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A meeting was held Saturday between the Palestinian Prime Minister and the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding Italy’s commitment to providing an additional 35 million euro aid package to Palestine.  The aid package seeks to fund  ‘Food for Gaza’ and the  UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees). The aid [...]

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) told Reuters on Thursday that about 50 Rohingya Muslims arrived in North Sumatra, Indonesia on Wednesday via boat in refuge from violence and persecution in Myanmar. This is the latest wave of refugee arrivals in Indonesia amid hostility that refugees face from locals. According to the UNHCR, the [...]

International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan announced Monday that he applied for arrest warrants against Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, as well as senior Hamas leaders, for crimes against humanity committed during the Israel-Hamas War. The officials face various crimes against humanity and war crimes charges under the [...]

The chief of the UN’s Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Martin Griffiths warned on Sunday of “apocalyptic” consequences in Gaza if humanitarian aid is not increased, referring to fuel shortages and the threat of famine due to the blockage of humanitarian aid to the strip. In a statement to AFP news, Griffiths stated, “If fuel runs [...]

French President Emmanuel Macron declared a state of emergency in New Caledonia Friday for the violent protests breakout. The protests have resulted in almost 200 arrests, dozens of injuries and at least four deaths since Wednesday. Protestors have been setting businesses and cars on fire, and shooting rifles to cause widespread panic.  Reuters reports that [...]

The US Department of Justice unsealed conspiracy charges Thursday against individuals accused of assisting North Korean (DPRK) nationals in fraudulently posing as US residents to obtain information technology (IT) jobs with US companies, allegedly generating millions of dollars in income that was then funneled back to the DPRK. In a press release the government called [...]

The US House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would restrict President Joe Biden’s ability to withhold weapons transfers to Israel, aiming to force the president to deliver certain weapons after he previously placed shipments on hold. The bill, known as the Israel Security Assistance Support Act, was crafted “o provide for the [...]

Pitasanna Shanmugathas is a law student at Vermont Law & Graduate School and a graduate of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. On Saturday May 11 Pitasanna participated in Day 10 of the student-led encampment calling for the University of Toronto to divest from funding Israeli institutions allegedly involved in sustaining the [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk reminded world leaders on Sunday that a general assault by Israel in the Gazan city of Rafah “cannot be reconciled with the binding demands of international humanitarian law, or the binding provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).” Türk’s statement came just a day [...]

A protest in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir left one police officer dead and over 90 people injured on Saturday, local officials told Pakistani media. The region has been experiencing clashes since Thursday, as well as a major strike on Friday. Kashmir is a disputed region divided between India and Pakistan, and is known in Pakistan as “Azad [...]