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Sunway RE Capital Expands Student Accommodation Portfolio with New Acquisition of Freehold Purpose-Built Student Accommodation, Green Wood Court, in Southampton, UK

February 6, 2023 acn

With 233 beds arranged as 217 non en-suites and 16 studios, Green Wood Court has achieved a 100% occupancy rate for the academic year 2022/2023 The freehold Purpose-Built Student Accommodation (“PBSA”), Green Wood Court, is located just a few minutes’ walk from the University of Southampton’s Highfield and Bolderwood campuses with established connection links to […]

Kenyan court convicts Venezuelan diplomat for envoy’s murder

January 27, 2023 hk_news

Venezuelan diplomat Dwight Sagaray (center) attends on April 7, 2014 at the high-court in Nairobi, his trial for the murder of former acting Venezuelan ambassador to Kenya, Olga Fonseca in July 2012. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP) NAIROBI – A Kenyan court on Wednesday found a Venezuelan diplomat guilty of murdering the Latin American nation's acting […]

US Supreme Court decision creates confusion on gun curbs

January 17, 2023 hk_news

Uvalde and Highland Park mass shootings survivors, families and supporters rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, calling for stricter gun controls on July 13, 2022. (OLIVER CONTRERAS / AFP) NEW YORK – Since the US Supreme Court overturned a New York law limiting the concealed carry of handguns in public areas, there has been […]

Mexico elects first female Supreme Court president

January 4, 2023 hk_news

A screen shows the ceremony in which Norma Lucia Pina prepares to take the oath as president of the Supreme Court of Justice while speaking on a television screen in the press room of the Supreme Court building in Mexico City, Mexico Jan 2, 2023. (HENRY ROMERO / REUTERS) MEXICO CITY – Mexico's Supreme Court […]

Argentina president rejects Supreme Court ruling

December 24, 2022 hk_news

This undated photo shows Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez. (PHOTO / BLOOMBERG) BUENOS AIRES – Argentina's leftist President Alberto Fernandez has sparked a battle with the country's top court and something of a legal crisis after he said he would reject a ruling it made to give a larger proportion of state funds to the city […]

US Senate passes same-sex marriage protection bill

December 1, 2022 hk_news

Thousands march along Market Street during the annual Gay Pride parade in San Francisco, California on June 28, 2015, two days after the US Supreme Court's landmark ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. (JOSH EDELSON / AFP PHOTO) WASHINGTON – The US Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that would protect federal recognition of same-sex marriage, […]

Vatican court hears cardinal’s taped phone call with pope

November 25, 2022 hk_news

Cardinal Angelo Becciu attends the consistory inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on Aug 27, 2022. (ANDREW MEDICHINI / FILE / AP) VATICAN CITY – A court at a Vatican corruption trial on Thursday heard a secretly recorded telephone call between the main defendant, embattled Cardinal Angelo Becciu, and Pope Francis. Reporters were asked […]

France told to re-examine repatriation requests of IS men’s wives

September 15, 2022 hk_news

This photo shows the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Feb 7, 2019. (FREDERICK FLORIN / AFP) PARIS – The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday ruled that France must re-examine repatriation requests from two French women who traveled to Syria with their partners to join Islamic State, and the […]

Angolan opposition seeks annulment of Aug 24 election

September 2, 2022 hk_news

In this file photo taken on Aug 22, 2022 Angolan opposition party National Union for the Total Independence of Angola leader and presidential candidate, Adalberto Costa Junior, gestures as he delivers a speech during the UNITA final campaign rally ahead of general elections, in Luanda. (JOHN WESSELS / AFP) LISBON – Angola's main opposition party […]

US state attorneys: CDC lacks authority to set mask rules

August 10, 2022 hk_news

A sign displays mask wearing information at Penn station in New York on Aug 2, 2021. (KENA BETANCUR / AFP) WASHINGTON / BERLIN – A group of 23 state attorneys general led by Florida told a federal court on Monday that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacks the legal authority to impose a nationwide […]

US state attorneys: CDC lacks authority to set transit mask rule

August 9, 2022 hk_news

A sign displays mask wearing information at Penn station in New York on Aug 2, 2021. (KENA BETANCUR / AFP) WASHINGTON / BERLIN – A group of 23 state attorneys general led by Florida told a federal court on Monday that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lacks the legal authority to impose a nationwide […]

US top court asks Maryland to bar protests at justices’ homes

July 3, 2022 hk_news

US Marshals patrol outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, in Chevy Chase, Md, June 8, 2022. (JACQUELYN MARTIN / AP) WASHINGTON – The US Supreme Court’s top security officer has asked Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to enforce laws barring picketing outside the Maryland homes of high court justices, saying protests and “threatening […]

US appeals court vacates federal jab mandate pending hearing

June 28, 2022 hk_news

A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at a walk up vaccination site in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. (DAVID PAUL MORRIS / BLOOMBERG) PARIS / LOS ANGELES / ADDIS ABABA / WASHINGTON – A US appeals court panel said on Monday it would convene a full panel to […]

Protesters at US top court decry ruling overturning Roe v. Wade

June 27, 2022 hk_news

People protest about abortion outside the Supreme Court in Washington on June 25, 2022. (STEVE HELBER / AP) WASHINGTON/JACKSON, Mississippi – Hundreds of protesters descended on the US Supreme Court on Saturday to denounce the justices' decision to overturn the half-century-old Roe v. Wade precedent that recognized women's constitutional right to abortion. The sweeping ruling […]

Biden signs gun safety bill into law, takes swipe at Supreme Court

June 27, 2022 hk_news

President Joe Biden signs into law S. 2938, the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act gun safety bill, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington pn June 25, 2022. First lady Jill Biden looks on at right. (PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS / AP) WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the […]

US Supreme Court strikes down abortion rights

June 25, 2022 hk_news

Supporters of abortion rights attend a rally in Washington, DC, the United States, on May 14, 2022. (LIU JIE/XINHUA) WASHINGTON – The US Supreme Court on Friday overturned Roe v Wade, a landmark decision that established a constitutional right to abortion in the nation nearly 50 years ago. "Roe was egregiously wrong from the start," […]