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Colombia’s Constitutional Court upholds bullfighting ban and adds cockfighting prohibition
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld a 2024 law banning bullfights in the South American country, and it went further in protecting animal rights by adding a national prohibition of cockfighting. The bullfighting ban was approved by Colombia’s Congress in May 2024, after months of heated debates, and when President Gustavo…
Read MoreLarge-scale evacuation of Gazans from north Gaza, Gaza City to begin soon
Hamas distributed media messages to deter residents from moving south, in order to continue using them as human shields. The large-scale movement of the population from northern Gaza and Gaza City is expected to begin soon, according to officers in the Southern Command. Estimates suggest that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will move to shelter…
Read MoreHow many Palestinian detainees from Gaza does Israel think are fighters?
Israeli military intelligence believes that only a quarter of the Palestinian detainees from Gaza held by Israel are fighters, according to a joint investigation released on Thursday by the Israeli-Palestinian magazine +972, the Hebrew-language magazine Local Call, and the British newspaper The Guardian. Among those detained are thousands arrested under Israel’s 2002 Unlawful Combatants legislation, which…
Read MoreMali files ICJ case against Algeria over the destruction of a military reconnaissance drone
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Mali’s transitional government said Thursday it has filed a case against Algeria at the International Court of Justice, accusing its neighbor of “premeditated destruction” of a Malian military reconnaissance drone. Mali’s Ministry of Territorial Administration said in a statement that Algeria destroyed a Malian drone on the night of March 31…
Read MoreIsrael military controls 40% of Gaza City, says spokesman
The Israeli military has operational control of 40% of the area of Gaza City, according to army spokesman Effie Defrin on Thursday. “The operation will continue to expand and intensify in the coming days,” he said. “Hamas will face the IDF in full power in Gaza City. We will increase the pressure on Hamas until…
Read MoreIsrael cancels potential Macron visit over Palestinian recognition
Israel has cancelled a potential visit by France’s President Emmanuel Macron because Paris plans to recognize a Palestinian state, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said in a phone call with his French counterpart Jean-Noël Barrot on Thursday. His ministry said that Sa’ar urged Barrot to reconsider the initiative to recognize a Palestinian state, saying the…
Read MoreUK to accept Gazan asylum seeking students, wounded and ill children
Lammy and Cooper said that their government was also bringing Gazan children in need of medical care to receive treatment from UK National Health Service specialists. The United Kingdom will be accepting student asylum seekers as well as extracting wounded and ill children from Gaza, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Foreign Secretary David Lammy stated…
Read MoreFormer foreign minister sentenced to hard labour for corruption in Zambia
Joseph Malanji was foreign minister from 2018 to 2021 [Anadolu Agency via Getty Images] Zambia’s former Foreign Minister Joseph Malanji has been sentenced to four years in prison with hard labour after being convicted of corruption. Malanji was found guilty on seven counts of acquiring properties and helicopters suspected to be the proceeds of crime,…
Read MoreWärtsilä to supply cargo handling and fuel gas systems for five new VLECs
Wärtsilä Gas Solutions, a division of the Wärtsilä technology group, has been selected to provide the cargo handling and fuel gas supply system for five new Very Large Ethane Gas Carriers (VLECs). These vessels, commissioned by Japanese ship owner Mitsui O.S.K Lines, are being constructed at the Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) yard in Korea. The…
Read MoreMedvedev threatens UK with asset seizure over support for Ukraine
Russian former president Dmitry Medvedev is threatening the UK government with the expropriation of British state assets because of its support for Ukraine. London is supplying Ukraine with weapons worth more than £1 billion ($1.34 billion), paid for with proceeds from frozen Russian assets, Medvedev posted on his Telegram channel. “The British thieves have given…
Read MoreGazan school principal: Hamas are ‘murderers,’ I was happy to see hostages go home
Saad Al-Mashalal, whose son was killed by Hamas during one of its attacks on aid distribution sites in Khan Yunis, cursed the terror group for its violence in a video released by COGAT. A former school principal in Gaza slammed Hamas in a video posted by the head of the IDF Coordinator of Government Activities…
Read MoreEuropean court faults France over sexual consent rules
The European rights court on Thursday found France’s laws on sexual consent are insufficient, ruling against the authorities in a case involving a woman who accused her boss of coercing her into an abusive relationship. The plaintiff, an assistant pharmacist now in her 40s, worked on a temporary contract at a hospital in 2010, when…
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