Spain installed a 500-meter sea barrier off Ceuta on August 1 after mass crossings from Morocco left at least 67 people dead. Spanish authorities said 48,300 people had returned to Morocco, while 22 European Union governments sought a coordinated response.
The UK High Court rejected a residents' challenge to planning permission for China's proposed embassy at Royal Mint Court on July 31. The dispute centers on whether planning conditions can be enforced at diplomatic premises and whether the approval process was fair.
The High Court in London dismissed privacy claims by Prince Harry and six other public figures against the Daily Mail publisher on July 7, 2026. Associated Newspapers says it incurred £34.5 million in costs, but the recoverable sum and assessment basis remain undecided.
The UK Supreme Court granted Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori permission on July 29 to pursue one ground of appeal against the group's proscription. The court refused a second ground, while the ban and its criminal penalties remain in force pending the appeal.
The US Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general in a 50-49 vote on August 8, 2026. Two Republican holdouts cleared his path only after the Justice Department put concessions over a disputed tax settlement in writing.
Taiwan completed government trials of three zero-trust controls between 2022 and 2024, while 47 top-tier agencies received help deploying identity checks. Financial regulators are taking a phased approach that starts with guidance and may later put implementation principles into baseline rules.
A 2020 international consensus statement recommends measuring waist circumference alongside BMI because the two measures capture different aspects of health risk. Waist-to-height ratio offers a simple screening check, but neither measurement diagnoses visceral fat or metabolic disease.
A Taipei pharmacists' group and a private health association are expanding a program that links community pharmacies with clinics and corporate sponsors. The initiative proposes foot, bone and eye risk checks, but its promoters have not published test accuracy, referral completion or health-outcome data.
Taiwan's health ministry says three hospital groups completed a cross-system FHIR demonstration by the end of 2025. The standard can make records easier for software and AI tools to query, but it does not settle data quality, access control or accountability.
Australia’s antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal appeared before a federal royal commission on July 30 as it examined education and training responses to hate. Her plan spans age-appropriate school lessons, professional development and scrutiny of universities, while the commission’s final recommendations remain pending.
A Greek judge ordered Afghan boxer Sharif Ahmadzai held pending trial after prosecutors charged him over the death of Scottish aid worker Elizabeth-Jane Ross. He denies killing Ross but acknowledges moving her body, according to British media reports from Athens.
Ghana's Supreme Court ruled 5-2 on July 29 that political parties cannot restrict presidential and parliamentary candidate votes to selected delegates. Parties have one year to give every registered member in good standing a vote, while the Electoral Commission must oversee compliance.
Temporary Protected Status and related work authorization ended for roughly 350,000 Haitians in late July after a US Supreme Court ruling removed lower-court restraints. The same judgment cleared the termination of protection for more than 6,000 Syrians and sharply limited review of the US homeland security secretary's decisions.
India ordered senior Meta executives to explain why a Facebook video posted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefly restricted on July 28. Meta restored the post and blamed an error, but Indian officials sought both a policy and technical account of the incident.
Australia's communications regulator sued Optus Mobile on July 30 over 1,005 alleged emergency-call rule breaches during a September 2025 outage. An Optus-commissioned review found that 455 of 605 affected callers did not connect during the 14-hour failure.
Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes resigned on July 30 after criticism of the city's delayed and inaccurate public updates on a festival shooting. Preliminary ballistics did not match the bullets that killed two bystanders to the gun carried by the arrested 15-year-old.
A Utah judge on July 29 rejected Kouri Richins' request to disqualify the judge who presided over her murder trial. The ruling addressed who may hear her separate motion for a new trial, not whether a new trial should be granted.
Victorian ministers Harriet Shing and Lily D'Ambrosio said on July 30 that they would leave the cabinet and retire at the November state election. Their departures gave new Premier Ben Carroll two vacancies as he prepared to reorganize his frontbench.
