Spain Votes On Lowering Age Of Criminal Responsibility - Madrid

Spain Votes On Lowering Age Of Criminal Responsibility - Madrid

VOX deputy Blanca Armario speaks during a plenary session, in the Congress of Deputies, on November 18, 2025, in Madrid (Spain). The Plenary of the Congress debates and votes today the Proposition of Law of modification of the Organic Law 5/2000, of January 12, regulating the criminal responsibility of minors, to lower the criminal age and punish more firmly and effectively the crimes committed by minors. The initiative, which has been proposed by Vox, proposes to lower from 14 to 12 years the legal age limit to consider minors criminally responsible, among other issues, on November 18, 2025 in Madrid, Spain. Photo by Matias Chiofalo/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Spain Votes On Lowering Age Of Criminal Responsibility - Madrid

Spain Votes On Lowering Age Of Criminal Responsibility - Madrid

VOX deputy Blanca Armario speaks during a plenary session, in the Congress of Deputies, on November 18, 2025, in Madrid (Spain). The Plenary of the Congress debates and votes today the Proposition of Law of modification of the Organic Law 5/2000, of January 12, regulating the criminal responsibility of minors, to lower the criminal age and punish more firmly and effectively the crimes committed by minors. The initiative, which has been proposed by Vox, proposes to lower from 14 to 12 years the legal age limit to consider minors criminally responsible, among other issues, on November 18, 2025 in Madrid, Spain. Photo by Matias Chiofalo/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Spain Votes On Lowering Age Of Criminal Responsibility - Madrid

Spain Votes On Lowering Age Of Criminal Responsibility - Madrid

VOX spokeswoman in Congress, Pepa Millán, and VOX secretary general, Jose María Figaredo, during a plenary session, at the Congress of Deputies, on November 18, 2025, in Madrid (Spain). The Plenary of the Congress debates and votes today the Proposition of Law of modification of the Organic Law 5/2000, of January 12, regulating the criminal responsibility of minors, to lower the criminal age and punish more firmly and effectively the crimes committed by minors. The initiative, which has been proposed by Vox, proposes to lower from 14 to 12 years the legal age limit to consider minors criminally responsible, among other issues, on November 18, 2025 in Madrid, Spain. Photo by Matias Chiofalo/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Spain Votes On Lowering Age Of Criminal Responsibility - Madrid

Spain Votes On Lowering Age Of Criminal Responsibility - Madrid

Minute of silence during a plenary session, at the Congress of Deputies, on November 18, 2025, in Madrid (Spain). The Plenary of the Congress debates and votes today the Bill to amend the Organic Law 5/2000, of January 12, regulating the criminal responsibility of minors, to lower the criminal age and punish more firmly and effectively the crimes committed by minors. The initiative, which has been proposed by Vox, proposes to lower from 14 to 12 years the legal age limit to consider minors criminally responsible, among other issues, on November 18, 2025 in Madrid, Spain. Photo by Matias Chiofalo/Europa Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers held in Minsk

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Japan formally decides to downgrade COVID-19 to flu level on May 8

Japan formally decides to downgrade COVID-19 to flu level on May 8

A Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry panel convenes a meeting in Tokyo on April 27, 2023, where it found no issues with the government's plan to downgrade the legal status of the novel coronavirus to a level on par with seasonal influenza on May 8.

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana on Slander Case against President Gustavo Petro

Former Colombian President Andres Pastrana is called to conciliation with President Gustavo Petro for slander and libel by the Colombian Prosecutor's Office, on January 30, 2024, in Bogota, Colombia. Photo by: Cristian Bayona/Long Visual Press/ABACAPRESS.COM

China issues white paper on legal framework, measures for counterterrorism

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CHINA-ANHUI-BENGBU-ENTERPRISES-INT'L LEGAL SERVICES(CN)

CHINA-ANHUI-BENGBU-ENTERPRISES-INT'L LEGAL SERVICES(CN)

