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JULY 22, 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Poland’s leadership of seeking to capture Ukranian land and potentially invade Belarus in a televised address on Friday. Putin said that NATO would form a task force that would enter the Ukraine War and then that Poland would take historically Polish lands in Western Ukraine and perhaps Belarus as well.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JULY 22, 2023

Some lawyer s get burned hiring staff, whether it’s legal assistant s , paralegals or other attorneys. But, just because you miss out once, in trying to hire somebody, doesn’t mean you should give up forever. There are distinct advantages to bring ing on employees, including increased control over work product + improved revenue generation models. In my experience, I’ve found that law firms connect on a successful hire (across all employee categories) about 40% of the time.

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JURIST

JULY 22, 2023

Experts from the United Nations (UN) Friday condemned the UK Illegal Migration Bill for its failure to follow international human rights standards. The experts urged the UK government to stop the implementation of the bill, which received Royal Assent and became domestic law in the UK on Saturday, July 21. The Illegal Migration Bill, introduced by Home Secretary Suella Braverman in March 2023, underwent three readings in each house between April and July.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

JULY 22, 2023

Broadly speaking, lawyers take on too much. You know: at work, emotionally. They’re probably also trying to carry too many grocery bags into the house at one time. You know how it is. This, of course, leads to a whole host of problems, including that attorneys have higher incidences of alcohol and drug dependence, as well as depression, than does the general population.

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JURIST

JULY 22, 2023

A report released Saturday on the treatment of human rights activists in Bangladesh found that at least 65 percent of surveyed human rights defenders said that the ruling Awami League party, law enforcement and intelligence services have obstructed their work. The report entitled “Who Defends the Defenders?” was produced in collaboration between the Centre for Governance Studies and 50 human rights defenders in the region.

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JURIST

JULY 22, 2023

A Kenyan police official told the Associated Press on Thursday that police received a warning against reporting deaths that have occurred as a result of this week’s opposition protests over the country’s high cost of living. Although it was unclear who issued the direct order, it came after opposition leader Raila Odinga called for three days of protests.

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The Crime Report

JULY 22, 2023

A new study of crime trends in 37 cities released Thursday by the Council on Criminal Justice found that homicide and other violent crime rates have continued to drop in the first half of 2023, with 202 fewer homicides than the same period in 2022. CCJ Senior Fellow Thomas Abt, director of the Violence Reduction Center at the University of Maryland, says that the results just show that more needs to be done.

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JURIST

JULY 22, 2023

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Thursday that it will impose travel restrictions on British diplomats, prohibiting them to travel outside of a 75-mile radius of the British Embassy in Moscow or the British Consulate in Yekaterinburg without advanced notice. According to the Russian MFA, the move comes in response to ‘hostile actions’ from the UK.

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JULY 22, 2023

We have often discussed the embrace of censorship by the left and many Democratic politicians , including President Joe Biden. However, the most distressing aspect of this trend has been the support of many in the media. That erosion of support for free speech was on display this week when the New York Times’ Sheryl Gay Stolberg said that this week’s effort by Democrats to censor Democratic presidential candidate Robert F.

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JURIST

JULY 22, 2023

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres released a statement on Thursday condemning the Russian attacks against ports in Odesa and other Ukrainian Black Sea ports. The attacks on civilian infrastructure may be a violation of international humanitarian law. According to Russia’s commitments under the Memorandum of Understanding, Russia should be facilitating the export of food from Ukrainian ports – but the attacks contradict this.

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JURIST

JULY 22, 2023

UN Special Rapporteur Fionnuala Ni Aolain released a statement on Friday urging the cessation of “indefinite mass detention without legal process,” particularly for children, in northeastern Syria detention centers. After arriving in Damascus, Syria on July 15, she visited prisons and detention sites and witnessed “major humanitarian challenges,” including inadequate access to water and electricity and issues with health services.

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JURIST

JULY 22, 2023

Governor of Alabama Kay Ivey approved a new congressional map Friday, passed by the Alabama legislature during a special session , which designates only one majority-Black district in the state. The approval is in defiance of the US Supreme Court ruling in Allen v. Milligan , which stated that the previous congressional map with only one majority-Black district was racially gerrymandered , therefore, violating the Voting Rights Act.

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