“I’m breaking, just like Gaza is now breaking.” Because of Israel’s blockade of essential aid, our reporters in Gaza are having a hard time finding food. When he leaves the camera, Hani Mahmoud shows us what life is like in Gaza.
Duterte was freed of the charges, but the outcome may still have a significant impact on her political ambitions, the court said on Friday.
When Duterte was in charge of education under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s control, she was accused of misconduct and misuse of millions of dollars in government funds.
In February, Duterte was impeached by the Philippines’ lower house of Congress, who also accused her of threatening to kill Marcos, the First Lady, and the Speaker of the House.
Due to the limited number of Philippine presidents who can run for office, Duterte is widely regarded as a strong contender for the presidency in 2028.
Duterte would have been permanently barred from office if he had been found guilty in an impeachment trial. She claimed that Marcos’ decision to remove her from office was motivated by a bitter conflict.
Rodrigo Duterte, a notorious former president, is the daughter of Duterte, who is currently being held by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands.
Rodrigo Duterte, president from 2016 to 2022, was detained at the Manila airport just hours after being detained for allegedly committing “crimes against humanity” as a result of a drug trafficking crackdown that resulted in the deaths of thousands of people during his presidency. He has denied any wrongdoing.
In response to concerns that the three European countries might re-engage with Iranian diplomats in nuclear negotiations, according to warnings made by the three countries’ previous 2015 agreements.
The meeting, which is taking place in Turkiye’s Istanbul on Friday morning, is the first since Israel launched an intense 12-day conflict in which the United States militarily intervened on behalf of Israel and attacked important Iranian nuclear sites, starting in mid-June.
Top commanders, nuclear scientists, and hundreds of civilians were killed as a result of Israel’s offensive, which also affected residential areas and caused the US-Iran nuclear talks to end in April.
Iran claimed on Friday that the meeting will give the so-called E3 group from Germany, the UK, and France the chance to change their positions on Iran’s nuclear issue. According to Esmaeil Baghaei, a spokesperson for the foreign ministry, Iran considers the discussion of extending UN Security Council Resolution 2231 to be both “meaningless and baseless.”
The resolution is scheduled to expire in October, ratifying the 2015 agreement Iran and the world powers reached in exchange for urgent sanctions relief. It guarantees the right of the big powers to rescind UN sanctions.
The “snapback mechanism,” which would reinstate the sanctions against Iran by the end of August, was reportedly threatened by the E3 since then as a result of the moribund 2015 nuclear agreement that US President Donald Trump unilaterally tore up in his first term.
Tehran has warned of the consequences if the E3 chooses to activate the snapback, and the option expires in October.
This week, senior Iranian diplomat Majid Takht-Ravanchi and Iranian deputy foreign minister Kazem Gharibabadi warned that enacting sanctions “is completely illegal.”
After the US withdrew from the deal, he also accused the European countries of “halting their commitments.”
Gharibabadi stated, “We have warned them of the risks, but we are still looking for common ground to manage the situation.”
Iranian diplomats have previously warned that Tehran might withdraw from the world’s nuclear non-proliferation treaty if UN sanctions are reinstated.
Iran’s already constrained economy would be put under more pressure if sanctions were to be reinstated, which would increase its standing abroad.
Gideon Saar, the foreign minister of Israel, has urged the world to activate the mechanism. Two days before Tehran and Washington were scheduled to meet for a sixth round of nuclear negotiations, Israel launched an attack on Iran on June 13.
Fordow, Isfahan, and Natanz were among the US nuclear facilities that were struck on June 22.
Prior to the conflict, Washington and Tehran had differences regarding uranium enrichment, which Iran has called a “non-negotiable” right for civilian purposes, while the US called it a “red line.”
Iran enriches uranium to a 60% purity, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), far above the 3.67 percent cap set forth in the 2015 agreement’s requirement for weapons-grade levels.
Tehran has stated that it is not interested in negotiating uranium enrichment rates and levels.
Iran reportedly began reversing its commitments a year after the US pulled out of the nuclear deal, which had put restrictions on its nuclear activities in exchange for sanctions relief.
Iran is accused of pursuing nuclear weapons by Israel and Western powers, a charge Tehran has consistently refuted. In the run-up to the June conflict, both US intelligence and the IAEA claimed to have seen no indication of Iran’s intention to develop nuclear weapons.
Iran insists it will continue to maintain its nuclear program, which Abbas Araghchi, the country’s foreign minister, dubbed “national pride.”
The US bombing’s full scope of damage is still a mystery. Trump has claimed that the sites have been “completely destroyed,” but US media reports have cast doubt on how much of the destruction has been done.
According to Araghchi, enrichment is currently “stopped” due to “serious and severe” harm to nuclear sites brought on by US and Israeli attacks.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated in an interview with Al Jazeera on Wednesday that Iran was ready for another war and that it would continue to use its nuclear arsenal in accordance with international law. He added that the nation had no intention of pursuing nuclear weapons.
