ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged Gaza war crimes
Warrants for Israeli PM and former defence minister put them at risk of detention if they go to some other countries
Thu 21 Nov 2024 16.20 GMT
ICC issues arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu for alleged Gaza war crimes
Warrants for Israeli PM and former defence minister put them at risk of detention if they go to some other countries
The international criminal court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the country’s former defence minister Yoav Gallant and the Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif for alleged war crimes relating to the Gaza war.
It is the first time that leaders of a democracy and western-aligned state have been charged by the court, in the most momentous decision of its 22-year history.
Netanyahu and Gallant are at risk of arrest if they travel to any of the 124 countries that signed the Rome statute establishing the court. Israel claims to have killed Deif in an airstrike in July, but the court’s pre-trial chamber said it would “continue to gather information” to confirm his death.
4 tourists die from methanol tainted alcohol in Laos
Several backpackers have fallen ill in a suspected methanol poisoning incident in Vang Vieng, Laos. One young Australian woman was on "life support" in a Thai hospital, her father said.
Four foreign tourists have died of suspected methanol poisoning in Laos, officials said on Thursday.
Among the dead were an Australian woman, two Danish citizens and a US citizen.
What do we know about the suspected methanol poisoning case?
A group of around a dozen tourists fell ill after a night out on November 12 in the town of Vang Vieng, some 130 kilometers (81 miles) north of the capital, Vientiane.
At UN climate talks, developing countries blast lack of detail on funding for energy transition
The draft text for the UN climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan, left out how much wealthy nations will pay poorer countries to help them to reduce greenhouse gasses and cope with climate change. The developing world says it needs the $1.3 trillion in climate finance, far more than negotiators say richer nations have been prepared to give
Countries of the world took turns rejecting a new but vague draft text released early Thursday which attempts to form the spine of any deal reached at United Nations climate talks on money for developing countries to transition to clean energy and adapt to climate change.
The draft left out a crucial sticking point: how much wealthy nations will pay poor countries. A key option for the lowest amount donors are willing to pay was just a placeholder “X.” Part of that is because rich nations have yet to make an offer in negotiations.
Kishida bombing suspect insulted in manipulative interrogation
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
November 21, 2024 at 16:37 JST
Details have emerged from a prosecutor’s harsh interrogation of the suspect in the bombing attack against former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, including derogatory insults and possible violations of his right to remain silent.
The Wakayama District Public Prosecutors Office issued a warning to the prosecutor after the Supreme Public Prosecutors Office concluded that the interrogation of the suspect, Ryuji Kimura, was improper.
Kimura, 25, was indicted in September 2023 on five charges, including attempted murder, in connection with a homemade bomb thrown at Kishida while he was delivering a campaign speech in Wakayama.
‘It’s impossible to breathe’: Life in the world’s most polluted city
Inside Delhi’s first ever clinic dedicated to pollution-related illnesses, Deepak Rajak struggles to catch his breath.
The 64-year-old’s asthma has worsened in recent days, and his daughter rushed him to the clinic, anxious about his rapidly deteriorating health.
Sitting in the waiting room, Rajak tells CNN he has become “very breathless” and cannot stop coughing.
First close-up image of a star outside Milky Way shows supergiant in ‘cocoon’
Astrophysicists say material may suggest star is dying and ejection of matter signals coming supernova
Thu 21 Nov 2024 14.45 GMT
A star cloaked in an egg-shaped cocoon has been revealed in the first detailed images of a star beyond the Milky Way.
Until now, stars in other galaxies have been visible as little more than points of light, even when observed using telescopes. Now, thanks to the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI), astronomers have captured the first zoomed-in image.
“We discovered an egg-shaped cocoon closely surrounding the star,” said Dr Keiichi Ohnaka, an astrophysicist at the Andrés Bello National University in Chile. “We are excited because this may be related to the drastic ejection of material from the dying star before a supernova explosion.”
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