CLIMATE: The International Court of Justice announced today that if countries fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, they could be in violation of international law.

The court also said countries harmed by climate change could be entitled to reparations for the damage they have suffered from rising global temperatures, but what they are owed should be determined on a “case-by-case” basis.

GERMANY: A court today acquitted a satirist who was charged with having approved of an assassination attempt against Donald Trump during last year’s United States election campaign in a social media post and disturbed the public peace.

In a quickly deleted post under his alias “El Hotzo” on X in July last year, Sebastian Hotz drew a parallel between Mr Trump and “the last bus” and wrote “unfortunately just missed.” In a follow-up post, he wrote: “I find it absolutely fantastic when fascists die.”

NORTHERN IRELAND: A shooting in a rural area of Northern Ireland left two people dead and two others seriously wounded, police said today.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland said that there was no ongoing risk to the public in the village of Maguiresbridge, about 75 miles south-west of Belfast.

There was no immediate word on a motive.

RUSSIA: Lawmakers on Tuesday approved a Bill that punishes online searches for information that is deemed “extremist.”

The Bill passed by the State Duma, moves for endorsement in the upper house and then goes to President Vladimir Putin to be signed into law.

The legislation punishes those “deliberately searching for and accessing extremist materials” online.