All news on the topic: Laws

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Farage vs. nature: why environmental experts are sounding the alarm
Mist gathers over a chalk stream at first light, the surface broken by rising mayflies. A barn owl drifts low over a hedgerow.
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Hungary prepares to approve constitutional amendment limiting freedom of assembly and LGBTQ rights
The controversial amendment also recognises only two sexes, providing a basis for denying other gender identities
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Nicholas Prosper’s deadly plan highlights gap in UK terrorism laws for young would-be shooters
Experts state that young men and boys ’with a strong sense of grievance’ are ’idolizing’ shooters involved in US massacres. They are also slipping through the gaps in UK terrorism laws.
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Murderers using strangulation or targeting ex-partners to face longer prison sentences
New laws to be introduced in England and Wales in attempt to reduce violence against women and girls
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Thailand’s anti-graft body begins new probe into troubled political opposition
Thailand’s anti-graft body on Friday said it was investigating 44 members of the disbanded Move Forward party, following a complaint seeking their lifetime bans from politics for backing legislation aimed at amending a law against royal insults.
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UK tourists ’boycott’ Turkey and rush to ’cancel holidays’ over new law
A controversial new law has been introduced in Turkey which has seen the government declare stray dogs can be rounded up and culled
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Spiking to be made specific offence in King’s Speech
The government is set to introduce a new law to make spiking a specific criminal offence in this week’s King’s Speech.
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Poland moves closer to easing abortion restrictions
The new Polish government has been struggling to reach a compromise on how to ease the country’s strict abortion laws.
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Kim Jong-un’s new draconian laws include phone police roaming streets and divorce banned
Kim Jong-un is trying to quash Western influence from his closed-off nation, with sources claiming two new draconian laws have been brought in to make lives more difficult
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Scotland’s recent hate crime legislation inundated police with nearly 4,000 unsubstantiated reports within just 24 hours
The Scottish Conservative shadow justice secretary cautioned that soon the volume of complaints would surpass the number of actual crimes.