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The International Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that countries are legally obligated to take action against climate change, including addressing fossil fuel production, in a historic advisory opinion that could reshape global climate policy.

In its long-awaited opinion, the United Nations’ highest court affirmed that states must take measures to prevent environmental harm, protect current and future generations from worsening climate impacts, and…

Two Palestinian teenage boys have been killed by Israeli forces in the town of al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency, in the latest deadly violence in the territory continuing in tandem with Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

The bodies of 15-year-old Ahmad Ali Asaad Ashira al-Salah and 17-year-old Muhammad Khaled Alian Issa, who were killed at dawn, were withheld by the Israeli army, the report said, adding that two more children were also…

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Two Palestinian children were shot dead by Israeli forces early Thursday morning in the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

The Ministry of Health confirmed that 15-year-old Ahmad Ali Asaad Ashira al-Salah and 17-year-old Mohammad Khaled Aliyan Issa, were killed after Israeli troops opened gunfire on a group of children near the al-Abara area, adjacent to the colonial bypass road Route 60.

Israeli…

We compare and contrast how Donald Trump stayed silent when Brazil’s leftist leader Lula da Silva was jailed in 2018, but has been loudly condemning the current prosecution of his far-right ally, former president Jair Bolsonaro, as a “witch hunt”.

Deadly clashes erupted along the Thai-Cambodian border, killing at least 11 civilians and one soldier, all on the Thailand side, as a diplomatic crisis deepens between the Southeast Asian neighbours.

Violence intensified on Thursday when both nations exchanged gunfire, with accusations of who initiated the fighting. Diplomatic ties have severely deteriorated since Wednesday, leading Thailand to seal all land border crossings with Cambodia.

The situation has been worsening since a May…

Gaza (Quds News Network)- Millions of tonnes of rubble left by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza could generate more than 90,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, a new study has found, adding it takes as long as four decades to remove and process.

The study, published in the journal Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability and reported by the Guardian, said Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes, schools and hospitals in Gaza generated at least 39m tonnes of…