The law is not going to be enforced in the short term because the court has basely told the government it can carry on pretending that law doesn't exist. But there are promising signs that attitudes in singapore are changing. Servidata shows that a majority of young people believe that gay people should have the right to get married. And that does give kail and ushen hope for the future of their country.
It appears that Russian forces are withdrawing from Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, to focus on the eastern region of Donbas. We examine what the shifting tactics signify. A court in Singapore has refused to strike a colonial-era anti-gay law from its books, despite the fact it is never enforced; we ask why. And what’s behind Bolivia’s preponderance of contraband Japanese cars.
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