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Ohio Redistricting Commission co-chair state Sen. Vernon Sykes talks to Senate President Matt Huffman during Sunday’s meeting of the ORC. The commission ended up throwing out independent mapmaker work and adopting a slightly revised version of the third map, already rejected by the Ohio Supreme Court. (Photo by Susan Tebben, OCJ) Ohio Capital Journal https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/ As law...

Emmanuel Macron. Credit: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg The re-election of Emmanuel Macron as president of France is a welcome sign of stability that should reassure international investors and benefit sectors including M&A, private equity, real estate and energy, top partners in France have said. Macron, the head of a centrist party he founded just five years ago, fended off a challeng...

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Election fever is sweeping the Philippines as rallies and debates are held in the lead-up to the 2022 national poll, which will see the country elect a new president, vice-president and thousands of other positions including senators, congressional representatives and mayors. Amnesty International is calling on all candidates to put human rights front and centre in their campaigns after six y...

Hundreds of women marched through downtown Mexico City and its suburbs on Sunday to protest the horrifying death of an 18-year-old law student in the northern city of Monterrey. Protesters also marched in the rough suburb of Nezahualcoyotl, where two women were killed in the last week. The demonstrators, mainly women, carried signs reading "No to Harassment" and "Mexico is a mass grave." A wo...

Law No. 7394 made significant amendments related to tax legislation. These amendments cover: an effective repentance mechanism for tax crimes and penalties; a successive offense mechanism in tax crimes and penalties; an increase of the upper limit on prison sentences for tax fraud crimes; VAT exemption for certain goods and services obtained within an investment incentive certificate; corpora...

Your Turn This week is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, a time to raise awareness of the importance of crime victims’ rights and to mark the milestones achieved in the crime victims’ rights movement. Here in Florida, it is also a time to celebrate another significant step we have taken forward with the legislature’s recent passage of the Victims of Crimes Bill. Our deepest appreciation t...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The pay is up for local police officers and sheriff's deputies, but law enforcement agencies are still finding it difficult to fill open positions. While the Evansville Police Department says daily operations have not been impacted, Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding said the county jail effectively operates at minimum staffing levels due to a lack of confinement off...

Skyscraper office buildings in the Moscow International Business Center and the Grand Kremlin palace, center, in Moscow on Feb. 15, 2022. White & Case, Debevoise plan to withdraw from representing Sberbank First, lawyers re-upped bank’s effort to get out of plane bombing case Law firms White & Case and Debevoise & Plimpton have already said they plan to stop representing Russia-...