Iran has stopped cooperating with the IAEA because of the 12-day conflict, accusing it of being biased and not to condemn the attacks.
Inspectors have since left the nation, but a technical team is expected to return in the coming weeks, as per Iran’s promise that future cooperation will take “new form.”
As Thailand and Cambodia fight head-on, desperate evacuees have reported being surrounded by thunderous artillery bombardments.
More than 100, 000 people were forced to leave their homes across four Thai border provinces on Friday as a result of the worst fighting in more than a decade between the neighboring nations.
Thousands of people from northeastern Surin province renounced their homes for makeshift shelters built in the town center on Thursday as a result of artillery fire.
Nearly 3, 000 people packed onto rows of plastic mats covered in colorful blankets and hastily gathered things in Surindra Rajabhat University’s sports hall.
Thidarat Homhuan, 37, told the AFP news agency, “I’m concerned about our home, our animals, and the crops we’ve worked so hard on.”
She eluded nine members of her family, including her grandmother, who had just come out of a hospital, who was 87.
“That concern persists,” he said. However, because we are now further away from the danger zone, being here makes it feel safer. We’re at least safe, she said.
When she first heard what she described as “something like machinegun fire,” followed by heavy artillery thuds, Thidarat was babysitting at a nearby school.
“There was chaos,” he said. The children feared for their lives. She said, “I rushed to the bunker at the school.”
Evacuees slept next to each other in the shelter beneath the gym’s high ceiling, surrounded by loud electric fans and hushed rumors.
Children played quietly in the shade of blankets, while infants slept in cradles, and the elderly were lying in blankets. In mesh crates close to the public restroom, pet cats sat nearby.
According to Chai Samoraphum, the president’s office director, this is the first full year the university has been operating as a shelter.
The campus quickly changed into a functioning evacuation center after classes were immediately canceled.
Six locations on the campus were used to distribute evacuees from four border districts.
The majority of them departed quickly. Some people have chronic illnesses but didn’t bring their medications, while others only managed to grab a few things, Chai told AFP.
Chai explained that the center offers mental health services to trauma victims and care for those who have chronic illnesses with the provincial hospital’s assistance.
According to reports from Thailand’s officials, at least 14 people have been killed in border fighting, including one soldier and two civilians who were killed in a rocket attack close to a petrol station in Sisaket province. It is confirmed that there was also a Cambodian fatality.
Evacuees are unsure of their ability to return home as fighting continues near the border.
The shelter offers safety and a place to wait for confirmations that it’s safe to “go back to normal life,” according to Thidarat.
She already wants the government to take swift action, saying, “Do not wait until lives are lost.
She said, “We rely on the government very much for protection, and we look up to it.”
Key figures in the US protest movement, according to the US protest group Code Pink, are accused of participating in Israel’s starvation campaign in Gaza. Former President Joe Biden and Senator Lindsey Graham have previously been targeted for their support of Israel’s war.
Due to the sheer scale of the evidence in accusations against him by Syrian activists and European prosecutors, France’s highest court will decide whether to revoke Bashar al-Assad’s exile from Russia’s highest court.
If al-Assad’s immunity is overturned on Friday, al-Assad could face an absentee trial for using chemical weapons in Ghouta and Douma in 2018.
Human rights activists and attorneys claim that it could set a precedent for the prosecution of other government officials linked to atrocities.
Al-Assad has denied being responsible for the chemical attacks and has no attorneys to answer these questions.
Since al-Assad’s forces were the only side in the nearly 14-year civil war with sarin, the opposition has long refuted al-Assad’s claim.
According to Mazen Darwish, president of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression, which collected evidence for war crimes, a ruling against al-Assad would be a “huge victory for the victims,” according to The Associated Press news agency.
This will open the door for victims from any nation, and it will be the first time a domestic investigative judge has the authority to issue an arrest warrant for a president while he is in power.
He claimed that the decision would allow his organization to pursue allegations of money laundering against former Syrian Central Bank governor and minister of economy Adib Mayaleh, whose attorneys claimed he had immunity under international law.
Hafez al-Assad and his son Bashar served as ruler of Syria for more than 50 years.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reports that more than half a million people died in a brutal civil war that started against their rule in 2011 across the 23-million-strong nation. More than a billion people have fled Europe, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkiye, and elsewhere.
Despite promises that Syria’s new leaders will carve out a political future for the country that includes and represents all of its communities, the al-Assad dynasty also stoked sectarian tensions to stay in power.
The decision of the French judges could provide the legal framework to prosecute not just deposed and exiled leaders but those who are currently in power, given that the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for leaders accused of atrocities. These include Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu in Gaza, and Vladimir Putin in Russia.
The Syrian government initially denied involvement in the Ghouta attack in 2013, but the United States later threatened military retaliation before agreeing to a deal with Moscow, allowing Russia to wrest significant influence in the war-torn nation.