North Korea’s army of hackers stole hundreds of millions of dollars throughout much of 2020 to fund the country’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs in violation of international law, according to a confidential United Nations report.

Summary The English Commercial Court has emphasized the difficulties airline operators and aviation lessees could face in seeking to rely on the common law doctrine of “frustration” in order to avoid their payment obligations under leases, especially where such leases contain “hell or high water” provisions and where they make […]

Countries: Ethiopia, Sudan Source: European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations It is estimated that thousands of fighters and civilians have died, and about 4.5 million people require emergency food assistance, of whom an estimated 2.2 million are displaced.

People damage their health in various ways and one of those ways is to continue to use fossil fuels. In 2018 alone more than 8 million people died from fossil fuel-related pollution, according to new research. Researchers at Harvard University in the United States, working with colleagues at the University […]

DNA analysis of teeth and other fossilized remains from five caves in China has suggested that it was unlikely early modern humans were in China as early as 100,000 years ago.

Introduction What do you get when you cross allegedly defective refrigerators, a dangerous chemical agent, and a hotly contested topic in class action practice? The answer is: a precedential opinion from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit that clarifies the boundaries of the ascertainability requirement and minimizes […]

Pangolins have had it rough in the wild. They are being poached relentlessly for their scales, which practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine believe (falsely) to have curative properties. Their meat, too, is in high demand in countries like Vietnam and China as a delicacy. Unless conservation efforts of all eight […]