The court, in the Dutch city of The Hague, was established in 2002 to hold rogue leaders responsible for atrocities to account. World leaders had increasingly pushed for its creation in the wake of the Yugoslav wars and the Rwandan Genocide. It is a court of last resort, intervening only when national authorities cannot, or…
An American, two Danes and one Australian tourist died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos following reports that several people had been sickened in a town popular with backpackers. The only victim’s identity publicly released so far is 19-year-old Bianca Jones of Australia. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Parliament on Thursday that Jones had…
Kenya’s President William Ruto has cancelled two major deals involving Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, after the tycoon was indicted for fraud by US prosecutors. In his state-of-the-nation address on Thursday, Ruto said the deals had been cancelled based on “new information provided by our investigative agencies and partner nations”. The day before, Mr Adani, India’s…
Reuters Lawyers have expressed doubts over whether Netanyahu and Gallant would ever be brought to trial The announcement of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has triggered a furious response from leading Israelis across the political spectrum. By contrast it…
BBC/Joe Phua Anastasiia Bolvihina fled the besieged city of Pokrovsk with her two sons As the Russian army slowly advances in eastern Ukraine, it’s driving a tide of human suffering before it. With two months to go before a change of administration in Washington, Ukraine is wrestling with two problems: how to stem the advance,…
The Illinois Supreme Court has overturned a conviction against actor Jussie Smollett, who prosecutors accused of staging a racist and homophobic attack against himself in 2019 in Chicago. Smollett, who is black and gay, was convicted of five counts of disorderly conduct in 2021. He had claimed two men targeted him in a hate-crime, yelling…
Gautam Adani, billionaire and chairman of Adani Group, during an event at the Port of Haifa in Haifa, Israel, on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Kobi Wolf | Bloomberg | Getty Images Kenyan President William Ruto said on Thursday he had ordered the cancellation of a procurement process that had been expected to award control of…
A home with a “Sold” sign from a real estate company in North Patchogue, New York. Steve Pfost | Newsday | Getty Images A sharp drop in mortgage rates brought homebuyers off the fence in October after a slow summer. Sales of previously owned homes last month rose 3.4% from September to a seasonally adjusted,…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., attends a roundtable discussion with members of the House Freedom Caucus on the COVID-19 pandemic at The Heritage Foundation on Thursday, November 10, 2022. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., has been tapped to lead a new House subcommittee that will work…
Surveillance footage captured the moment a Siberian tiger rammed into a farm gate, moments after a man closed it. News website China Daily reported that another villager suffered a fractured wrist in a separate encounter with the animal. Authorities in north China’s Heilongjiang province warned people to be wary of wild tigers after the moment…
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