Kurz receives eight month suspended sentence after being found guilty of lying to a parliamentary inquiry. Austria’s former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has received an eight-month suspended sentence after being found guilty of perjury by a Vienna court after a four-month trial. The former leader, once hailed as a “wunderkind” of…
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos can be considered children under state law, a decision that has drawn criticism from the White House and the top US infertility association. Here is more about last week’s ruling and its implications for fertility treatment in Alabama. What has the…
The United States has told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that it should not order the unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Palestinian territories without security guarantees. The ICJ, also known as the World Court, is hearing from about 50 countries throughout the week to present their arguments…
The International Court of Justice will hear from 52 countries on the legality of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories. South Africa told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague that Israel is responsible for apartheid against the Palestinians and its occupation is “inherently and fundamentally illegal”. South African…
Italy’s top court decided last year to proceed with the trial against the four officials, who will be tried in absentia. The trial of four Egyptian security agents accused of kidnapping and murdering an Italian student in Cario opened in Italy on Tuesday following a prolonged delay in the proceedings…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is making a last-ditch attempt to prevent his extradition to the United States to face criminal charges over espionage and the publication of classified information. WikiLeaks caused a diplomatic storm after it published a huge cache of secret military files in 2010 and 2011. Washington wants…
On the boarding and the signposts‘Lough Neagh Fishermen’s Co-operative’.But ever on our lips and at the weir‘The eelworks’. — “Eelworks” by Seamus Heaney Gerard McCourt is a seventh-generation eel fisherman who works the waters of Lough Neagh [Neill O’Higgins/Al Jazeera] For Gerard McCourt, there is a lot riding on this…
Top UN court notes ‘perilous’ situation but rejects South African request to order urgent measure to safeguard civilians. The top United Nations court said that it notes the “perilous” situation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but has declined South Africa’s request for urgent measures to safeguard Palestinians being…
First, she heard a ping, then the sound of something hitting her boat. It was 1975, and Norma Cagey, only 18 years old at the time, was alone with her husband on the calm waters of the Hood Canal, a tree-lined fjord in Washington state. A member of the Skokomish…
Montreal, Canada – “It would be contrary to the whole Canadian belief in freedom of the individual.” The year was 1952, and Canada’s then-minister of immigration, Walter Harris, was rebuffing the idea of tying immigrant farmworkers from Europe to their Canadian employers. “It would, of course, be possible to take…
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