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Darfur villages torched in echo of earlier genocide, report says
A man walks in the market of the Adre refugee camp, on April 10, 2024. Chad is home to the largest number of Sudanese refugees, nearly a million. In a year since the conflict in Sudan started between two rival factions of the military government, more than 571,000 have rushed there on foot or by mule, adding to more than 400,000 compatriots who fled the previous Darfur war since 2003. (Photo by Joris Bolomey / AFP) (Photo by JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Kagame blames the world’s inaction as Rwanda commemorates the 1994 genocide
Rwandan President Paul Kagame, left, and his wife, first lady Jeannette Kagame lead other dignitaries as they arrive for a ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, held at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, in Kigali, Rwanda, Sunday, April 7, 2024. Rwandans are commemorating 30 years since the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists, shattering this small east African country that continues to grapple with the horrific legacy of the massacres. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
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Toronto police make arrests during weekend pro-Palestinian protest, draw criticism from demonstrators
Protestors for Gaza gather outside a downtown hotel in Toronto the planned location of an event for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Friday, March 15, 2024.  Pro-Palestinian groups are alleging Toronto officers are selectively policing at their organized protests after three males were arrested then released and three others were charged during a demonstration on Saturday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
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Comparing people to vermin or excrement could prompt hate-speech probe under online harms bill, officials say
Canada's competition watchdog is raising concerns about discontinued cellphone promotions in Western Canada in the wake of the Rogers-Shaw merger that it says had been helpful in bolstering competition. A person uses a cell phone in Ottawa on Monday, July 18, 2022.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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U.S. Air Force member has died after setting himself on fire outside Israeli embassy in Washington
In this image taken from video, police are deployed outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, after an active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force was critically injured after setting himself ablaze outside the diplomatic compound. (WJLA via AP)
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U.S. Air Force member in critical condition after setting himself on fire outside Israeli embassy in Washington
Palestinians wait for humanitarian aid on a beachfront in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Essa)
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Namibia’s president and anti-apartheid activist Hage Geingob dies in hospital
(FILES) Namibian President Hage Geingob arrives at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, South Africa, for the inauguration of Incumbent South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on May 25, 2019. Namibia's President Hage Geingob died early on February 4, 2024 in a hospital in Windhoek, the presidential office said in a statement on social media platform X. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP) (Photo by MICHELE SPATARI/AFP via Getty Images)
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World court says it has jurisdiction in part of Ukraine’s genocide case against Russia
A view of the Peace Palace housing the International Court of Justice, the United Nations top court which is ruling in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, in a case in which Ukraine accuses Russia of bankrolling rebels in 2014 and discriminating against Crimea's multiethnic community since its annexation of the region. It is the first of two decisions by the International Court of Justice linked to the decade-long conflict between Russia and Ukraine that exploded into a full-blown war nearly two years ago. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Canada watching for UN court decision on Israel and genocide, Trudeau says
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to members of the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal, in Montreal, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
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Trudeau says government does not support premise of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
Prime Minster Justin Trudeau speaks at a fundraising event in Vancouver on Thursday, December 14, 2023. Trudeau says Canada does not support the premise of South Africa's case at the United Nations' top court that accuses Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
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Canada has a moral obligation to support South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
Avi Lewis
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Liberal MPs at odds over genocide case against Israel as Ottawa prepares to declare official position
A Palestinian medic reacts after several members of the Palestinian Red Crescent were killed when an Israeli strike hit an ambulance, according to the Red Crescent, in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip January 10, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Al-Masri
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Legal battle set to open at top UN court over allegation of Israeli genocide in Gaza
FILE - Presiding judge Joan Donoghue, second right, opens the World Court session where Ukraine's legal battle against Russia over allegations of genocide used by Moscow to justify its 2022 invasion, resumed in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. South Africa has launched a case at the United Nations' top court alleging that Israel's military campaign in Gaza amounts to genocide. The filing and Israel's decision to defend itself at the International Court of Justice sets up a high-stakes showdown in the before a bench of the court's black-robed judges in the wood-panelled Great Hall of Justice. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
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Evening Update: No year on record was hotter than 2023, and global temperatures are set to exceed key threshold
