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Turkey is joining South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which accuses Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan made the announcement in Ankara on Wednesday. He said the legal details of taking part in the lawsuit were still be worked out. At the end of December, South Africa took Israel to the top UN court in The Hague for alleged violations of the Genocide Convention. South Africa contends that Israel is committing "systematic" acts of genocide in Gaza, citing examples of military violence and st...
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Dangerous levels of acute hunger affected a staggering 281.6 million people last year - the fifth year in a row that food insecurity has worsened - heightening growing fears of famine and "widespread death" from Gaza to Sudan and beyond, UN agencies warned on Wednesday. According to the latest Global Report on Food Crises, more than one in five people in 59 countries faced acute food insecurity in 2023, compared with around just one in 10 in 48 countries in 2016. "When we talk about acute food insecurity, we are talking about hunger so severe that it poses an immediate threat to people's livel...
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A fourth and penultimate round of talks on a United Nations treaty to combat plastic pollution will begin in the Canadian capital Ottawa on Tuesday. Representatives from more than 170 countries are expected to attend the negotiations, which are scheduled to run until next Monday. "This negotiation is pivotal," said UN Environment Programme official Jyoti Mathur-Filipp. "It is an opportunity to make significant progress for a robust agreement that would allow future generations to live in a world free of plastic pollution." Pressure is rising on delegates to reach a draft agreement ahead of the...
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The Palestinian leadership in the West Bank wants to reconsider its bilateral relations with the United States following Washington's veto in the United Nations Security Council of full UN membership for Palestine. "The United States has violated all international laws and disregarded all promises regarding the two-state solution and achieving peace in the region," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the official Palestinian news agency WAFA on Saturday. The US must recognize that the region will not stabilize without a just solution to the Palestinian question issue, Abbas continued. "We...
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German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke plans to travel to Ottawa on Saturday for UN talks on a global plastic pollution treaty, her ministry announced in Berlin on Tuesday. On Sunday, Lemke is to hold talks with her Canadian counterpart Steven Guilbeault ahead of the fourth session of the UN's intergovernmental negotiating committee on the issue. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to open the conference on Monday. The UN talks are aimed at a fresh attempt at a legally binding international treaty on reducing plastic waste, including in the marine environment, to be agreed by the end o...
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Israel has requested that the UN Security Council hold an emergency meeting on Sunday to condemn Iran's attack on Israel and designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization. Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan sent an urgent letter to the president of the Security Council, Vanessa Frazier, calling for the meeting. "The Iranian attack is a serious threat to global peace and security and I expect the Council to use every means to take concrete action against Iran," he posted on X, formerly Twitter. Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles targeting Israel in re...
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The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to immediately allow the delivery of significantly more humanitarian goods to the Gaza Strip. The United Nations' highest court in The Hague ordered on Thursday that more border crossings should be opened for the transport of food and medical aid. The court was responding to a request from South Africa in the ongoing genocide proceedings against Israel. At the end of January, the court had already ordered emergency measures and ordered Israel to do everything possible to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip. Given the deteriorating situation ...
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The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to immediately allow the delivery of significantly more humanitarian goods to the Gaza Strip. The United Nations' highest court in The Hague ordered on Thursday that more border crossings should be opened for the transport of food and medical aid. The court was responding to a request from South Africa in the ongoing genocide proceedings against Israel. At the end of January, the court had already ordered emergency measures and ordered Israel to do everything possible to prevent genocide in the Gaza Strip. Given the deteriorating situation ...
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A planned UN Security Council vote on a resolution calling for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza war during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has been postponed until Monday. A vote had originally been scheduled for Saturday, but was delayed at the last minute, with diplomats continuing negotiations behind closed doors to make an adoption of the draft resolution more likely, dpa understands. On Friday, Russia and China vetoed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. The latest draft resolution calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire for Ramad...
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The UN Security Council on Friday failed again to pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas, this time after Russia and China vetoed it. The resolution, introduced by the United States after it had vetoed previous resolutions but had a change of heart following the more than 31,000 deaths in Gaza, was called half-hearted by Russia's UN ambassador Vasily Nebenzia. He said the measure did not call for a ceasefire clearly enough. The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, campaigned strongly in favour of the resolution immediately before the vote, sa...
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