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1. The UK has begun a campaign to raise Green Day's "American Idiot" to #1 in charts as a peaceful protest ahead of Mr. Trump's visit to the UK. They succeeded.

https://bit.ly/2uABdru

2. There is a bill, S.3188, titled "Gay and Trans Panic Defense Prohibition Act of 2018" that is currently in Congress. For background, "gay panic" or "trans panic" is a defense one may plead in the court of law against an accusation of having aggressed -including, but not limited to murder and assault- a person of the LGBTQ community.

https://bit.ly/2uG7AFv

3. Robert Mueller has indicted 12 more people, all of whom were officers in the Russian Military at some point, in the investigation of meddling in the 2016 US Presidential Election.

You can read the full report here: https://bit.ly/2Nf2szw

4. The US Treasury recently moved to "no longer require certain tax-exempt organizations including politically active nonprofit groups ... to identify their financial donors to U.S. tax authorities."

https://reut.rs/2NQ6yQ1

5. Mr. Trump is receiving bipartisan criticism of his behavior at the UK summit, specifically when it came to his interactions with Mr. Putin.

https://fxn.ws/2NVtGg3 https://reut.rs/2LnyQjf

In India, crime is an offense against the State. The law has given a massive status to crimes, so much so that punishments could range from fine to the death penalty. Crime is against the welfare of society, and therefore, there are many legislations against the same in our country. The prominent ones include the Indian Penal Code, 1860, the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. Besides these significant acts, there are acts such as the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, the Juvenile Justice Act, 2000, the Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986, the Narcotics drugs and psychotropic substances Act, 1985, etc.

Draconian laws, earlier by Congress and now by BJP, have been used against Muslims, Dalits, Asaduddin Owaisi tells LS

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Parliament LATEST updates: AIMIM’s Telangana MP Asaduddin Owaisi in Lok Sabha opposed The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2019. Owaisi said, “By bringing such a bill, it will mean we are disrespecting freedom fighters, as it violates of Article 21 merely on the basis of the feeling of the government or suspect. This is social ostracisation. The bill lacks judicial review…

Govt is trying to run Parliament like a ‘department’, we won’t be ‘rubber stamps’, says Ghulam Nabi Azad as Congress walks out of RS

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Parliament LATEST updates: Congress MP  Ghulam Nabi Azad said in the Upper House, “This is Rajya Sabha…it has a way to function…it can not be run like a department of the government. We are not willing to be rubber stamps.” Congress walked out of Rajya Sabha in protest against the government stand that prime minister Narendra Modi will not respond on Donald Trump’s remarks on the Kashmir…