(FILES) This photograph taken on July 19, 2023, shows a pharmacy's sign indicating the current outside temperature is 40 degrees celsius, with the dome of Saint Peter Basilica in the background, in Rome amid a heatwave in Italy. The year of 2023 was the hottest on record, with the increase in Earth's surface temperature nearly crossing the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius, EU climate monitors said on January 9, 2023. Climate change intensified heatwaves, droughts and wildfires across the planet, and pushed the global thermometer 1.48 C above the preindustrial benchmark, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)
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The genocide case against Israel is an abuse of the postwar legal order
Rosalie Abella
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EU condemns Darfur violence and warns of ‘another genocide’
FILE PHOTO: Chadian cart owners transport belongings of Sudanese people who fled the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, while crossing the border between Sudan and Chad in Adre, Chad August 4, 2023. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo
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Palestinian human rights groups ask war crimes court to probe Israel over genocide allegations
People walk past destroyed buildings in the aftermath of an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 10, 2023, during ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. (Photo by Mohammed ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)
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Palestinian doctor from Gaza receives honorary degree from Toronto Metropolitan University
Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Palestinian-Canadian physician and internationally recognized human rights and peace activist gives remarks after receiving an honorary doctorate at Toronto Metropolitan University’s fall convocation in Toronto, on Thursday Oct. 12, 2023. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
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Russia using genocide ‘lie’ as pretext to destroy, Ukraine tells World Court
Ukraine's agent Anton Korynevych, ambassador-at-large of the Ukraine Foreign Ministry, addresses the judges at the World Court, as the Russian delegation, right, listens to Ukraine's legal battle against Russia over allegations of genocide used by Moscow to justify its 2022 invasion, which resumed in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. Russia seeks to have a groundbreaking case tossed out at the International Court of Justice, also known as the Word Court, in a case which will see Ukraine supported by a record 32 other nations in a major show of support for the embattled nation.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Russia calls on International Court of Justice to throw out Ukraine genocide case
Ukraine's agent and ambassador-at-large of the Ukrainian Ministry of the Foreign Affairs Anton Korynevych, second left, and Oksana Zolotaryova, Director General for International Law of the Ukraine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, left, wait for judges to enter the World Court where Ukraine's legal battle against Russia over allegations of genocide used by Moscow to justify its 2022 invasion, resumed in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. Russia seeks to have a groundbreaking case tossed out at the International Court of Justice, also known as the Word Court, in a case which will see Ukraine supported by a record 32 other nations in a major show of support for the embattled nation.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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World Court to hear Russian objections to Ukraine genocide case
FILE PHOTO: A general view of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands August 22, 2023. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo
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Breaking the silence about the 1971 Bangladesh genocide
Abdullah Al Imran
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A year after Russia’s crimes in Bucha came to light, Ukraine marches toward justice for its civilians
Residents of Bucha qttend commemoration ceremony devoted to the Annyvessary of the liberation of Bucha from Russian occupation. Bucha, Ukraine #1 Mar 2023
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ICC expected to launch war crimes cases against Russians over Ukraine invasion, source says
FILE- In this Nov. 7, 2019 file photo, the International Criminal Court, or ICC, is seen in The Hague, Netherlands. President Donald Trump has lobbed a broadside attack against the International Criminal Court. He's authorizing economic sanctions and travel restrictions against court workers directly involved in investigating American troops and intelligence officials for possible war crimes in Afghanistan without U.S. consent. The executive order Trump signed on Thursday marks his administration’s latest attack against international organizations, treaties and agreements that do not hew to its policies. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
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Canada, Netherlands to intervene in Ukraine genocide case against Russia at international court
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In Texas, members of LGBTQ community arm themselves to fight right-wing extremists
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Recognize genocide in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, experts urge Canadian committee
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Conference partly funded by National Defence includes speaker who denied China committed genocide
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Motion to call residential schools genocide backed unanimously
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Surge of dehumanizing hate speech points to mounting risk of mass atrocities in northern Ethiopia, experts say
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Sajjan likens Russian missile strikes on Ukraine cities to Holodomor famine
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Long-awaited Rwanda genocide trial starts despite suspect’s boycott
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U.N. investigator says Facebook provided vast amount of Myanmar war crimes information