Israel said it had begun a ground offensive into Lebanon, intensifying its campaign against Hizbollah after launching waves of devastating air strikes against the Lebanese militant group. In a brief statement, the Israeli military said in the early hours of Tuesday that it had begun “limited, localised, and targeted ground raids” against Hizbollah in southern … Read more
Enlarge / Oil painting by Belgian marine artist François Etienne Musin depicting tje HMS Erebus trapped in Arctic ice. Scientists at the University of Waterloo have identified one of the doomed crew members of Captain Sir John S. Franklin‘s 1846 Arctic expedition to cross the Northwest Passage. According to a recent paper published in the … Read more
Image by yousafbhutta from Pixabay On 26 September 2024, the Belgian Constitutional Court referred a highly topical issue of fair remuneration of authors and performers on online streaming platforms to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU). The reference, which is poised to result in one of the most significant CJEU judgments in the … Read more
A finalized federal rule announced by the Departments of Treasury, Health and Human Services, and Labor in March 2024, has imposed new nationwide duration limits on short-term limited duration insurance (STLDI) plans. The rule – which applies to plans sold or issued on or after September 1, 2024 – limits new STLDI plans to three-month … Read more
Die von rechtlichen Maßstäben entkoppelte Datenverarbeitung des BKA Morgen wird das Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG) über das Bundeskriminalamtsgesetz (BKAG) 2018 entscheiden. Die mündliche Verhandlung am 20. Dezember 2023 hinterließ den Eindruck, dass das Gericht die in Frage stehenden Normen zumindest teilweise beanstanden wird. Neben umstrittenen heimlichen Maßnahmen, wie die langfristige Observation gegen sogenannte Kontaktpersonen, ist die Verarbeitung … Read more
