Spotlight turns on possible complicity of UN workers in Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7
Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy accused UNRWA of announcing the news while the world’s attention was focused on the World Court ordering Israel to prevent acts of genocide against Palestinians and do more to help civilians in Gaza.
Gaza war: UN top court vague on core issue of whether Israeli military offensive is genocide
The UN world court on Friday came down hard on Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, calling on Israel to “take all measures” to prevent a genocide of the Palestinians. But it stopped short of demanding an immediate ceasefire as the South African sponsors of the case had...
Napoli president confirms Nigerian striker Osimhen set to leave, denies link to Mourinho
Osimhen, who moved to Napoli in 2020 for a club-record €70 million ($76 million) potentially rising to €80 million with add-ons, was a pivotal player last season as the club won their first league title in 33 years and finished as Serie A top scorer with 26 goals.
GOP primaries frontrunner Donald Trump still in a rut as Supreme Court is urged to rule him ineligible to run
Lawyers called for a decision that makes clear that what happened on January 6 was an insurrection, for which Trump bears responsibility. The president is covered by the constitutional provision at issue and Congress doesn’t need to take action before states can apply it, the lawyers wrote.
Not groggy: Diageo’s Kenyan unit calls Tusker beer sale report ‘market speculation’
In an interview with Reuters EABL CEO Jane Karuku denied the brand would be sold
Donald Trump ordered to pay journalist Carroll $83.3 million for rape, reputational hurt
Carroll’s case has become an issue in Trump’s campaign to retake the White House in the November US election. Trump is the frontrunner for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden, who beat him in 2020.
Trump walks out on opponent’s closing at defamation trial in a huff, returns to hear his lawyer
Early in her closing, Habba showed the jury a video in which Trump said a jury’s verdict last year finding that he had sexually abused Carroll was “a disgrace” and “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time.”
No reciprocal arrangement: High Court declines plan to deploy Kenyan police to Haiti gangland
The United Nations said this week that it had documented 4,789 people killed by gang violence in Haiti last year, an increase of 119 per cent from 2022, and that another 3,000 were kidnapped.
World Court concurs with South Africa Israeli military attacks in Gaza are genocidal
Israel had sought to have the case thrown out when it was brought to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) earlier this month. South Africa accused Israel of state-led genocide in its offensive, begun after Hamas militants stormed into Israel killing 1,200 and kidnapping more than 240.
Grumbling aside in US, China and Russia critics agree South Africa’s genocide case is a diplomatic win
Grumble they might, but they can scarcely afford to alienate Africa’s industrial and diplomatic heavyweight – especially with the United States’ main superpower rival, China, wooing the continent with money, railways and tech transfers.
