China sent 25 warplanes into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone on Monday, the largest breach of that space since the island began regularly reporting such activity in September, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said.

Countries: Burundi, United Republic of Tanzania Source: UN Human Rights Council Arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances have allegedly been carried out by the Tanzanian police and intelligence services in cooperation with the Burundian intelligence services, the experts said.

Corals in the tropics are facing a variety of environmental threats, climate change among them. Warming and acidifying oceans pose an existential risk to fragile corals as frequent mass bleaching episodes have shown. Encouragingly, some species of coral are hardier than others and so they may be able to withstand […]

Over the past several years, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit appeared poised to sanction a generous approach to certifying proposed classes under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.1 Recently, however, the 9th Circuit has taken steps to tighten up the rigor of the […]

K&L Gates LLP recently advised Evoqua Water Technologies Corp. (Evoqua) and certain of its subsidiaries on a multi-currency senior secured revolving credit facility in an aggregate principal amount of $350 million (including a letter of credit sub-facility of $60 million) and a senior secured term loan facility in the principal […]

Countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations There is cautious optimism that the upsurge is winding down, especially if poor rainfall limits spring breeding and then equally poor rains occur during the summer in northeast Ethiopia and Somalia.