Stockholm: More than 60% of ships involved in reported cases of sanctions-busting or illicit transfers of arms, drugs, other military equipment and sensitive dual-use goods that could be used in the development of missiles and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) are owned by companies based in the EU, NATO or other OECD states, according to [...]

New Zeland’s Department of Conservation has shot and killed 33 stranded pilot whales after several attempts to refloat them failed. These whales were a part of 99 pilot whales that were stranded at the base of Farewell Spit in Golden Bay at 11 am Monday 23 January on the outgoing tide. Department of Conservation area [...]