(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel has rejected the accusations brought by South Africa to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that its actions in Gaza amount to genocide, in a second day of a public hearing at the world body in The Hague.
Israel’s legal representatives on Friday claimed South Africa’s case was “unfounded”, “absurd”, amounting to “libel”, and said Israel sought not to destroy a people but to protect its people.
On Thursday, the first day of hearings,...
(BBC News) US and UK forces have carried out air strikes against Houthi rebel targets in Yemen.
President Joe Biden said the strikes are in response to attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis on ships in the Red Sea since November.
The Houthi deputy foreign minister warned that the US and UK will "pay a heavy price" for this "blatant aggression."
Royal Air Force warplanes helped carry out the "targeted strikes" against military facilities, said UK Prime Minister Rishi...
(BBC News) Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has challenged armed gangs to take on the military rather than civilians as soldiers were deployed to combat the criminal groups.
Noboa declared a state of emergency on Monday after a wave of gang violence swept through the Andean country.
In the most dramatic incident, armed men stormed a TV station and threatened the staff during a live broadcast.
More than 300 suspects have been arrested under the state of emergency.
Noboa...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Israel faces accusations that it is subjecting Palestinians in Gaza to genocidal acts, as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) commenced a hearing on South Africa’s genocide case against it on Thursday.
Amid the ongoing three-month war in Gaza, more than 23,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed, lawyers told the top United Nations court. Most of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million has been displaced, and an Israeli blockade severely limiting food,...
(BBC News) A group of armed men have broken into a live television studio in Ecuador and threatened staff, footage shows.
A live broadcast by station TC in the city of Guayaquil was interrupted on Tuesday by the group, who were wearing hoods and carrying guns.
Staff were forced to on to the floor, before the live feed cut out.
A 60-day state of emergency began in Ecuador on Monday after a convicted gang leader vanished from...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Space may be infinite, but the Earth’s orbit is not. Since 2019, the number of satellites circling the planet has more than doubled. Companies like Elon Musk’s Starlink, OneWeb, Amazon’s Project Kuiper, and even entities as large as the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) have launched thousands of satellites in hopes of gaining an upper hand in the lucrative market of orbital space around the Earth.
The commercial...
(BBC News) The Lebanese group Hezbollah says one of its commanders has been killed in a strike in southern Lebanon believed to have been carried out by Israel.
Wissam Tawil was reportedly a member of the group's elite Radwan Force, and one of the most prominent Hezbollah figures to be killed in the current violence.
Israel's military did not comment, but it did say it had hit Hezbollah targets in response to cross-border attacks.
The clashes have...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) North Korea has threatened an immediate military strike against South Korea in response to any “provocation”.
Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister and key ally of leader Kim Jong Un, made the threat on Sunday, as Pyongyang reportedly fired artillery shells near its border with South Korea for the third day in a row.
The remarks follow South Korean military reports that said the North had fired more than 60 artillery rounds...
(BBC News) The US Supreme Court says it will hear a historic case to determine whether Donald Trump can run for president.
The justices agreed to take up Trump's appeal against a decision by Colorado to remove him from the 2024 ballot in that state.
The case will be heard in February, and the ruling will apply nationwide.
Lawsuits in a number of states are seeking to disqualify Trump, arguing that he engaged in insurrection during the...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) India’s solar observation mission has entered the sun’s orbit after a four-month journey, the latest success for the space exploration ambitions of the world’s most populous nation.
The Indian Space Research Organization’s Aditya-L1 mission was launched in September and is carrying an array of instruments to measure and observe the Sun’s outermost layers.
“India creates yet another landmark,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a post on X on Saturday. “It is a...
