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The Bear vs The Bird: Turkey shots down Russian aircrafts over Syrian airspace
The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq or Daesh, is now deemed to be global threat, that…
Essential facts about U.S. Supreme Court gay marriage case
The Supreme Court on Tuesday is set to hears arguments over whether states may ban gay marriage. Here is a look at the case, known as Obergefell v. Hodges. WHEN…
The Curious Case of Google Books (Authors Guild v Google Books)
Google Books has been into news, not for the snippets of information that it has been supplying, but for a very long and protracted litigation, whose end does not seem…
The Plight Of Transgenders In The Global Prison System
You know them as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender – people are people. Judith Light A transsexual person is someone who lives or proposes to live in the gender opposite to…
Position of Islamic Law in Malaysia in Light of the Transgender Case
The recent Court of Appeal decision on the transgender case received heavy criticism from certain quarters (hereby referred to as the “gainsayers”) who view the decision as a step backward…
The Russian ‘Blogger Law’
Just weeks after he disparaged the Internet as “a special project”, Valdimir Putin, borrowed a page from the restrictive Internet playbooks of many governments around the world that have…
Ukraine Crisis: What it could mean for the rest of the World.
The current on-going battle between Russia and Ukraine over the accession of the Crimean Peninsula has inarguably become one of the most controversial matters of the year. But is this a conflict which is only…
Food “Over” Security by Israel-A Critic.
On 19th March 2014, the Parliament of Israel passed the ‘ADVANCEMENT OF COMPETITION IN THE FOOD SECTOR LAW 2014’. The legislative history to this law can be traced to the…
Minorities in the Age of Globalisation
Minority is so to say a “cohort concept” or a concept which envelops a cluster of issues. Far from being a matter of the past, minorities have become a very…