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Austria’s Chancellor Christian Stocker stated on Saturday that the country’s gun laws must be strengthened following a mass shooting earlier in the week. Stocker suggested multiple changes to the current gun policies, such as raising the minimum age for purchasing weapons and improving data sharing between officials to better identify warning signs. He also announced that [...]

The EU ratified the UN Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) on Wednesday, joining a global effort to protect the ocean, curb environmental damage, tackle climate change, and preserve biodiversity. Cyprus, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Portugal, and Slovenia are among the 29 Member States to ratify BBNJ, making it the largest ratification by a group of countries [...]

The Helsinki District Court in Finland on Friday sentenced a 38-year-old man to life for committing war crimes in Ukraine. Voislav Torden, 38, a Russian-Norwegian better known as Yan Petrovskiy, was a deputy leader of a neo-Nazi paramilitary unit called Rusich, during Russia’s first attacks on Ukraine in 2014. According to the prosecutors, Petrovskyi was [...]

The 2024 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) released by Transparency International on Tuesday indicates high rates of corruption worldwide, with the global average at 43 points out of 100. The organization stated that efforts to reduce corruption are floundering, as the global average has remained unchanged for years and more than 120 of the listed countries score [...]

The Council of the European Union extended its restrictive economic measures against Russia for another six months over its continued war in Ukraine on Monday. The measures will now be in force until July 31. The European sanctions against the Russian Federation currently include both sanctions on Russia itself as well as restrictions on economic [...]

A Finnish court denied on Friday the release of the oil tanker Eagle S, which was suspected of damaging undersea cables and a power line in the Baltic Sea. The Finnish authorities are also investigating potential sanctions violations involving its Russian oil cargo. The Helsinki District Court upheld the seizure of the oil tanker, which was [...]

Russia Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova threatened Sunday to implement retaliatory measures against European media outlets after Russian state media Telegram channels became inaccessible across the EU. Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that users attempting to access the Telegram channels of Russian state broadcasters, including RIA Novosti, Izvestia and RT, are being notified of [...]

The European Commission and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs condemned the deliberate destruction of electricity and data cables in the Baltic Sea, in a joint statement issued on Friday. Kaja Kallas, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, described this incident as part of a disturbing trend of attacks on infrastructure linked to Russia’s [...]

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday that “the darkest moment of the Gaza conflict is unfolding in the north of the Strip.” A year after the October 7 attack that marked the beginning of the current Gaza conflict, the international community has been unable to impose a ceasefire in [...]

Amid a broader global deterioration in rule-of-law indicators, the US has dropped six places to rank 43rd globally in measurements of “lawful transition of power,” according to the World Justice Project‘s (WJP) latest Rule of Law Index, released Wednesday. The decline comes just two weeks before the 2024 presidential election, which have proven deeply divisive [...]