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COLOMBO, March 22 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka will hire a global law firm to provide technical assistance on debt restructuring ahead of talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the country's economic crisis, a top official said on Tuesday. The island's currency reserves have slumped 70% in the last two years to $2.31 billion and it has to repay about $4 billion in debt in the remainder ...

Rhea Law is a USF alumna and is the former chief executive officer and chair of the board of Fowler White Boggs, a Florida law firm. TAMPA, Fla. — The University of South Florida's board of trustees has selected Rhea Law to be the school's next president. According to information from USF, interim president Law and Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Talley were finalists for the position after the search start...

Image caption, The protocol led to inspections at ports on certain goods imported into Northern Ireland from Great Britain The UK and EU need to do more to explain how updates to EU law could impact Northern Ireland, a House of Lords committee has warned. A significant amount of EU law continues to apply in NI under the terms of the Protocol. That body of law is subject to constant technical ...

The Colorado Senate gave final approval to a bill Monday that would ban openly carrying a firearm within 100 feet of a polling center. Democrats who supported the bill say the measure is needed to ensure that voters feel safe while casting a ballot, and don’t feel intimidated when doing so. But Republicans said the measure makes little sense, especially considering that less than 5% of voters...

Volunteer supporting woman dying of tumor in a hospital room. (iStock photo) Marianne Tanzer recently had to make difficult decisions about her elderly father’s medical care. Her father, 86, was already in poor health, and now he also had COVID. Tanzer, her father’s legal healthcare proxy, wanted to honor her father’s end-of-life wishes. But it was also important for her to follow halacha, or...

CALIFORNIA, USA — A Rocklin assemblyman is hoping the tragic shooting of three girls and a chaperone in Sacramento can catalyze an effort to repeal California's Sanctuary State law. The law itself was set back in 2017, and generally, it limited the ability of local law enforcement to notify federal authorities about the release of undocumented immigrants from jail. "It was a bill specifically...

MANKATO, Minn. (KEYC) — Several law enforcement agencies responded to an apparent disturbance at the Blue Earth County Jail Monday night. Eight to nine inmates reportedly barricaded themselves with tables and made makeshift weapons. Several agencies are on the scene to deescalate the situation. The Minnesota Department of Corrections has been notified of the incident. This is a developing sto...

AndreyPopov/Getty Images A new law in Arizona is meant to strengthen background checks for those applying for assisted living facility certificates or nursing care administrator licenses through the state’s Board of Nursing Care Institution Administrators and Assisted Living Facility Managers. “Our nursing homes and assisted living facilities deserve accountability and leadership from their s...

As anyone who studies Mishnah can attest, there are many debates between the House of Hillel (Beit Hillel) and the House of Shammai (Beit Shammai), two schools of thought that flourished during the Tannaic period (last century BCE and early 1st century). The final halachah almost always follows Beit Hillel, which is usually the more lenient opinion. However, the kabbalists reveal that in the ...

Christophe Adubango, 29, is a civil society leader from Bunia in Ituri province, who has been detained since October 24, 2021, for “spreading false information”: "Soldiers took me to the Governor's Residence where they tortured me. They kicked me with their boots, and they beat me with guns. I bled in my nose and mouth, and I had pain everywhere. I was at the o the military prosecutor's offic...