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A UN specialist is pushing Portugal to beef up protections for people with albinism after finding the country lacks targeted legislation for this group. Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond wrapped up her visit and pointed out that Portugal needs better data tracking across healthcare, schools, and job...

Georgia's acting district attorney just yeeted the election interference case against Trump and his buddies by saying the whole thing got too messy to prosecute. Peter Skandalakis filed paperwork claiming the legal hurdles would drag this out until at least 2031, and he wasn't convinced the RICO...

Amnesty International dropped reports saying governments and big fashion companies are making bank while garment workers get screwed out of basic union rights across India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The organization checked out 20 factories and found bosses constantly threatening...

Human Rights Watch is telling Thailand to back off from prosecuting Murray Hunter, an Australian reporter who got slapped with criminal defamation charges for trash-talking Malaysia's Communications and Multimedia Commission. The rights group says Thailand is basically doing Malaysia's dirty...

Browne Jacobson partner Bridget Tatham is taking over as president of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers, which represents about 8,000 legal professionals across the UK and Ireland. She's been grinding at the firm since 2002 and handles gnarly cases involving occupational disease, plus brain and...

Law firms are throwing cash at fund finance lawyers because the market's about to explode from 1.2 trillion to over 2.5 trillion by the end of the decade. Gibson Dunn grabbed Duncan McKay from Fried Frank to run their fund finance group in New York, and Paul Hastings snagged Jennifer Passagne...

The UK legal industry just dropped its nominations for the Women and Diversity in Law Awards, and 250 people, plus firms, made the cut. Nominees range from junior lawyers to heavy hitters competing for Woman of the Year, and they need to submit their actual entries by early December for the...

Chido Dzinotyiwei is building Vambo AI to get African languages into artificial intelligence systems, and she's making sure ChiShona, IsiNdebele, and IsiZulu get proper representation in the algorithms that run business and communication tech. The Zimbabwean entrepreneur grew up bouncing between...

A filmmaker from Costa Rica and Catalonia named Kokopelli is running this platform called ATAEC that links up artists fighting climate change across different continents. She's been working with Bulawayo artist Fisani Nkomo and indigenous business owner Makhosi Mahlangu from Lupane, and they're...

Zimbabwe's Grade 7 pass rate dropped to 48.49 percent from last year's 49.01 percent, and Zimsec chairman Paul Mapfumo said nearly 395,000 kids wrote exams this cycle. The country hasn't cracked 50 percent since way back when the 2018 group managed 52.08 percent, and things bottomed out during...

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company Trading wants to pump more investment into Zimbabwe by bringing fuel and gas at competitive rates. The UAE firm's CEO, Ahmad Bin Thalith, met with President Mnangagwa and said they're already supplying diesel and gasoline under a contract that kicked off months...

Zimbabwe's diamond industry is getting wrecked by lab-grown stones and weak global pricing, according to Minerals Marketing Corporation head Nomusa Moyo. The country's lithium sector is also taking hits from depressed international markets. Mimosa Mining Company paused platinum exports for...

Parliamentary auditors busted village chiefs across the country charging illegal fees between two grand and five thousand dalasis for land transfers that should be free. The alkalolu also skims up to five percent off property sales, even though local government rules ban them from collecting any...

Lawmakers just dropped a report showing Gambian hospitals stuff up to four newborns into a single incubator when things get busy. The neonatal unit runs with just 15 machines total, plus one radiant warmer, which forces moms to literally hold sick babies in their laps while waiting for equipment...

Health officials dropped warnings about antibiotic resistance turning into a legit crisis that kills more people than HIV and malaria combined across Africa. The Ministry of Health teamed up with UN groups at a warehouse in Kotu to explain how overusing meds creates super bacteria that spreads...

Some guy got busted inside a mosque after allegedly trying to jack an electronic device during morning prayers. A witness spotted the broken ceiling and missing door glass that pointed to forced entry, and a crowd already had the suspect cornered by the time authorities showed up at the Brikama...

Court officials slapped an elderly businessman with fraud charges after he allegedly pulled over three million dalasis from accounts that were not his. The dude pleaded innocent when magistrates read out accusations claiming he yanked cash from an Eco Bank account tied to JBM Financial Services...

Valve pulled a free solitaire game from its Russian storefront after the government complained about pride-themed card decks, while Apple and Google straight up ignored the same takedown request. The studio behind Flick Solitaire says their game runs in over 40 countries that criminalize LGBTQ...

Team Cherry already started grinding away at DLC content for Silksong after shipping one of the biggest indie releases ever that grabbed five Game Awards nods. The devs told Bloomberg they shelved stuff like Steel Assassin Sharpe and the Village of Lions during initial development because...

Digital Extremes just dropped their roadmap for the next Warframe expansion that brings roguelite tower runs and timed objective modes alongside artifact weapons tied to Focus School abilities. The Descendia thing lets players grind through randomized floors with weekly resets, while Perita...