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Meritless or a decisive victory?

The International Court of Justice sits. PHOTO: REUTERS

Israel's defence minister, Yoav Gallant, dismissed the ruling by the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip with the words "Hague schmague".

Sending a message, via missile

Iranian missiles exhibited in a Teheran park. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

Not all that long ago, attacking another country’s territory was still seen as a big deal.

Israel v the ICJ: a waste of time?

The International Court of Justice hears South Africa’s case against Israel. PHOTO: REUTERS

The two sides have had their day in court — one day each, actually.

Foreign support for Sahel ending

German army Bundeswehr soldiers return from peacekeeping in Mali in mid-December. PHOTO: REUTERS

Last Sunday, the last of 12,000 United Nations peacekeeping troops left Mali, ordered out by the military regime that seized power after two successive coups in 2020 and 2021.

Spring thaw could be scorching

El Nino is the warm phase of the El Nino-La Nina Southern Oscillation (ENSO) that occurs across the tropical Pacific Ocean roughly every five years. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

Last year was probably the hottest in the past 10,000 years — but everybody agrees that this year will be even hotter.

A tale of bombing in two wars

Buildings lie in ruin in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from southern Israel. PHOTO: REUTERS

Today (or yesterday, or tomorrow), the known death toll of Palestinians since October 7 will reach 20,000.

Viva the almost perfectly useless COP

United Arab Emirates Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 president Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber addresses the plenary session at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in Dubai. PHOTO: REUTERS

The key debate on the last day of the COP28 climate summit was about whether or not the conference should endorse a resolution to phase out fossil fuels — or, less ambitiously, phase them "down" (but not out).

War of pointless killing not ‘just’

Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip. PHOTO: ISRAEL DEFENCE FORCES VIA REUTERS

"If you [Americans] were OK with us killing 5000 children, you are OK with killing 10,000 children," Daniel Levy said, a former Israeli diplomat who helped negotiate the Oslo peace accords in the 1990s.

100-year struggle began with Balfour Declaration

One hundred years ago this week, in the midst of World War 1, the British government sent a letter known as the Balfour Declaration that led, three decades later, to the creation of the state of Israel.

Unfinished nuclear business

Today's Hiroshima does not give television journalists a lot to work with. It is a raucous, bustling, mid-sized Japanese city with only few reminders of its destruction by atomic bomb in 1945.

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