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Pakistan swore in its first woman Supreme Court judge Monday in what is being hailed as a landmark moment in the historically male-dominated judicial history of the Muslim-majority nation. Ayesha Malik, 55, took the oath at a ceremony in the capital Islamabad that…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was on Monday given permission to appeal against a decision to extradite him to the United States. Washington wants to put the 50-year-old Australian on trial in connection with WikiLeaks’ publication of 500,000 secret military files relating to…

The UK government and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) are set for a court battle over a story the broadcaster wants to air which would reportedly identify a spy. The Telegraph has reported that the programme would reveal the identity of the intelligence…

President Biden on Wednesday announced eight judicial nominees, including Nusrat Choudhury, who would be the first Muslim woman to serve as a federal judge. Choudhury, currently the legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, has been tapped to be a…

Austria’s lower house of parliament passed a bill on Thursday making COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory for adults as of Feb. 1, bringing Austria closer to introducing the first such sweeping coronavirus vaccine mandate in the European Union. Faced with a stubbornly high number…

A 26- year-old Muslim woman Aneeqa Atteeq has been sentenced to death by a court in Pakistan for allegedly sending blasphemous messages on WhatsApp and Facebook. She was found guilty of insulting Islam’s Prophet Mohammed. According to reports, she met her accuser online…

German ex-chancellor Angela Merkel has said no thanks to an offer of a job with the United Nations, her office said on Wednesday, as she settles into retirement after 16 years in power. UN sources confirmed that Secretary General Antonio Guterres had…

The US Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by former president Donald Trump to block the release to a congressional committee of documents related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Citing executive privilege, Trump had sought to prevent the records…

British Airways has joined a host of airlines cancelling U.S. flights due to 5G safety concerns. The action is in response to fears that the activation of the C-band strand of the mobile phone service near U.S. airports on Wednesday could disrupt…

Hours after it was reported that Alberta’s justice minister had called Edmonton’s police chief to discuss a distracted driving ticket he was given, Premier Jason Kenney announced he was removing Kaycee Madu from the cabinet post, pending the outcome of a probe…