(Al Jazeera Media Network) Hearings started at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Monday in a landmark case in which 52 countries are jointly presenting evidence about the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories.
The case stems from a request from the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on December 30, 2022. A majority of UNGA members voted to seek the court’s opinion on the legal consequences of the continuing Israeli occupation of...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Iran has accused Israel of being behind two attacks last week on gas pipelines that disrupted supplies in several provinces, further raising tensions between the regional archenemies amid the war on Gaza.
“The explosion of the country’s gas lines was the work of Israel,” Oil Minister Javad Owji said on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting.
“The plot was foiled,” he said.
Two explosions hit Iran’s leading south-north gas pipeline network on February 14. They were...
(BBC News) The most luminous object ever detected has been spied in the distant Universe.
It is a quasar – the bright core of a galaxy that is powered by a gargantuan black hole some 17 billion times the mass of our Sun.
Known as J0529-4351, the object's power was confirmed in observations by the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
Scientists, reporting in the journal Nature Astronomy, say the black hole has a voracious appetite, consuming the mass...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) London’s High Court has scheduled two days of hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday to decide whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may appeal a United States request for extradition to stand trial on espionage charges.
Those charges carry maximum penalties of 175 years, but the real danger, says Assange’s wife Stella, is that he may suffer an inadvertent death penalty instead.
“His health is in decline, physically and mentally,” Stella Assange recently told reporters....
(Al Jazeera Media Network) For researchers of China, keeping up with the country’s politics or economy is hard enough due to its opaque leadership and pervasive censorship.
Now they face a challenge from an unexpected source: Google.
Late last year, Google began quietly removing links to cached pages from its search results, a function that had allowed Internet users to view old versions of web pages.
Danny Sullivan, Google’s public liaison for search, confirmed earlier this month that...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) The United States has said it will block another resolution that will soon be presented at the United Nations urging a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza.
Algeria has proposed a new resolution be put to a vote on Tuesday at the UN Security Council (UNSC) that seeks an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian group that governs Gaza, while demanding an “immediate and unconditional release of all hostages.”
“Should it...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) A senior bureaucrat in Pakistan has said he helped rig Pakistan’s elections, a week after polls marred by allegations of manipulation returned no clear winner.
On Saturday, Liaqat Ali Chattha, commissioner of the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where the country’s powerful military has its headquarters, said he would hand himself over to police and step down from his position.
“We converted the losers into winners, reversing margins of 70,000 votes in...
(BBC News) Five decades on from the last of the Apollo missions, the Moon is once again a target for space exploration. But NASA no longer has lunar exploration to itself.
The number of astronauts who walked on the Moon hasn't changed in over 50 years.
Only 12 human beings have had this privilege – all Americans – but that will soon increase. The historical two-nation competition between the US and Soviet space agencies for lunar exploration...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has died, state media reported, citing the prison service of the region where he had been serving a 19-year sentence on charges of extremism.
There was no immediate confirmation of the 47-year-old’s death from his team on Friday.
Navalny spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said his lawyer was travelling to the remote prison colony north of the Arctic Circle, but later expressed that there was “almost no hope” that...
(BBC News) Russia is developing a "troubling" new anti-satellite weapon, the US has said, but it emphasized that Moscow has yet to deploy it.
White House spokesperson John Kirby made the comments a day after a senior House Republican issued vague warnings of a "serious national security threat."
The weapon is space-based and armed with a nuclear weapon to target satellites, CBS News reported.
But Kirby did not confirm this and refused to offer precise details on...
