UN’s top court rebukes Israel over Gaza aid restrictions during war
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The United Nations’ top court issued a legal opinion Wednesday stating that Israel, as an occupying power, is obligated to work with UN agencies to facilitate humanitarian aid in Gaza, a rebuke of the blockade it imposed on the Palestinian enclave earlier this year.
The International Court of Justice also said in its advisory opinion that the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the main UN body serving Palestinian refugees, has not violated impartiality.
Climate disasters in first half of 2025 costliest ever on record, research shows
LA wildfires and storms this year cost $101bn, new study by non-profit resurrecting work axed by Trump says
Wed 22 Oct 2025 15.00 BST
The first half of 2025 was the costliest on record for major disasters in the US, driven by huge wildfires in Los Angeles and storms that battered much of the rest of the country, according to a climate non-profit that has resurrected work axed by Donald Trump’s administration that tracked the biggest disasters.
In the first six months of this year, 14 separate weather-related disasters that each caused at least $1bn in damage hit the US, the Climate Central group has calculated. In total, these events cost $101bn in damages – lost homes, businesses, highways and other infrastructure – a toll higher than any other first half of a year since records on this began in 1980.
Germany: Far-right lawmakers accused of spying for Russia
Timothy Jones dpa, AFP
AfD lawmakers from the east German state of Thuringia have been accused of trying to gain sensitive data for Russia with parliamentary inquiries.
Politicians from Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the eastern state of Thuringia have been accused of filing parliamentary questions on sensitive issues as a way of spying for Russia.
The accusations come as a planned visit to Moscow by the AfD's deputy federal parliamentary party leader, Markus Frohnmaier, has raised eyebrows among members of other parties in the federal parliament, the Bundestag.
Ivory Coast: In Abidjan’s bustling neighbourhood of Abobo, ‘it’s Alassane or nothing’
In President Alassane Ouattara’s stronghold of Abobo, a working-class commune in Abidjan’s north, the incumbent’s supporters are convinced that he will win Saturday’s presidential election in a first-round “knockout blow”. FRANCE 24 spoke to some of the president’s most ardent fans about what three terms of Ouattara have done for the neighbourhood.
In Abobo commune, a long-standing stronghold of Ivory Coast’s incumbent President Alassane Ouattara, the last days of the presidential campaign look more like a party.
Convinced that their candidate will win outright in the first round of the presidential vote on Saturday, the assembled activists heap praise on the “new face” of their neighbourhood. The commune’s come a long way, they say, since the deadly post-election violence of 2011.
Indian MP ‘purifies’ Muslim prayer spot with cow dung and urine
Backlash after MP from Narendra Modi’s ruling party marches with Hindu activists to historic fort after Muslim women offered prayers
An Indian member of parliament is facing criticism for “purifying” a historical spot with dung and urine from a cow after Muslim women offered prayers there.
Medha Kulkarni, from prime minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), marched with some Hindu activists to the historical Shaiwarwada fort in Pune, Maharashtra after video of Muslim women visitors offering prayers at the site was shared widely on social media.
Firing Squads and Forced Death Leaps: A Tipping Point in Syria
Ten months after rebels toppled the long-entrenched Assad regime, little-checked bloodshed has led many Syrians to abandon hope that the years of brutality may be over.
Christina Goldbaum,Arijeta Lajka,Reham Mourshed and Sanjana Varghese
Christina Goldbaum and Reham Mourshed reported from Beirut and Damascus.
When rebels deposed the dictator Bashar al-Assad last year, many Syrians greeted their new rulers with a mix of worry and cautious optimism.
The new government, led by a former jihadist fighter named Ahmed al-Shara, made sweeping promises to protect Syria’s many religious minorities and finally bring peace after more than a decade of civil war.
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