ICJ says 'famine is setting in' as it orders Israel to free up aid in Gaza
The ruling orders Israel to allow aid trucks loaded with food and supplies to enter Gaza unhindered "without delay."
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The ruling orders Israel to allow aid trucks loaded with food and supplies to enter Gaza unhindered "without delay."
The International Court of Justice heard testimony on the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of Palestinian territories.
The summit is focused on Europe's uncertain security, clouded by Russia's threat and America's political turmoil.
The ruling is the first of two that are expected this week from a decade of conflict-turned-war between Russia and Ukraine.
Justices at The Hague granted South Africa's request for provisional measures against the Israeli military in Gaza.
Though it cannot enforce its orders, the court issues advisory opinions that carry legal weight and moral authority.
Guyana, an impoverished former British colony, controls the Essequibo region and the US$1 billion a year it generates.
The election adds only the sixth female judge and denies Russia a seat for the first time in the court's 77-year history.
As climate litigation increases, the body of legal precedent grows, forming an increasingly well-defined field of law.
The European Court of Human Rights heard two climate cases brought by citizens against Swiss and French authorities complaining they must do more to reduce carbon emissions.
Prodded by Vanuatu and other nations, the U.N. General Assembly will ask the ICJ based in The Hague for an unprecedented legal opinion on nations' legal obligations to fight global warming – and the consequences if they don't.
The ICJ ordered Russia to halt its invasion of Ukraine in a legally binding decision that is mainly symbolic because there is no direct means of enforcing it.
The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog agency and Iranian top officials announced Tehran will give international inspectors reduced access to nuclear sites.
ICJ ruled it has jurisdiction to hear Iran's case challenging the U.S. economic sanctions reimposed by the former Trump administration in 2018.
ICJ ruled it has jurisdiction to settle a border dispute going back to colonial-era claims over a resources-rich jungle region between Guyana and Venezuela.
Four judges from China, Japan, Slovakia and Uganda were re-elected to the International Court of Justice, while a German candidate won the fifth open slot.