The Danish parliament on Thursday approved a bill giving new powers to the Energy, Supply and Climate ministry related to the Nord Stream-2 pipeline. The pipeline, built by Russian petroleum giant Gazprom , will carry natural gas from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea. The proposed route passes through Danish territorial waters. Previously, Danish [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda confirmed Thursday that her office will not investigate a 2010 Israeli attack against a Gaza bound Turkish flotilla. After a presentation of new facts and information, Bensouda concluded that there was not “sufficient gravity” to support a legal action under the Rome statute . Bensouda stated: In [...]
The Higher Regional Court in Celle, Germany, on Wednesday ruled that Oskar Groening, a former Auschwitz guard known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz,” is not too elderly to serve a four-year prison sentence. The now 96-year-old former Nazi SS guard was convicted and sentenced as an accessory to the murder of more than 300,000 people [...]
Recently, professors at Carnegie Mellon University have proposed a method to reform redistricting and avoid partisan gerrymandering. The plan proposed by the CMU professors would seek to take advantage of each party’s self-interest to create fairer and less partisan maps. In the abstract, the professors call their method “I-cut-you-freeze.” The abstract compares this method to [...]
The US House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would allow gun owners with state-issued concealed carry permits to carry their guns into other states that also allow concealed carrying. The bill would amend chapter 44 of Title 18 of the federal criminal code and require individuals be eligible to possess and transport [...]
A group of UN human rights experts issued an urgent call for action Thursday in order to realize the right to development. The Declaration on the Right to Development was originally adopted on December 4, 1986. The document establishes development as a human right and establishes that all people are entitled to “participate in, contribute [...]
An Argentine judicial panel on Wednesday sentenced 29 former officials to life in prison, and 19 to between 8-25 years for murder and torture during the junta’s 1976-1983 “Dirty War” . The sentencing concluded a five-year trial and represented Argentina’s largest verdict to date for crimes against humanity. Collectively, the 48 defendants were charged with [...]
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) extradited 75-year-old Inocente Orlando Montano, a former El Salvador colonel, to Spain to face charges for his alleged involvement in the 1989 murder of eight individuals that included six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and the housekeeper’s 16-year-old daughter during the country’s decade-long civil war strife. The murders occurred in [...]
Saudi Arabian authorities released Prince Miteb bin Abdullah from custody on Tuesday after reaching an estimated $1 billion settlement agreement concerning corruption allegations,
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Carpenter v. United States , a case concerning law enforcement officers’ authority to collect an individual’s cell phone records to track his movements over an extended period of time. This case arose from petitioner Timothy Carpenter’s conviction for armed robbery, for which he was sentenced [...]
