With 233 beds arranged as 217 non en-suites and 16 studios, Green Wood Court has achieved a 100% occupancy rate for the academic year 2022/2023 The freehold Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (“PBSA”), Green Wood Court, is located just a few minutes’ walk from the University of Southampton’s Highfield and Bolderwood campuses with established connection links to […]
Venezuelan diplomat Dwight Sagaray (center) attends on April 7, 2014 at the high-court in Nairobi, his trial for the murder of former acting Venezuelan ambassador to Kenya, Olga Fonseca in July 2012. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP) NAIROBI – A Kenyan court on Wednesday found a Venezuelan diplomat guilty of murdering the Latin American nation's acting […]
Uvalde and Highland Park mass shootings survivors, families and supporters rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, calling for stricter gun controls on July 13, 2022. (OLIVER CONTRERAS / AFP) NEW YORK – Since the US Supreme Court overturned a New York law limiting the concealed carry of handguns in public areas, there has been […]
A screen shows the ceremony in which Norma Lucia Pina prepares to take the oath as president of the Supreme Court of Justice while speaking on a television screen in the press room of the Supreme Court building in Mexico City, Mexico Jan 2, 2023. (HENRY ROMERO / REUTERS) MEXICO CITY – Mexico's Supreme Court […]
This undated photo shows Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez. (PHOTO / BLOOMBERG) BUENOS AIRES – Argentina's leftist President Alberto Fernandez has sparked a battle with the country's top court and something of a legal crisis after he said he would reject a ruling it made to give a larger proportion of state funds to the city […]
Thousands march along Market Street during the annual Gay Pride parade in San Francisco, California on June 28, 2015, two days after the US Supreme Court's landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. (JOSH EDELSON / AFP PHOTO) WASHINGTON – The US Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would protect federal recognition of same-sex marriage, […]
Cardinal Angelo Becciu attends the consistory inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on Aug 27, 2022. (ANDREW MEDICHINI / FILE / AP) VATICAN CITY – A court at a Vatican corruption trial on Thursday heard a secretly recorded telephone call between the main defendant, embattled Cardinal Angelo Becciu, and Pope Francis. Reporters were asked […]
This photo shows the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Feb 7, 2019. (FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP) PARIS – The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday ruled that France must re-examine repatriation requests from two French women who traveled to Syria with their partners to join Islamic State, and the […]
In this file photo taken on Aug 22, 2022 Angolan opposition party National Union for the Total Independence of Angola leader and presidential candidate, Adalberto Costa Junior, gestures as he delivers a speech during the UNITA final campaign rally ahead of general elections, in Luanda. (JOHN WESSELS / AFP) LISBON – Angola's main opposition party […]
A sign displays mask wearing information at Penn station in New York on Aug 2, 2021. (KENA BETANCUR / AFP) WASHINGTON / BERLIN – A group of 23 state attorneys general led by Florida told a federal court on Monday that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacks the legal authority to impose a nationwide […]
US Marshals patrol outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in Chevy Chase, Md, June 8, 2022. (JACQUELYN MARTIN / AP) WASHINGTON – The US Supreme Court’s top security officer has asked Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to enforce laws barring picketing outside the Maryland homes of high court justices, saying protests and “threatening […]
A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at a walk up vaccination site in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. (DAVID PAUL MORRIS / BLOOMBERG) PARIS / LOS ANGELES / ADDIS ABABA / WASHINGTON – A US appeals court panel said on Monday it would convene a full panel to […]
People protest about abortion outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 25, 2022. (STEVE HELBER / AP) WASHINGTON/JACKSON, Mississippi – Hundreds of protesters descended on the US Supreme Court on Saturday to denounce the justices' decision to overturn the half-century-old Roe v. Wade precedent that recognized women's constitutional right to abortion. The sweeping ruling […]
President Joe Biden signs into law S. 2938, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act gun safety bill, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington pn June 25, 2022. First lady Jill Biden looks on at right. (PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS / AP) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the […]
Supporters of abortion rights attend a rally in Washington, DC, the United States, on May 14, 2022. (LIU JIE/XINHUA) WASHINGTON – The US Supreme Court on Friday overturned Roe v Wade, a landmark decision that established a constitutional right to abortion in the nation nearly 50 years ago. "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start," […]