After dropping the contested unrealised-gains design, Labor lands an extra 15% over A$3m and 25% over A$10m, indexed
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Brussels is finalising its largest-ever Digital Markets Act penalty against Google for search self-preferencing, alongside binding orders to share search data with rivals and give competing AI assistants equal Android access. The remedies are more consequential than the fine. It is now a transatlantic flashpoint — Washington threatens tariff retaliation. Watch the late-July decisions and the US response.
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Justices signaled they may preserve birthright citizenship and block the firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook
An Istanbul court annuls the CHP's 2023 congress, unseating Özgür Özel and bringing back Kılıçdaroğlu — judicial pressure on Erdoğan's main rival party deepens
Jailed over a year, Erdoğan's strongest rival faces 15-20 years on espionage charges and a separate indictment seeking up to 2,430 — and tells the court the nation will decide at the ballot box
The NTA scraps the 2.27-million-candidate medical entrance after a paper leak; a satirical youth movement demanding the education minister's resignation gains 22 million followers in a month
stalemate Senate rejects Lula's Supreme Court pick — first since 1894 — and he renominates the same man
The chamber blocks AGU Jorge Messias 42–34 in a historic rebuke tied to its own president; Lula sends the name back
pending-decision Marcos vs Duterte: Sara's Senate impeachment trial opens July 6
257 House votes, $110m in flagged transfers, and a trial that runs in parallel with the elder Duterte's ICC case at The Hague
pending-decision Morena's Senate pushes Mexico's judicial elections from 2027 to 2028
An 87-40 constitutional vote reworks candidate selection and lets TEPJF magistrates seek re-election, extending the bench overhaul
The prime minister leaves the stand calling the case a 'Stasi' operation as a verdict slips toward 2027 and an election toward autumn
Disciplinary and criminal files over his X account and rally speeches; the Council of State orders him to stop official political messaging
The first final corruption ruling to reach the PM's inner circle, in the pandemic 'masks' case
A 7-year sentence for Osama Almasri reopens the case against Meloni's ministers
Four years two months and ineligibility to 2038 for coercion — tried in absentia for seeking US sanctions on the court trying his father
The president pushes a mediated plea deal Netanyahu won't take — admitting wrongdoing and quitting politics — while Trump calls Herzog 'weak and pathetic'
The president orders international access restored after one of the longest shutdowns on record; hardline outlets say he had no authority, exposing the rift inside the system
pending-decision EU top-court adviser sides against von der Leyen in 'Pfizergate'
An Advocate General urges dismissing the Commission's appeal over the secret Pfizer vaccine texts
A damning annual report passes 381-107, naming Akın Gürlek over the İmamoğlu case; Ankara calls it 'hostile propaganda'
An ₹18.36-crore freeze on Kerala's ex-CM revives 'weaponised agencies' charges; the Supreme Court's November opinion narrows its own April ruling that had reined in Governors
SDNY charges Sinaloa's Rocha Moya with aiding 'Los Chapitos'; Sheinbaum says Mexico may reject the detention request absent evidence
A second corruption strand circles Sánchez: kickbacks on public works and an obstruction probe
pending-decision Carney nominates Manitoba's Glenn Joyal to the Supreme Court
A bilingual Prairie 'institutionalist' fills the Western seat left by Justice Martin
A blogger died in a Nairobi police cell in June 2025; a year on, the murder trial of six officers halts because the station's CCTV was deliberately formatted hours after his death
A KNCHR reparations framework verifies over 1,000 victims of 2017-2025 state violence, but bars looting and 'ordinary criminal' victims and withholds the names, drawing daily picketing
Most for drug offences and many of them foreign nationals, with the total under King Salman now past 2,000 — as the kingdom courts the world on Vision 2030
The EU is finalizing its largest-ever Digital Markets Act penalty over search self-preferencing, with binding data-sharing and Android orders due by late July