German court rules Forbes allegations against Russian billionaire Usmanov used to justify EU sanctions are false (www.intellinews.com)
ICJ upholds South Africa’s case against Israel, orders measures to prevent genocide in Gaza (peoplesdispatch.org)
Yemen’s Houthis claim attack on oil tanker ‘on fire’ in Gulf of Aden (www.independent.co.uk)
Ben Gvir slams ICJ as antisemitic, says Israel should ignore ruling on provisional measures (www.timesofisrael.com)
Russia risked lives in downed plane, Volodymyr Zelensky says (www.bbc.com)
EU unlikely to confiscate Russian central bank assets - officials (www.reuters.com)
Election of the day: Tuvalu (www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com)
British Gen Z will not accept conscription as the price of previous generations’ failures (www.lbc.co.uk)
Cameroon starts world-first malaria mass vaccine rollout (www.bbc.com)
Biden freezes approvals to export U.S. gas, imperiling major projects (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Women in Gaza having c-sections without painkillers as girls use tent scraps for period products (news.sky.com)
How the World’s Deadliest Crises Go Unseen (undark.org)
French Parliament Considers Constitutionalization of Right to Abortion (peoplesdispatch.org)
LIVE: South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks after ICJ orders Israel to prevent acts of Genocide (www.youtube.com)
Israel kills dozens of academics, destroys every university in the Gaza Strip (euromedmonitor.org)
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Grenville Cross, Hong Kong's longest-serving Director of Public Prosecutions, pens open letter to UK Prime Minster Rishi Sunak (www.chinadailyhk.com)
Germany backs Netanyahu for the same reason it created Hitler (electronicintifada.net)
On 12 January, the day commemorating the 1904 revolt of the Herero people against German colonialism, Olaf Scholz’s government announced that it would intervene in the International Court of Justice to oppose South Africa’s charge of genocide against Israel. The move sparked widespread indignation....
North Korea training, providing weapons to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis (www.jpost.com)
Gaza health ministry says 20 Palestinians killed in strike on food aid queue (www.reuters.com)
U.S. and Israel Finalize Major Military Aircraft Deals Amid Gaza War (www.haaretz.com)
Progress was made toward the procurement of three new squadrons: a third squadron of F-35s with 25 planes; a new squadron of F-15s with 25 planes; and an additional squadron of Apache attack helicopters, ostensibly involving 12 aircraft. Purchases will be made using U.S. aid provided to Israel.
Ukraine floats the theory it may have been tricked into shooting down the plane Russia says was full of Ukrainian POWs (www.businessinsider.com)
-A Russian military transport plane crashed Wednesday in a border region near Ukraine....