UNITED NATIONS — The first UN independent investigator to visit the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay said Monday the 30 men held there are subject “to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.”

The investigator, Irish law professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, said at a news conference releasing her 23-page report to the UN Human Rights Council that the 2001 attacks in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania that killed nearly 3,000 people were “crimes against humanity.” But she said the US use of torture and rendition against alleged perpetrators and their associates in the years right after the

In Australia, family law dictates some important timelines to be aware of. If you have been in a de facto relationship, you have two years from the date of separation to finalize your financial settlement (also known as a property settlement). If you have been married, you have one year from the date your divorce has been granted (a divorce can only be applied for 1 year after the date of separation).

This illustrates how easy the timelines for people to financially separate can expand considerably. This is why reaching an agreement is important. And not just an informal agreement

• The ship that carried the Titan submersible before it descended arrived back in Canada on Saturday.

• Investigators boarded the Polar Prince and conducted interviews with those on board.

• The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is determining if it should open a criminal investigation.

Canadian research ship the Polar Prince, which lost contact with the Titan submersible

Meta Platforms Inc. said it will end the availability of news on Facebook and Instagram for all users in Canada after the country passed a law requiring digital platforms to pay local publishers.

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The Online News Act, which received parliamentary backing Thursday, is designed to ensure companies including Meta and Alphabet Inc. enter into financial agreements with news organizations, essentially forcing them to pay outlets for linking to news.

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The bill is based on similar legislation in Australia, which prompted Meta to temporarily restrict users from seeing news content and posting links to stories in that country in

In a recent decision, the High Court of England and Wales has found that Tesco’s use of the yellow and blue Tesco Clubcard logos (reproduced below) infringed Lidl’s trade marks (see the relevant Lidl marks below) and also gave rise to copyright infringement and passing off.

The supermarket chains have been in a battle over the use of their respective signs with a square blue background and yellow circle. For further information on the background to the dispute you can read our previous article here (Lidl Great Britain Limited v Tesco Stores Limited [2022] EWHC 1434 (Ch)).

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Fox News analyst Brit Hume believes Donald Trump’s excuse for taking classified documents from the White House were “on the verge of incoherent,” he told the conservative news network Monday.

Speaking with Bret Baier the afternoon clips of the former president’s now-infamous Fox News interview began airing, Hume criticized the former president’s reasoning for taking classified documents from the White House, storing them at him his Mar-a-Lago home and refusing to return them despite facing a subpoena from the Department of Justice. He emphasized that Trump’s defense of being “very busy” would not help him in court.

Watch Hume’s comments