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Germany rejects allegation of aiding genocide in Gaza at ICJ
Germany says 98 percent of arms exports to Israel since October 7 were equipment like vests, helmets and binoculars.
Categories: South Asia
The app helping people boycott brands supporting Israel
A new app in the US is helping people to boycott businesses deemed to be supporting Israel and its war on Gaza.
Categories: South Asia
Virtual Roundtable: Spillovers to Global Growth From Emerging Markets
Emerging markets now account for close to half of world GDP. With China possibly in a protracted slowdown, it is now important to ask whether swings in the outlook for emerging economies can drive the cycle in the G7. Please join our speakers and the authors of the paper, Andres Fernandez Martin and Andrea Presbitero of the IMF, for a discussion of the IMF World Economic Outlook paper, “Trading Places: Real Spillovers from G20 Emerging Markets.”
Categories: Defense Policy
Hope and anger in Gaza as talks to stop Israel’s war reconvene
As ceasefire talks continue, Palestinians are angry at the international community, which they feel has let them down.
Categories: South Asia
A knotty question of parent liability in the Crumbley school shooting case
The parents of a US school shooter have been found guilty of manslaughter. What message does their sentencing send?
Categories: South Asia
My Father, Nour and I: Confronting intergenerational trauma
A refugee from Iraq looks into his family’s past and wonders if his childhood trauma will affect his young son.
Categories: South Asia
Trump and the US media’s conflict of interest
This election year, each story about Donald Trump must first pass the Lonely Planet test.
Categories: South Asia
South Africa’s Jacob Zuma wins court bid to contest upcoming election
South Africa's electoral court overturns earlier decision that had barred the ex-president from contesting the polls.
Categories: South Asia
Simon Harris becomes Ireland’s youngest-ever prime minister
The 37-year-old replaces Leo Varadkar, who said he was quitting as party leader and PM for personal, political reasons.
Categories: South Asia
How has the genocide against the Tutsis affected Rwanda’s youth?
Rwandan youth are actively fighting against genocide ideology through community organising, filmmaking and writing.
Categories: South Asia
‘Let states decide’: How Donald Trump’s position on abortion has changed
Trump has not called for a national abortion ban, disappointing anti-abortion activists. How has his stance changed?
Categories: South Asia
What do Texan red heifers have to do with Al-Aqsa and a Jewish temple?
Temple Movement's plan to sacrifice the cattle seen as step towards its goal of building the Third Temple over Al-Aqsa.
Categories: South Asia
European Parliament urges inquiry after Al Jazeera Senegal investigation
Investigation revealed EU-trained Senegalese police tackling cross-border crime worked to quash pro-democracy protests.
Categories: South Asia
After deadly attack, Russia’s Central Asian workers report rising racism
Migrants say they are being collectively punished as Tajik nationals are suspected of last month's concert hall attack.
Categories: South Asia
As Palestine applies for full UN membership, what’s in the way?
History set to be repeated as US prepares to wield veto, insisting Palestine must negotiate statehood with Israel first.
Categories: South Asia
Top European court hands Swiss women victory in landmark climate ruling
Verdict will have ripple effect in Europe and beyond, likely setting precedent for how courts deal with climate cases.
Categories: South Asia
Bodies recovered from Gaza’s Shifa hospital after Israeli assault
Palestinians have been recovering bodies and remains of people killed at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital.
Categories: South Asia
Israel’s war on Gaza: List of key events, day 186
PM Netanyahu says a date has been set for a ground offensive in Rafah after troops withdraw from nearby Khan Younis.
Categories: South Asia
Israel’s war on Gaza: List of key events, day 186
PM Netanyahu says a date has been set for a ground offensive in Rafah after troops withdraw from nearby Khan Younis.
Categories: South Asia
Israel’s war is depriving Gaza’s students of an education
Dentistry student Tasneem Ahel fled north Gaza in the hope of making it overseas to complete her education.
Categories: South Asia
