Top UN court stops short of ordering cease-fire in Gaza and demands Israel contain deaths (apnews.com)
A new global gender divide is emerging (www.ft.com)
Middle East crisis live: ICJ ruling on case alleging genocide by Israel in Gaza and call for it to stop military action (www.theguardian.com)
Live coverage thread of the International Court of Justice and the case of South Africa vs. Israel.
Russia fires a top geneticist who claimed people could live to 900 before sins caused Biblical flood (apnews.com)
Russia’s science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious genetics institute who sparked controversy by contending that humans once lived for centuries and that the shorter lives of modern humans are due to their ancestors’ sins, state news agency RIA-Novosti said Thursday....
What the ICJ’s interim ruling means for Israel’s war on Gaza (www.aljazeera.com)
“Israeli politicians have already said that they’re going to ignore the ICJ order,” Mark Lattimer, the executive director of Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights, told Al Jazeera. “It is much harder for, particularly, the US and European states including the UK, to ignore the order because they have a much stronger...
Many thousands turn out for Invasion Day protests (nit.com.au)
Tens of thousands of protesters have turned out for Invasion Day and Survival Day rallies around the nation calling for change, with major events held in every capital city. Demonstrators in Melbourne...
BJP is more dangerous than Coronavirus, says Stalin (www.thehindu.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/11206822...
Ben Gvir slams ICJ as antisemitic, says Israel should ignore ruling on provisional measures (www.timesofisrael.com)
Seoul court approves seizure of Japan firm's funds over wartime labor (english.kyodonews.net)
South Korean court has granted a request to seize funds deposited by Japanese shipbuilder Hitachi Zosen Corp., made by a plaintiff who seeks compensation related to a wartime labor lawsuit, a lawyer in the case said Wednesday....
US ‘disappointed’ Hungary taking so long to approve Sweden joining Nato (www.theguardian.com)
Washington’s ambassador says Budapest is ‘really alone’ and describes its foreign policy as a ‘fantasy’...
UN agency fires staff members allegedly involved in October 7 attacks | CNN (www.cnn.com)
Climate change forces African migrants into dangerous treks by sea, desert (abcnews.go.com)
“We rely on the sea but there is nothing left in this sea.”...
Panama Canal Drought Slows Cargo Traffic (www.nytimes.com)
I’ll note that the Washington Post is also running an opinion piece titled A dry Panama Canal shows how climate change will scramble globalization...
Ecuador police destroy over 20 metric tons of cocaine (news.yahoo.com)
QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean Police on Thursday destroyed some 21.5 metric tons of cocaine which they seized over the weekend as part of a military offensive declared by the government to combat organized crime....
China warns citizens against 'exotic beauty' traps of foreign spies (www.bbc.com)
China has warned its citizens against “exotic beauties” seeking to lure them into the hands of foreign spy agencies....
EU threatens to silence Hungary if it blocks Ukrainian funds (www.politico.eu)
Leaders may consider invoking the “nuclear option” of kicking Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán out of the EU voting process....
Only five bodies delivered to Belgorod morgue after mysterious Russian plane crash, Ukrainian intelligence suggests (www.cnn.com)
Ukraine says it has intelligence suggesting only five bodies were delivered from the crash site of a Russian military transport plane to a nearby morgue, a Ukraine military intelligence official told CNN, casting doubt on Moscow’s claim that dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed in the explosion....
State Dept. pauses funding for UN agency amid allegations employees involved in Israel attack: Any UNRWA employee involved will be prosecuted, the agency warned. (abcnews.go.com)
UN agency investigates staff suspected of role in 7 October attack on Israel (www.theguardian.com)
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday it had opened an investigation into several employees suspected of involvement in the 7 October attacks in Israel by Hamas, and that it had severed ties with those staff members....
Putin Sends US Signal on Ukraine Talks, Sensing Advantage in War (www.bloomberg.com)
"Vladimir Putin is testing the waters on whether the U.S. is ready to engage in talks for ending Russia’s war in Ukraine,” Bloomberg reports....
Thai woman charged over lion cub filmed cruising resort in Bentley (www.theguardian.com)
Sawangjit Kosoognern charged with illegal possession after video showing animal being driven around Pattaya gains 2.6m views...
Israel Builds Buffer Zone Along Gaza Border, Risking New Rift With U.S. (archive.ph)
Beginning last November, an Israeli soldier and members of his reserve unit worked day after day in a northern section of the Gaza Strip to create a wasteland....
Over 2,200 people victim of sexual abuse by German church staff (www.euronews.com)
The authors of the report estimate that at least 3,500 people have committed sexual abuse and say that the figures are only “the tip of the tip of the iceberg”....
U.N. agency probes staff suspected of role in Oct. 7 attacks on Israel (www.reuters.com)
Russian forces employing new poison gas grenades, says armament research centre (www.pravda.com.ua)
