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Supreme Court Limits Reach of UP Gangsters Act and Sets Aside High Court Stay

By limiting Section 12 to date clashes, the ruling stops accused from freezing unrelated trials, which preserves witness testimony and evidence.

Three Men Executed by Lethal Injection in Oklahoma, Tennessee and Alabama

Copper Cable Thefts Disrupt Rodalies Services Across Catalonia

Turkish Parliament Advances Conditional Amnesty Bill for Former PKK Members

Moraes Schedules STF Public Hearing on Lei Antifacção for 24–25 August

Government Introduces Bill to Criminalise Insult or Disruption of Vande Mataram

Sheinbaum Sends National Feminicide Law to Congress With Imprescriptible Penalties

Queensland to Impose Mandatory Jail for Youths Who Reoffend on Bail

Toledo Authorizes Lawyer to Seek Humanitarian Pardon

World Congress Against the Death Penalty Opens in Paris as Executions Rise

Government to Abolish 1824 Vagrancy Act and End Criminalisation of Rough Sleeping

Motta Delays Vote on Rural Debt Deal After Meetings With Agro and Sugar Industry

Saxony Asks States to Test Court‑Style Procedure for Children Below 14

Peru Authorizes Temporary Review To Reduce Sentences For Parents Who Pay Child Support

Berlin Reports Rise in Clan-Linked Crime in 2025

German Cabinet Approves Major Overhaul of Human-Trafficking Laws

Suspect Linked to Process in Ensenada Mutilated-Cat Case

Mass Shootings Kill Scores in Northern Honduras

Senegal’s Prime Minister Rejects Western Criticism and Defends Tough New Anti‑LGBTQ Law

Brazil’s Lower House Backs Tougher Child‑Sex Crime Penalties as Bill Moves to Senate