Brazilian senators investigating the handling of the country’s COVID-19 outbreak filed their final report Wednesday on whether President Jair Bolsonaro is responsible for more than 300,000 COVID-19-related deaths in Brazil. The 1200-page report follows six months of investigations by an 11-member committee into the causes of Brazil’s outbreak. The Brazilian Senate inquiry was set to [...]
Nikolas Cruz pleaded guilty on Wednesday to 17 counts of murder in relation to the 2018 shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. The 2018 shooting was the deadliest school shooting in US history. The pleas begin the sentencing hearing, which will determine whether the 23-year-old will face life in prison without parole or [...]
Former Taliban commander Haji Najibullah has pleaded not guilty in US federal court Friday to murdering three US soldiers In Afghanistan in 2008, according to Reuters. Najibullah entered the plea in a Manhattan federal court after the prosecutor unveiled the new charges last week. Haji had previously been accused of kidnapping New York Times Journalist David [...]
Austrian environmental group AllRise announced that it filed an official complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday accusing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of “crimes against humanity” for his role in the destruction of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest. The group also launched its “The Planet Vs Bolsanaro” campaign across social media following the filing of [...]
The Court of Appeal of the State of California has upheld a decision striking down a Monterey County order banning “land use in support of” fracking practices in oil and gas development. The appeals court stated that “Measure Z”, which introduced the impugned land-use policies, was preempted by state law. Section 3106 of the California Public [...]
A report released Thursday states that the vicious cycle linking natural resource depletion and violence may have gone past the point of no return in some parts of planet, and will likely be exacerbated by climate change. The second edition of the Ecological Threat Report (ETR), released by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), [...]
The Australian and Papua New Guinean (PNG) governments announced Wednesday that they have agreed to realize a joint arrangement to end offshore immigration and refugee processing by December. In a joint statement from Australia’s Karen Andrews and PNG’s Westly Nukundj detailing the agreement, the parties stated that their respective governments have finalized the Regional Resettlement [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday granted an injunction blocking California’s ban on privately run prisons in the state. Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32) aimed to phase out all privately-run detention centers within the state by 2028. A 2-1 split panel sided with GEO Group, a publicly traded real estate [...]
Former France president Nicholas Sarkozy was found guilty of illegaly financing his 2012 re-election campaign Thursday, making him the first head of state since the second world war to receive two jail terms. This was the second guilty charge for Sarkozy—he was found guilty of corruption in a separate trial six months prior when he [...]
Three more regional councils in Poland voted to repeal motions declaring their provinces “LGBT-free” areas on Monday, according to the state-run news agency Polska Agencja Prasowa (PAP). The southeastern regions of Podkarpackie, Lubelskie, and Małopolska join Swietokryskie in recanting the self-described designation. The moves come less than a week after the first polish region to drop the [...]
