The German cabinet approved a draft bill Wednesday named “Act on the Controlled Use of Cannabis and Amending Other Regulations” that would legalize the controlled use of recreational cannabis. The legislation, based on a paper presented by Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach and Federal Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir, seeks to address the limitations [...]
The Director General of the Swedish Security Service raised the nation’s terrorist threat level to its second-highest, according to a Thursday press release from the Security Service. The Security Service said the decision to raise the terrorist threat level was “not linked to any specific event, but is to be considered in a strategic, long-term [...]
During a virtual UN conference Wednesday, the UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown called for the prosecution of Taliban leaders through proceedings at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the current “gender apartheid” in Afghanistan. Brown underscored the deprivation of education and employment for Afghan girls and women as profoundly grave transgressions against [...]
The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) called for an immediate end to the recent violence in Libya’s capital Tripoli Tuesday. The statement called for peace following the most recent clashes: The United Nations Support Mission in Libya is following with concern security incidents and developments in Tripoli since yesterday and their impact on the [...]
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows asked a Georgia federal court on Tuesday to take up the criminal case against him. Meadows was indicted with former US President Donald Trump and 17 others by a Fulton County, Georgia grand jury on Monday over their attempts to overturn the 2020 US presidential election in [...]
According to the UN International Organization for Migration Sudan (IOM Sudan), more than 4.4 million people have been forced to flee Sudan and over 1 million people have sought refuge outside of Sudan due to the “disastrous and senseless” war, which has entered its fifth month, between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Wednesday to restrict the use of mifepristone, an abortion pill, by prohibiting its delivery by mail or prescription via telemedicine. However, the ruling will not take immediate effect due to an April ruling from the US Supreme Court temporarily protecting access to the drug. The [...]
Police in Marion County, Kansas must return items seized during an August 11 raid of a local newspaper office after Marion County Attorney Joel Ensey found on Wednesday that police had “insufficient evidence” to search the office in the first place. In conjunction with Ensey’s statement, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) said an investigation [...]
The Chief Minister of the Indian state of Uttarakhand, Pushkar Singh Dhami, announced Tuesday the withdrawal of cases filed against students during 2022 anti-Agnipath protests. In his Independence Day speech, the Chief Minister declared that the cases filed against students protesting against the Indian government’s Agnipath scheme for military recruitment will be withdrawn shortly, as [...]
“The existence of `system’ in the world is obvious to every observer of nature, no matter whom.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (1959) Whether conspicuous or obscure, terrorism generally presents itself as a systemic challenge. This means, inter alia, that seemingly singular strategic and legal matters may actually be many-sided and interrelated. Regarding legal issues, though [...]
