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#international-law

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has been granted bail in several more cases as he continues to allege that the country's powerful military plans to rearrest him imminently.Khan, who is facing more than 100 cases, was granted bail by courts in Islamabad and Lahore in several cases relating to corruption and terrorism charges.

China's Foreign Ministry condemned a resolution passed by the European Parliament concerning Hong Kong's shrinking rights to free speech, even as Beijing seeks to restore economic links with the EU.The EU body overwhelmingly adopted a resolution Thursday citing the deterioration of the city's freedoms since the imposition by Beijing of a sweeping national security law in 2020.

A Chinese fighter jet conducted an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver during an intercept of a US spy plane in international airspace over the South China Sea last week, the US military said in a statement Tuesday.The Chinese J-16 fighter cut directly in front of the nose of the US RC-135 Rivet Joint reconnaissance aircraft on May 26, forcing the US plane to fly through the wake turbulence of the intercepting aircraft.

Iran freed a Belgian aid worker imprisoned in Tehran for 455 days on charges of spying, in exchange for Belgium releasing a former Iranian diplomat who was convicted in 2021 of a thwarted bomb plot.The aid worker, Olivier Vandecasteele, was flown late Thursday from Tehran to Muscat, the capital of Oman, where the exchange took place, Belgium's prime minister, Alexander De Croo, said on Friday.

We're a long way past the point where we need to ask what exactly Suella Braverman has on Rishi Sunak.Has she somehow got hold of a recording of a telephone call in which Dominic Raab thanks the prime minister for joining him on one of his regular nocturnal killing sprees?Has she got hold of a video of Rish! telling Goldman Sachs clients how best to avoid paying tax?

Netanyahu's government reportedly informed the U.S. of plans to build thousands of new Jewish-only settler homes.Member of the Knesset and leader of the far right Zionut Datit (Jewish Zionism) party, Bezalel Smotrich, visits the neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah of the Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem on May 10, 2021, in Israel.Laurent Van Der Stockt / Getty Images Human rights defenders on Monday blasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right apartheid government after it reportedly informed the Biden administration of plans to build thousands of new Jewish-only settler homes in the illegally occupied West Bank of Palestine.

Peers have been abused, bullied and intimidated by the Government over the controversial plans to tackle the small boats crisis, it has been claimed in Parliament.The charge was levelled as the House of Lords again sat into the early hours debating the Illegal Migration Bill.With proceedings having started at 2.30pm on Monday, the upper chamber eventually rose at 2am on Tuesday.

The government's new small boats bill could lead to asylum seekers taking more dangerous routes to the UK, benefit people smugglers and worsen trafficking, a parliamentary report has found.An inquiry by the cross-party Joint Committee on Human Rights said the government had not provided any evidence backing its claim that the Illegal Migration Bill would deter Channel crossings.

The Illegal Migration Bill breaches a number of the UK's human rights obligations, MPs and peers have warned ministers.Most asylum seekers arriving in the UK after the flagship legislation has been passed would have their claim declared inadmissible, according to a report published by Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights.

"The Board's own findings, in light of the proper application of our precedent, compel the conclusion that MacNeil's secondary-consideration evidence is of no relevance to the obviousness inquiry in this case."- CAFC
In a precedential opinion issued Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) reversed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) judgment that affirmed patent claims in part due to the commercial success of MacNeil IP's WeatherTech vehicle floor tray.

"[The] split [on patent eligibility law] produces intolerable uncertainty for businesses, with the Executive Branch issuing meritorious patents like the three patents at issue here, only to have the courts invalidate them."- Michel/Duffy brief
Last week, retired U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) Chief Judge Paul Michel and law professor John F. Duffy filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of CareDx, Inc. and the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

The Government pressing ahead with parliamentary scrutiny of controversial plans to tackle the small boats crisis into the early hours of the morning has been branded disgraceful at Westminster.There was frustration and anger as detailed debate on the Illegal Migration Bill continued through the night in the House of Lords.

British public officials are a legitimate military target because of the UK's support for Ukraine, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has warned.Mr Medvedev, deputy chairman of Vladimir Putin's security council, claimed the UK's support for Kyiv amounted to an undeclared war against Russia.His comments came after Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Ukraine had the right to project force beyond its borders into Russia to resist Mr Putin's invasion.

China offered a stinging rebuttal to Rishi Sunak who called Beijing a challenge to global security by labelling Britain a vassal of the US and warning of lasting damage to its ties with London.The relevant remarks by the British side are simply parroting words from others and constitute malicious slanders in disregard ofthe facts.

Ukraine will rebuild destroyed cities like Bakhmut in the same way that Hiroshima has recovered following the atomic bomb attack during the Second World War, the country's leader has said.President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in Hiroshima to address G7 leaders about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, visited the memorial to mark the Japanese city being the first place to experience the devastation of a nuclear bomb following the US attack in 1945.