The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Tuesday proposed new rules to cut methane emissions by the oil and gas industry, as part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to taking action on climate change. The new measures will reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and volatile organic compounds (VOG) from the oil and gas industry, [...]

The president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir , on Monday withheld from signing a peace agreement between the government and rebel forces meant to end the country’s ongoing civil war. The South Sudanese conflict has been ongoing between the two parties since 2013, and has resulted in tens of thousands of lives lost and more [...]

Migrants who set up a tent city in Athens, Greece have begun being relocated, said Greek authorities on Sunday. Many migrants coming from Afghanistan, Syria, and other countries migrated to the country to escape violence and with more than 130,000 migrants coming in the last year alone, a strain has been put on Greece’s finite [...]

The fighting in Yemen between Huthi militias and anti-Huthi armed groups has indiscriminately killed and wounded civilians with unlawful airstrikes in civilian neighborhoods, according to a report issued Tuesday by Amnesty International (AI) . All parties to the conflict have also engaged in ground crossfire in civilian areas, and AI believes that these attacks may [...]

The chair of the African Union (AU) , Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma , expressed concern that Burundi’s recent violence could be “catastrophic” for not only Burundi itself, but surrounding countries as well. Burundi erupted in violence in April when President Pierre Nkurunziza began his campaign for a constitutionally unsupported third term amid protests and a failed coup. [...]

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced on Monday that it has approved a permit for Royal Dutch Shell to drill off the coast of Alaska in the Arctic Ocean. Shell was approved because it acquired a piece of equipment designed to shut an oil well in the event of an emergency loss of [...]

Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council on Monday rejected calls from protesters for the resignation of the country’s most senior Supreme Court judge. The demand for Judge Medhat Mahmoud to “retire” came as part of demands for governmental reform and the end of judicial corruption by tens of thousands of citizens protesting on Friday. According to Supreme [...]

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Monday approved a 54-article counter-terrorism law which has been met with significant controversy as many believe it to be an infringement on freedom of the press. Many have said that the law defines “terrorism” broadly and gives free reign to law enforcement agents as to force allowed in defending [...]

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Monday declined to assert jurisdiction over whether Northwestern University football players can form a union, overturning its 2014 decision which recognized the players as university employees. In its unanimous decision , which concerned players who receive grant-in-aid scholarships , the Board held that asserting jurisdiction “would not promote [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Amaury A. Reyes-Torres of the Iberoamerican University (UNIBE) discusses the legal developments of same-sex marriage in Europe… Quite recently, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rendered a landmark decision in the protection of rights of same-sex couples under the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR): Oliari and Others v. Italy. However, [...]