‘Every Day Is Hard’: One Year Since Russia Jailed Evan Gershkovich In a notorious high-security prison, Evan Gershkovich of The Wall Street Journal stays connected with supporters through letters as they keep up the pressure for his release. Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents ‘heartbroken’ for ’empathetic’ son who wanted to ‘do good on a large scale’ Before sentencing Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison, a federal judge delivered a stinging rebuke of the disgraced cryptocurrency mogul that is at odds with the sympathetic portrait offered by his Stanford Law school parents. |
Australia revises export law that could have hit global research collaboration The Australian Parliament. Photo credits: Neale Cousland / BigStock A controversial technology export law has passed the Australian Parliament after being amended to better exempt basic and applied public research, relieving universities who worried it could hit their global research collaborations, including in Europe. The Defence Trade Controls Amendment Bill 2024 passed on 27 March after month… |