New York – Global law firm K&L Gates LLP has advised Yoshiharu Global Co. (Nasdaq: YOSH), a California-based restaurant operator, on the closing of its initial public offering of 2.94 million shares of its Class A common stock at a public offering price of $4.00 per share. The shares began […]

Countries: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, World, Yemen, Zimbabwe Sources: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Food Programme Without a massively scaled up humanitarian response that […]

A man was arrested in Hong Kong on suspicion of sedition after playing the harmonica at a vigil for Queen Elizabeth II, under a colonial-era law that once outlawed insulting the Queen — and has now been revived by authorities amid an ongoing crackdown.

What You Need to Know in a Minute or Less While the mass arbitration tactic has caused much consternation for defendants, the development of new rules and procedures to blunt the force of this tactic has frustrated plaintiffs’ attorneys. Both sides have turned to the courts for relief. However, to […]

Climate interventions known as geoengineering typically conjure up images of the skies, with sophisticated approaches to deflecting the sun’s rays, or of machines that scour carbon emissions from the air. But some ideas, like ‘enhanced weathering,’ are more earthbound and they, too, are fraught with challenges. New research from Universität […]

Country: Syrian Arab Republic Source: Save the Children Thousands of children are at risk from a rapidly spreading outbreak of cholera caused by water shortages linked to climate change, conflict and the use of contaminated water from the Euphrates River.

“Super floods” in Pakistan have left 3.4 million children in need of “immediate, lifesaving support,” according to UNICEF.

Surprisingly, the German Federal Employment Court (BAG) decided on 13 September 2022 that an obligation exists for employers in Germany to comprehensively record employees’ working time (case reference 1 ABR 22/21). For employers, this results in a great deal of uncertainty, as the details of this obligation remain unclear. The […]