When the rights-based system applies only to some, double standards are reinforced, and impunity spreads. The world is heading towards a dangerous place where selective government outrage and “a la carte” application of international law are becoming the norm. The result is already damning: a crisis of credibility and the…
The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has warned that Israel will “pay the price” for air raids that killed at least 10 civilians and three Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon. Five children were among those killed on Wednesday in the deadliest day for Lebanese civilians in four months of hostilities across…
Dozens of Palestinians leave besieged Nasser Hospital in southern city of Khan Younis after Israeli forces order an evacuation. Here’s how things stand on Thursday, February 15, 2024: Humanitarian crisis in Gaza Dozens of Palestinians were seen leaving the besieged Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis after Israeli…
EXPLAINER As civilian casualties continue to mount in Gaza, global calls for countries to halt arms sales to Israel grow. The United States Senate has approved a bill committing $14bn to support Israel’s war on Gaza this week. Even before the start of the war last October, the US firmly…
Muhammad Shadab had gone to pray in his neighbourhood mosque in Indian-administered Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar when he was given a questionnaire by the mosque’s management. The questionnaire was part of a so-called survey by the disputed region’s police, seeking his personal details, including phone numbers of family members,…
The soldiers are part of a Southern African contingent deployed to fight the many armed groups roaming eastern DR Congo. South Africa said on Thursday that two of its soldiers had been killed by mortar fire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the first fatalities since it deployed troops…
In late January, Hattan Alsaif became the first female fighter from Saudi Arabia to sign up with a major global mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion, the Professional Fighters League (PFL). Alsaif, 22, won gold at the 2023 International Federation of Muaythai Associations World Championships, where she was awarded Breakthrough Female…
South Africa is deploying thousands of troops to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to help the country resist rebel attacks which are driving one of Africa’s most serious humanitarian crises. On Thursday, the South African military said two of its soldiers had been killed and three wounded by a…
NASA, the main sponsor with experiments on board, hopes to jumpstart lunar economy ahead of astronaut missions. A lunar lander has taken off for the moon in a bid to make the first United States landing since the Apollo missions more than half a century ago and the first achieved…
Khan Younis, Gaza – Lying on a bed at the European Hospital in southern Gaza, hidden behind bandages that enveloped his disfigured face, five-year-old Ahmed Abu Zariaan remained unidentified for more than a week. The injured boy was one of a growing number of children in the war-torn enclave to…
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