Reacting to the acting Venezuelan government’s decision to withdraw from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), as confirmed on 6 August, Ana Piquer, Amnesty International’s Americas Director, said: “The Venezuelan government’s regretful decision to withdraw from the Rome Statute is the last step in a long string of efforts to avoid scrutiny and accountability for some of the most serious crimes under international law. "The Venezuelan government’s regret

With hundreds of new start-ups, Israel’s growing defense-tech scene is heavily concentrated in central Israel. People hold a giant Israeli national flag at the Western Wall in Jerusalem Old City, on the eve of Jerusalem Day, May 14, 2026. (photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90) Jerusalem has established a new accelerator to broaden the capital’s footprint in Israel's defense-tech ecosystem. The program will help local companies. The accelerator is led by the Jerusalem Developm

The fighting has raised fears that a three-year-old peace deal could unravel, leading to another brutal war. The charred remains of a T-72 tank on a road that connects Shiraro to Shire on October 12, 2024. The two-year war in Ethiopia's Tigray region left hundreds of thousands people dead, more than one million still displaced and cost more than $20 billion in damage, until a peace deal in November 2022 ended the bloodshed [Michele Spatari/AFP] In northern Ethiopia, hundreds

Migrant children in Ceuta suffer loss, hunger in hope of a safer life in mainland Europe. Spanish police and soldiers in Ceuta escort migrants to the border to return to Morocco, August 1, 2026 [Fabian Bimmer/Reuters] Hundreds of unaccompanied minors are stranded in Ceuta in North Africa, following the massive surge of migrants who swam around the border fence with Morocco to reach the Spanish territory. Some of the children are traumatised after witnessing family members dro

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand shake hands following talks at the G7 foreign ministers meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont., in November 2025. (Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP) Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand recently said, on the eve of International Justice Day, that Canada will continue to support the International Criminal Court (ICC). Anand’s comments came in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed writte

Exclusive: Tribunal accepts three siblings could face ‘persecution’ for refusing military conscription due to their political opinion on warExclusive: Tribunal accepts three siblings could face ‘persecution’ for refusing military conscription due to their political opinion on war The three siblings have a ‘well-founded fear of persecution’ if forced to return to Israel, the Administrative Review Tribunal of Australia found. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP Three Israeli citizens

Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza is causing a surge in premature births and endangering mothers’ health. The Premature Infants Clinic at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza [Eman Abu Zayed/Al Jazeera] Noor Salem, 30, stands beside an incubator at a neonatal intensive care unit in central Gaza, where her baby, Yazan Al-Khalidi, lies attached to tubes and monitors. She watches his tiny body behind a sheet of quartz glass, tracking his meagre breathing and the

Seventeenth session of the International Criminal Court's Assembly of States Parties in The Hague, Netherlands, December 2018. © 2018 Syd Boyd/Coalition for the International Criminal Court (New York) – The Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court (ICC), during a special session on July 24, 2026, decided to remove the court’s prosecutor, Karim Khan, from office for serious misconduct and serious breach of duty. The following quote can be attributed to Li

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will soon issue a judgment in the case brought by the Gambia against Myanmar involving serious allegations of genocide committed against the Rohingya group. This article revisits a technical issue that the ICJ may wish to clarify in its final judgment. Genocide involves the commission of an underlying act both with the general intent to commit the underlying act itself and with the specific intent to thereby contribute to the destructi

Years after being split up and reunited, a family gets caught in Trump’s immigration dragnet.