The Polish Internal Security Agency (ABW) Thursday announced the detention of nine suspected Russian spies reportedly attempting to sabotage NATO operations. At a news conference Thursday morning, Interior Minister Mariusz Kamiński claimed the suspects were preparing “sabotage actions aimed at paralyzing the supply of equipment, weapons and aid to Ukraine.” Kamiński went on to say [...]

Large scale violent protests have erupted in Greece Thursday following a strike called by transportation workers unions. The strike was called in response to a rail disaster which occurred in February. According to Greek state news agency EPT, the previously peaceful protests descended into violence around 3 pm on Thursday afternoon when protesters allegedly began [...]

Law Students for Climate Accountability (LSCA), a non-profit coalition of law students advocating for climate justice, Thursday released a report criticizing top US law schools with a disproportionate amount of graduates entering corporate fossil fuel legal positions. LSCA argued that fossil fuel lawyers often wreak havoc on the environment by lobbying against environmental regulations, drafting [...]

The US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled Monday that Starbucks violated federal labor laws by firing two workers who were planning to organize a union at a Philadelphia store in 2020. The NLRB upheld the ruling of an administrative law judge which found that, in 2019 and 2020, Starbucks took illegal actions when it [...]

Transparency International (TI) Tuesday released its annual Corruption Perceptions Index, a comprehensive measure of corruption throughout the world. TI is a global NGO made up of legal experts and businesspeople who report on the levels of corruption throughout the world’s governments. Each country receives a score on a scale of 0-100, with 0 being incredibly [...]

In a press release Tuesday morning, UN experts called for an investigation into potential crimes against humanity committed in Mali by both government forces and the Russian paramilitary organization called the “Wagner Group.” The release stated that human rights experts at the UN have received increasingly alarming accounts of executions, mass graves, torture, sexual violence, [...]

US President Joe Biden Tuesday announced the appointment of a new Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea. The appointment will mark the first time the position has been filled since 2017. Biden nominated Julie Turner who currently serves as the director of the Office of East Asia and the Pacific in the Bureau [...]

The US Supreme Court Monday denied review of a US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decision favoring Walmart in a race bias lawsuit brought by a former pharmacist. Yves Wantou, a former pharmacist at a Walmart in Texas, filed a lawsuit against Walmart in the Western District of Texas in 2016 claiming racial [...]

The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) Monday confirmed to the AP that high ranking Russian paramilitary commander Andrey Medvedev defected to Norway and applied for asylum. This marks one of the first instances of Russian paramilitary personnel defecting to the west since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a video recorded Monday, Medvedev [...]

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Thursday proposed a new rule which would ban employers from imposing noncompetition clauses onto their workers. The new rule defines a noncompete clause as “a contractual term between an employer and a worker that prevents the worker from seeking or accepting employment with a person, or operating a business, [...]