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U.S. Imposes Sanctions on U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
ByFrancesca Regalado July 10, 2025July 10, 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur, for calling for international investigations of Americans and Israelis over the war in the enclave.

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Wildfires Scar Syria Anew
ByEuan Ward July 9, 2025

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the size of Washington, D.C.

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Wildfires Scar Syria Anew
ByEuan Ward July 9, 2025July 9, 2025

The country is experiencing its worst drought in decades, which has set the conditions for the blazes to scorch an area the size of Washington, D.C.

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Governments like mine have a duty to stand up to Israel. Far too many have failed | Gustavo Petro
ByGustavo Petro July 8, 2025

Without decisive action, we risk stripping the global legal order of its remaining protections for less-privileged nationsGustavo Petro is the president of ColombiaOver the past 600 days, the world has watched Benjamin Netanyahu lead a campaign of deva…

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Governments like mine have a duty to stand up to Israel. Far too many have failed | Gustavo Petro
ByGustavo Petro July 8, 2025

Without decisive action, we risk stripping the global legal order of its remaining protections for less-privileged nationsGustavo Petro is the president of ColombiaOver the past 600 days, the world has watched Benjamin Netanyahu lead a campaign of deva…

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Iran Carries Out Mass Expulsion of Afghan Refugees
ByNick Cumming-Bruce July 7, 2025July 8, 2025

About 800,000 people have been deported to Afghanistan, a desperately poor country, under an Iranian campaign that accelerated sharply in June.

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Global firms ‘profiting from genocide’ in Gaza, says UN rapporteur
ByJulian Borger in Amman July 3, 2025

Report by Francesca Albanese singles out companies such as Palantir and calls for prosecutionsThe UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories has called for sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel and for global corpor…

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Global firms ‘profiting from genocide’ in Gaza, says UN rapporteur
ByJulian Borger in Amman July 3, 2025

Report by Francesca Albanese singles out companies such as Palantir and calls for prosecutionsThe UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories has called for sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel and for global corpor…

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What We Know About the Fate of Iran’s Nuclear Program
ByThe New York Times June 26, 2025

President Trump’s claimed Iran’s capabilities were “obliterated.” The full extent of the damage is still emerging.

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Are we witnessing the death of international law?
ByLinda Kinstler June 26, 2025

A growing number of scholars and lawyers are losing faith in the current system. Others say the law is not to blame, but the states that are supposed to uphold itIn late April, terrorists killed 26 civilians in the Indian town of Pahalgam, located in t…

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