The European Court of Human rights (ECHR) ruled Thursday that Italy did not violate the rights of a man with HIV (which had possibly developed into AIDS) by keeping him in a general prison and exposing him to the risk of catching COVID-19. The applicant was a man born in 1997 who lived in Varese, [...]

The Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina has temporarily suspended a new school curriculum in the Republika Srpska under which elementary school students would be taught about the “achievements” of convicted war criminals Ratko Mladić and Radovan Karadzic. A statement from the court Friday said that the court found: would have serious and irremediable detrimental [...]

UN deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq stated in a briefing Friday that “aid entering Gaza is at its lowest level in months. No one has received food parcels in this month due to constrained access of aid supplies.” The UN reported that bakeries are shutting all around the Palestinian-occupied territory in Gaza as bakers cannot secure [...]

Eighty Pakistan police officers were injured in a protest rally held by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) against the arbitrary detention of ex-prime minister Imran Khan, according to statements made by Interior Minister Moshin Navqi. The rally was held Saturday, converging on Islamabad’s D Chowk plaza. Navqi said that the protesters, led by the chief minister [...]

Two people were killed during a French police operation in New Caledonia on Thursday, according to French media. The police operation took place amid unrest between French loyalists and indigenous Kanak people in the territory. French forces took to the streets of San Louis in Le Mont-Dore, New Caledonia, and targeted people wanted for armed [...]

The British government announced Wednesday it will pass legislation to control 16 drugs that were not previously regulated. Among the soon-to-be-regulated substances was xylazine, a controversial veterinary medication known as a “zombie drug,” which causes exhaustion and skin lesions that resist healing. Caroline Copeland, the director of the National Programme on Substance Use Morality and [...]

The UK foreign secretary David Lammy announced on Monday that 30 out of 350 arms export licenses to Israel would be immediately suspended, as the export of certain arms to Israel may allegedly risk breaching international humanitarian law and the UK’s strategic export controls. Lammy said that the trade and business secretary would not suspend [...]

The Greek Coast Guard confirmed on Friday that they opened fire on a boat of Turkish migrants and killed one man, according to local media sources. The migrants were allegedly agitating the coast guard by rocking the latter’s boat, which prompted the crew to fire “warning shots” before shooting at the migrants. In their statement, [...]

A new law came into force in Hungary on Wednesday limiting which Ukrainian refugees can access subsidized housing. Only those from areas that are deemed to be most affected by the Russian invasion will be eligible for the long term. The new law excludes individuals arriving from, among other regions, Transcarpathia. This has been a [...]

A 15-year-old boy in Sunderland became the first person in England to be charged with the offence of rioting under s1 of the Public Order Act 1968 by the Criminal Prosecution Service (CPS) on Thursday after violent anti-immigrant protests broke out across the UK. The charge of riot holds a maximum penalty of 10 years [...]