DAY BREAK | Women in the justice sector

26 Oct 2024 - France's National Assembly on Friday approved an amendment to the government's 2025 belt-tightening budget bill that would hit the country's wealthiest individuals with a billionaires tax.

26 Oct 2024 - In Uruguay's capital Montevideo and around this South American nation of 3.4 million people, voters are gearing up for Sunday's election, overshadowed by a plebiscite on pensions the same day and fears over crime.

26 Oct 2024 - A prolific "catfish" offender who pushed one of his victims, a 12-year-old US girl, to commit suicide was on Friday jailed for life at a court in Northern Ireland.

26 Oct 2024 - US President Joe Biden was set on Thursday to deliver a historic apology for one of the country's "darkest chapters": the abduction of Native American children from their families and placement in abusive boarding schools aimed at erasing their culture.

26 Oct 2024 - The pope's commission on clerical child sex abuse said Friday it will publish its first annual report next week, a decade after the body was established.

25 Oct 2024 - Kenya should never again be subjected to the politics of division and ethnicity, President William Ruto has said.

25 Oct 2024 - Thomas Mutune, who was once sentenced to 30 years in prison for narcotics trafficking, emerged from the Thika Prison as a qualified lawyer after serving just a decade behind bars.

25 Oct 2024 - The leaders called for a comprehensive awareness campaign to educate communities on the dangers of GBV and femicide, stressing that ending the crisis requires a cultural shift in societal perceptions of women and girls.

25 Oct 2024 - NAIROBI Kenya, Oct 25 – The High Court has suspended the Sh95 billion agreement between Kenya’s Ministry of Energy and Adani Energy Solutions for constructing and operating key electricity transmission infrastructure. Justice Bahati Mwamuye, in a ruling…

25 Oct 2024 - The government has come out to allay fears that it is clamping down on the freedom of worship as a fundamental right in Kenya.