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ICJ begins hearing on South Africa’s allegation that Israel commits genocide
Fp Staff •Israel’s offensive has killed more than 23,200 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. About two-thirds of the dead are women and children, health officials say. The death toll does not distinguish between combatants and civilians.
Azerbaijan to UN court: Armenia must stop sowing land mines
•The claim came in hearings at the court’s headquarters in The Hague in a pair of cases brought by Armenia and Azerbaijan alleging breaches of a convention preventing racial discrimination
UN court rejects Myanmar's claims, will hear Rohingya genocide case
Fp Staff •Amid international outrage at the treatment of the Rohingya Muslims, Gambia filed a case with the world court alleging that Myanmar is breaching the genocide convention
Supreme Court stays proceedings of WB's Lokur panel probing Pegasus snooping allegations
•A bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Surya Kant and Hima Kohli took note of the plea that despite the assurance of the West Bengal government that the Lokur panel would not proceed with the inquiry, the commission has commenced its work.
US court junks Nirav Modi's plea seeking dismissal of fraud allegations against him
•The allegations were made by Richard Levin, the court appointed trustee of three US corporations indirectly owned by Nirav Modi previously
ICJ to resume hearing in Kulbhushan Jadhav case today; India had challenged death sentence by Pakistan court in 2017
•The oral proceedings in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case will commence from 18 February before the International Court of Justice at The Hague, the Ministry of External Affairs said Thursday.
'The Butcher of Bosnia' Ratko Mladic sentenced to life for war crimes, genocide; UN terms verdict 'momentous victory for justice'
Fp Staff •Maldiac was facing verdicts on 11 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for allegedly masterminding atrocities by Serb forces during Bosnia's 1992-95 war.
Karadzic, 'many-faced' Serb accused of Bosnian war horrors to face trial at The Hague
Fp Archives •Psychiatrist, poet, president, alleged war criminal — even New Age healer. Radovan Karadzic has certainly had a varied life.