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“For by Wise Counsel, Thou Shalt Make Thy War.” Proverbs 24.6 For mostly good reason, policy discussions of Israel’s nuclear strategy and doctrine have been intentionally vague and without evident nuance. More specifically, there have been few open-literature assessments of a limited nuclear war and its law-supported capacity for enhancing Israel’s strategic deterrence. Now, however, [...]

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A gang attack in Haiti resulted in the deaths of at least 70 people in Pont-Sonde on Thursday, amid an alarming rise in gang violence in rural areas raising concerns about a lack of law and order in a country that is already grappling with profound humanitarian crises. The Gran Grif gang, responsible for this [...]

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The UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect unveiled a groundbreaking methodology aimed at monitoring social media platforms on Friday. The initiative, backed by the UK Permanent Mission to the United Nations, marks a strategic effort to address hate speech while respecting international human rights standards. Titled “A Comprehensive Methodology for Monitoring [...]

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Amnesty International on Friday raised concern about the ongoing coercion of Ukrainian teachers in Russian-occupied territories to teach the Russian-imposed curriculum to school-going children. The report portrays the resumption of schooling in the occupied territories as Russia’s attempt to justify its aggression by indoctrinating students with a propagandized curriculum. The Russian curriculum in the occupied [...]

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The Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) voted on Wednesday to formally recognize WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a political prisoner based on his time spent in UK custody while fighting extradition to the US on espionage charges. Assange has been free since June, when he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy for releasing troves of US classified documents [...]

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Amnesty International urged the self-proclaimed Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) on Thursday to reveal the whereabouts of former defense minister Al-Mahdi al-Barghathi and 18 of his relatives and supporters who were abducted in Benghazi a year ago. Al-Mahdi al-Barghathi, who became minister of defense in 2016, served in the post until 2018, and strongly condemned [...]

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US federal prosecutors on Wednesday released a redacted motion arguing that former president Donald Trump does not have immunity from prosecution for crimes related to the 2020 election because they were committed outside of official presidential conduct. This case is a remand of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States on July [...]

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Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report released Wednesday raised concerns over the forcible recruitment of children into a youth group associated with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). HRW interviewed multiple families whose children were taken by the Revolutionary Youth Movement of Syria, or Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger. The report revealed that in the vast majority [...]

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