EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger indicated Saturday that the EU will consider limiting the depth of offshore deepwater oil drilling or placing a temporary moratorium on deepwater drilling following the recent BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He also suggested that the EU will discuss if it needs another agency to [...]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on the Sri Lankan government to improve conditions around the body’s offices in Columbo, following several days of protests by pro-government demonstrators. The protesters have been demanding the UN end plans to have an international panel investigate allegations of human rights abuses during the last months of the [...]

The Kyrgyzstan government announced Friday that it has opened more than 1,000 criminal cases stemming from recent ethnic rioting in the country . Regional officials in Osh, an area in the south of Kyrgyzstan, announced that 106 individuals had already been detained , with 97 in custody. The violence resulted from a clash between the [...]

The Ontario Provincial Police on Thursday announced hate crimes charges against a Bangladeshi-born Canadian man after he posted comments on a website calling for the extermination of Jewish people. Salman Hossain was charged with three counts of willfully promoting hatred against an identifiable group and two counts of advocating genocide against an identifiable group, making [...]

Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin announced Friday that he is launching an investigation into the enactment of a local regulation that broadened the scope of police search and seizure powers in certain areas of Toronto during the recent Group of 20 (G-20) summit . The investigation will examine the involvement of the Ministry of Community Safety [...]

Patent holding company NTP on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Apple and several other smart phone makers for patent infringement related to the use of e-mail systems that utilize technology patented by NTP. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia , claims that NTP holds the patent to [...]

A majority of Italian media went on strike Friday to protest a bill currently under consideration that would restrict the use of wiretaps and criminalize the reporting of wiretap transcripts by the news media. The Italian press union, FNSI , called for the “day of silence” to protest the bill, which they contend will severely [...]

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) announced Friday that former Khmer Rouge leader Kaing Guek Eav , more commonly known as “Duch,” has fired his international lawyer, just weeks before the court is expected to render a judgment in the case. Kaing cited a lack of confidence in the international lawyer, stemming [...]

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday emphasized the importance of upholding the rights of immigrants in any US immigration reform proposal. In a report, Tough, Fair, and Practical , the organization called on the Obama administration and Congress to ensure that the US meets its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights [...]

Australian Privacy Commissioner Karen Curtis on Friday concluded an investigation into Google’s collection and storage of private data over unsecured wireless networks, determining that the company’s actions violated the Australia Privacy Act . Google confirmed in June that it had been inadvertently collecting and storing data obtained from streetscape pictures on unsecured wireless networks. In [...]