(231221) -- HEFEI, Dec. 21, 2023 (Xinhua) -- Wang Min, executive director of a law firm, consults a Tanzanian lawyer about legal issues of foreign investment in Tanzania via video link at Bengbu Global One Hour Foreign Legal Service Center in Bengbu, east China's Anhui Province, Dec. 5, 2023. TO GO WITH "Across China: Int'l legal services help enterprises go global" (Xinhua/Guo Chen)

Japan formally decides to downgrade COVID-19 to flu level on May 8

Japan formally decides to downgrade COVID-19 to flu level on May 8

A Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry panel convenes a meeting in Tokyo on April 27, 2023, where it found no issues with the government's plan to downgrade the legal status of the novel coronavirus to a level on par with seasonal influenza on May 8.

China issues white paper on law-based cyberspace governance in new era

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Russia, Egypt hope for revival of Palestinian-Israeli talks: Lavrov

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U.S. ruling on abortion reveals politicization of women's rights: Chilean professor

STORY: U.S. ruling on abortion reveals politicization of women's rights: Chilean professor DATELINE: July 12, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:33 LOCATION: Santiago CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of people protesting in America 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): ISAAC RAVETLLAT BALLESTE, Professor of Legal and Social Sciences at University of Talca in Chile 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): ISAAC RAVETLLAT BALLESTE, Professor of Legal and Social Sciences at University of Talca in Chile STORYLINE: A Chilean professor said the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling on abortion is not just about women's rights, but revealed deep-seated politicization on the issue. By overturning Roe v. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated constitutional protection to abortion rights. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): ISAAC RAVETLLAT BALLESTE, Professor of Legal and Social Sciences at University of Talca in Chile "I believe that this is an error, in which there are certain issues that sell to the electorate, because certain promises are being made to get vote

GLOBALink | Putin, Bennett discuss Ukraine over phone

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Okinawa gov. attends court proceedings over base relocation

Okinawa gov. attends court proceedings over base relocation

Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga meets with reporters at the prefectural office on Feb. 15, 2016, after attending court proceedings at the Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court in Naha. The court is examining legal issues related to the planned relocation of a U.S. military base within the island prefecture, which the local government opposes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Experts question legal requirement of surgery to change gender

Experts question legal requirement of surgery to change gender

Panelists at a Tokyo symposium, organized by the Japan Federation of Bar Associations, discuss legal issues involving those with gender identity disorder on Sept. 22, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

New Okinawa minister defends budget policy as U.S. base battle drags on

New Okinawa minister defends budget policy as U.S. base battle drags on

Tetsuma Esaki, Japan's new minister in charge of Okinawa issues, speaks at a press conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Aug. 3, 2017, after his appointment in a Cabinet reshuffle. Esaki defended the idea that funding from the national budget for the island prefecture's development should be linked to the fate of a key U.S. air base at the center of an ongoing legal fight between the central and prefectural governments. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Diet begins ordinary session

Diet begins ordinary session

Emperor Akihito (far R) arrives at the parliament building in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2017, at the start of an ordinary session. Debate is likely to focus on legal issues surrounding the potential abdication of the emperor and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push for constitutional revision. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Diet begins ordinary session

Diet begins ordinary session

Emperor Akihito visits the House of Councillors in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2017, as parliament starts an ordinary session. Debate is likely to focus on legal issues surrounding the potential abdication of the emperor and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push for constitutional revision. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Diet begins ordinary session

Diet begins ordinary session

Emperor Akihito visits the House of Councillors in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2017, as parliament starts an ordinary session. Debate is likely to focus on legal issues surrounding the potential abdication of the emperor and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push for constitutional revision. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Diet begins ordinary session

Diet begins ordinary session

Emperor Akihito visits the House of Councillors in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2017, as parliament starts an ordinary session. Debate is likely to focus on legal issues surrounding the potential abdication of the emperor and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push for constitutional revision. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Diet begins ordinary session

Diet begins ordinary session

Emperor Akihito visits the House of Councillors in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2017, as parliament starts an ordinary session. Debate is likely to focus on legal issues surrounding the potential abdication of the emperor and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push for constitutional revision. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo