What is needed for the High Seas Treaty to become international law? Classified as a “mixed agreement,” the treaty needs to be ratified by both the EU and its individual member states separately.

The treaty’s roots date to Memorial Day in 1948. After a heavy spring rain, a 15-foot wall of water wiped out Vanport, Ore., a city just outside Portland that had housed thousands of shipyard ...

Indus Water Treaty, The History. In 1947, when the Partition occurred, India and Pakistan began disputing rights to the Indus River and its tributaries. The move to split, ...

The boundaries of the Mille Lacs Reservation in central Minnesota exist now as they did in 1855, a federal judge has ruled. The Friday order from U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson, benched ...

A Shuswap, B.C., compost facility that has grown well beyond its initially approved site will have to reduce its foot print to meet compliance. As per staff recommendation, ...

In the 1855 treaty, tribes ceded 10 million acres in Central Oregon — including the land where Thornburgh is slated — in exchange for preserved rights to hunt and fish in “usual and ...

European leaders signed the treaty in the Palace of Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors—the very place where the German Empire had been created, and Wilhelm II’s father made emperor, in 1871.

Treaty Day marks the Jan. 22, 1855 Treaty of Point Elliott between between the U.S. government and Indigenous tribes of the Puget Sound region. It guaranteed fishing rights and designated lands, ...

The Shuswap boasts more than 600 farms and while it’s impossible to visit them all, a collaboration between Shuswap Tourism and the Central Shuswap Regional District has attempted to make it ...

Key Background. The High Seas Treaty is the first-ever international attempt to govern international waters, which make up close to two-thirds of the world’s oceans, according to the ...

Mutual inspections were interrupted by the pandemic, then by the war in Ukraine. But now New START, the last nuclear agreement between Russia and the United States, is dying, and arms control may ...

For the Lummi Nation, the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855, now honored each Jan. 22, is the most important and powerful agreement in the world. It secured for the Lummi people the right to healthcare ...