An ex-German Army officer was sentenced on Monday to three years and six months in prison by the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court for working for the Russian government as an agent and passing official secrets. The defendant, according to the prosecution, passed information to the Russian secret service which he obtained while working at the [...]
US Congressman, Michael McCaul, said at a press conference Monday in Taipei that the weapons Taiwan had ordered were on their way. The Republican chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee told reporters that the war games from China on Monday, were an “intimidation tactic” to punish democracy and that deterrence was key. He told [...]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) announced Monday that it filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Palestinian journalists being killed or injured during their work in Gaza. In the complaint, RSF asks the court to investigate crimes against no less than nine Palestinian reporters since December 15, 2023 and the killing of more [...]
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) on Monday began its first day of public hearings in Brazil to address the human rights obligations of states concerning the climate crisis, based on the American Convention on Human Rights. According to the IACHR’s press release, the hearings were marked by discussions on mitigating the effects of [...]
The EU allocated an amount of €2.12 ($2.31) billion under its pledge on Monday to support Syria and neighbouring countries in the region for 2024 and 2025 amid the dire humanitarian situation in the country. The pledge, announced during the eighth edition of the Brussels Conference on ‘Supporting the future of Syria and the region’, [...]
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday that Russia is removing the Taliban from the country’s list of prohibited terrorist organizations, according to state-run news outlet RIA Novosti. According to the special representative of the Russian president for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, Russia’s Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Justice told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the [...]
The University of Toronto’s President Meric Gertler announced on Monday that the university’s lawyers requested an injunction order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to end pro-Palestinian encampment on campus. The encampments started on May 2, 2024, with demands from student protesters including the university’s disclosure of its investments, divestment from weapons manufacturing companies [...]
The Philippines protested China’s imposition of a unilateral, four-month fishing ban in the South China Sea, its Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) stated in a press release on Monday. The ban has been imposed annually since 1999 and is expected to last until September 16 this year. Calling on China to “cease and desist from [...]
The Japanese prime minister’s office issued an emergency warning through its J-Alert nationwide warning system on Monday, urging residents in southern Japan to take cover indoors or in a sheltered area due to the possible threat of a North Korean ballistic missile. Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan Yoshimasa Hayashi said that the missile disappeared from [...]
Police in Sargodha, Pakistan filed a first information report against 500 people on Sunday for allegedly engaging in mob violence against a Christian man accused of desecrating the Quran a day before in Sargodha’s Mujahid Colony, according to local news outlet Pakistan Today. The report against the 500 people invoked sections 7 and 11WW of [...]
