War, and Pyongyang has said nothing back
In his Liberation Day address on 15 August 2026, President Lee Jae Myung proposed talks to end the war the 1953 armistice only paused and to discuss h
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The Supreme Court left Section 2 standing in Callais and changed what plaintiffs have to prove
Louisiana v. Callais, decided 6 to 3 on 29 April 2026, struck down the SB8 map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Justice Alito's majority dec
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Mississippi can still count mail ballots that arrive five days late, with Barrett writing and Alito dissenting
In Watson v. Republican National Committee, decided 5 to 4 on 29 June 2026, the Supreme Court reversed the Fifth Circuit and held that the federal ele
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Party committees can now spend without limit alongside their own candidates after a 2001 precedent fell
On 30 June 2026 the Supreme Court held 6 to 3 in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC that the coordinated party expenditure limits at 52 U
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The Supreme Court buried Humphrey's Executor on 29 June 2026 and exempted the Federal Reserve the same day
Trump v. Slaughter, No. 25-332, overruled the 1935 precedent by 6 to 3. Hours later, in Trump v. Cook, No. 25A312, the same Court refused by 5 to 4 to
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Prop 50's map beat a Republican and a Justice Department challenge, then a one sentence Supreme Court order
A three judge panel denied preliminary injunctions on 14 January 2026 by 2 to 1, finding the evidence of partisan motive overwhelming and the evidence
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Australia's biggest electoral funding overhaul in 40 years slipped to 1 January 2027 over one by-election
The Electoral Legislation Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 2025 got Royal Assent on 20 February 2025, and its funding and disclosure reforms were to s
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The EU's first Digital Services Act fine was about a blue tick, an ad archive and researcher access
On 5 December 2025 the European Commission fined X 120 million euros in the first non compliance decision under the Digital Services Act, citing Artic
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Two years after Snyder, federal corruption law covers bribes but not rewards, and the states have been left to fill the gap
The Supreme Court held in June 2024 that the statute barring state and local officials from accepting anything of value reaches bribes but not gratuit
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