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The ruling covers announced layoffs and any planned while the order is in effect, potentially including 1,400 Treasury Department workers.

At the time, the UN and some Western nations said that they would only consider a ruling by a court that genocide is taking place as authoritative.

Concordia must immediately reinstate the women’s teams and provide them “with funding, staffing, and all other benefits commensurate with their status as varsity intercollegiate teams,” Slaughter wrote in a 19-page ruling.

Georgia's ruling party said Tuesday it has asked the Constitutional Court to ban the three main opposition forces, a move critics condemned as a final step toward authoritarian rule.

It was a blow to climate activists after the Strasbourg court last year issued a historic first ruling condemning a state for its lack of action on climate change in another case involving Switzerland.