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Top UN court stops short of ordering cease-fire in Gaza and demands Israel contain deaths
By Mike Corder, The Associated Press on January 26th, 2024
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – The United Nations’ top court stopped short Friday of ordering a cease-fire in Gaza in a genocide case but demanded that Israel try to contain death and damage in its military offensive in the tiny coastal enclave. South Africa brought the case, which goes to the core of one of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Top UN court says it won’t throw out genocide case against Israel as it issues a preliminary ruling
By Mike Corder, The Associated Press on January 26th, 2024
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – The United Nations’ top court is set to rule Friday on a call for Israel to halt its military offensive in Gaza, when it issues a preliminary decision in a case accusing Israel of committing genocide in the tiny coastal enclave. Joan E. Donoghue, president of the International Court of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!The top UN court opens session in a case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza
By Mike Corder, The Associated Press on January 26th, 2024
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – The United Nations’ top court opened a session Friday in a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. The president of the International Court of Justice will read out a preliminary ruling in the case. That could take about an hour. South Africa has asked ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pre-trial detention for American reporter accused of spying in Russia extended through March
By The Associated Press on January 26th, 2024
MOSCOW (AP) – A court in Moscow extended the pre-trial detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, until the end of March, Russian news agencies reported Friday. United States Consul General Stuart Wilson attended the hearing, which took place behind closed doors because authorities say details of the criminal case ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!An American reporter jailed in Russia loses his appeal, meaning he’ll stay in jail through March
By The Associated Press on January 26th, 2024
MOSCOW (AP) – Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained on espionage charges, lost an appeal Friday against his arrest, Russian state news agencies reported. That means he will stay in jail until the end of March. A 32-year-old United States citizen, Gershkovich was arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg while on ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alabama executes a man with nitrogen gas, the first time the new method has been used
By Kim Chandler, The Associated Press on January 25th, 2024
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) – Alabama executed a convicted murderer with nitrogen gas Thursday, putting him to death with a first-of-its-kind method that once again put the U.S. at the forefront of the debate over capital punishment. The state said the method would be humane, but critics called it cruel and experimental. Officials said Kenneth Eugene ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!US Supreme Court rules Alabama can proceed with the country’s first execution by nitrogen gas
By Kim Chandler, The Associated Press on January 25th, 2024
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Alabama can proceed with using nitrogen gas to put a man to death, refusing to block what would be the nation’s first execution by a new method since 1982. Alabama plans put a face mask on 58-year-old Kenneth Eugene Smith and replace the air ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Donald Trump testifies in his defense in E. Jean Carroll defamation suit — for less than 3 minutes
By Jake Offenhartz, Jennifer Peltz, And Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press on January 25th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Former President Donald Trump was on and off the witness stand at a jury trial Thursday in less than 3 minutes but not before breaking a judge’s rules on what he could say by claiming that a writer’s sexual assault allegations were a “false accusation” and he wanted to defend himself ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Turkey formally ratifies Sweden’s NATO membership, leaving Hungary as only ally yet to endorse it
By The Associated Press on January 25th, 2024
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey published a measure approving Sweden’s membership in NATO in an official gazette on Thursday, finalizing the ratification that brings the previously nonaligned country a step closer to joining the military alliance. Hungary now remains the only NATO ally not to have ratified Sweden’s accession. Turkey’s parliament endorsed Sweden’s accession in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Donald Trump testifies in his defense in E. Jean Carroll defamation suit
By Jake Offenhartz, Jennifer Peltz, And Larry Neumeister, The Associated Press on January 25th, 2024
NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump began testifying Thursday in a New York defamation trial to determine how much he might owe the advice columnist E. Jean Carroll for disparaging her as a liar after she publicly accused him of a decades-old rape in 2019. “I just wanted to defend myself,” he said in testimony ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Trump White House official Peter Navarro gets a 4-month sentence for defying a House Jan. 6 subpoena
By Lindsay Whitehurst And Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press on January 25th, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) – Trump White House official Peter Navarro, who was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced on Thursday to four months behind bars. He was the second Trump aide convicted of contempt of Congress charges, ... Read More »
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