Genocide
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The World Court has announced it will decide whether it shall hear a case brought by Ukraine accusing Russia of violating international law on Friday. Russia has justified its invasion by claiming it was launched to stop a genocide of Russian speakers in Ukraine – claims that Kyiv argues is a breach of the 1948…
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Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Wednesday denied Iranian claims that its Oct. 7 attacks against Israel were in revenge for the killing of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in 2020. Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in January 2020. Ramadan Sharif, a spokesman for Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary…
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There is “no difference” between what Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu is doing in the months-long attacks on Gaza and what Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did decades ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. At a science awards ceremony in the capital Ankara, Erdogan said: “How do you (Netanyahu) differ from Hitler? These (actions)…
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Istanbul Bar Association on Thursday submitted a file of evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC) through a delegation of Turkish legal experts, including photos and videos from Anadolu, proving Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. The delegation, consisting of Turkish legal experts, including Cuneyt Yuksel, Chairman of the Justice Commission of the Turkish Grand National…
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The final resolution issued by the joint Arab and Islamic summit in Riyadh demands the end of what it describes as Israel’s aggression against Gaza, as well as “war crimes and barbaric, brutal and inhumane massacres.” “We condemn the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, the war crimes and the barbaric, brutal and inhumane massacres…
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A huge pro-Palestinian demonstration is underway in London as hundreds of thousands of people march through the center of the city Saturday, according to a CNN team on the ground. A spokesperson for London’s Metropolitan Police told CNN that an estimated 300,000 people attended the rally. There was heavy police presence in central London’s Hyde…
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The director general of MI5 has said his intelligence officers are “focused with particular intensity” on a growing risk of attacks in the UK after events in the Middle East. In a rare interview, Ken McCallum said: “Sadly, over the course of my career, it has often been the case that events in the Middle…
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A planned summit with Joe Biden and Egyptian and Palestinian leaders in Amman tomorrow has been called off. The US president is due to arrive in Tel Aviv tomorrow to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, and was then due to go on to the summit in Jordan to meet Arab leaders as…
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At least 500 people have been killed in a bombing of a hospital in Gaza City, the Palestinian Health Ministry has claimed. Palestinian officials have pointed the finger at Israel for the attack, but Jerusalem says the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group was responsible for the blast on the al Ahli al Arabi hospital –…
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The timing of the military offensive in Ukraine is determined by the intensity of hostilities and Russia will act according to its plan, President Vladimir Putin explained on Tuesday, during a joint press conference with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko. “I often get these questions, ‘can’t we hurry it up?’ We can. But it depends on…
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US President Joe Biden on Thursday signed into law legislation that bans imports from China’s Xinjiang region over concerns about forced labor, the White House said. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act is part of the US pushback against Beijing’s treatment of the China’s Uyghur Muslim minority, which Washington has labeled genocide. The bill passed…
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ighurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in China’s Xinjiang autonomous region face systematic and state-organised “mass internment and torture amounting to crimes against humanity”, Amnesty International said, citing dozens of eyewitness accounts from former detainees, as the group stepped up calls for the camps to be closed. In a report published on Thursday, Amnesty…
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More than 100 years after the crimes were committed, Germany formally confessed on Friday to having committed genocide as the colonial power in what is now Namibia. After years of negotiations, the German government recognized the atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama ethnic groups as genocide and said reparations would be paid. “As a…
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In a highly unusual move, the West African nation of The Gambia on Monday filed a lawsuit against Myanmar, accusing it of perpetrating a genocide on ethnic Rohingya Muslims which forced hundreds of thousands to flee the Asian nation. The Gambia, with the full support of the 57-member Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), filed the…
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A Myanmar government spokesman on Wednesday rejected a report by United Nations investigators that called for top generals to be prosecuted for genocide, saying the international community was making “false allegations”, Reuters noted. His comments came a day after the U.N report, which marked the first time the organisation has explicitly called for Myanmar officials…
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The international community on Monday supported the UN report, which called for an investigation and prosecution of Myanmar’s top military officials on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes against Rohingya Muslims. The report prepared by the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar stated that human rights violations and abuses committed in…
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