Media Coverage

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran early on July 31, an attack that drew threats of revenge on Israel and fueled further concern that the conflict in Gaza was turning into a wider Middle East war. The Palestinian militant group and Iran's Revolutionary Guards...

Israel carried out a rare strike on Beirut on July 31, which it said killed a top Hezbollah commander who was allegedly behind a weekend rocket attack that killed 12 young people in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. The strike in the Lebanese capital killed at least one woman and two children...

Britain’s new government said on July 26 it was dropping its predecessor’s query of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) jurisdiction to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The ICC’s chief prosecutor has requested warrants for Netanyahu and his defense minister...

The Organization of American States' (OAS) election observation department said on July 30 it cannot recognize the results by Venezuela's national electoral council declaring President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the recent disputed vote. The 35-member regional body, which is to meet about...

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has said it is ready to participate after the United States invited the warring sides in Sudan to mediated ceasefire talks. RSF leader Mohammed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo said July 24 that the paramilitary group will participate. The U.S. invited the RSF and...

Haitian women and girls are facing an “alarming” level of violence, including threats of rape, in makeshift displacement camps that have sprung up as a result of a surge of gang violence in the Caribbean nation, the United Nations says. In a report released on July 17, UN Women said the camps lack...

Peru's Congress passed a law on July 4 introducing a statute of limitations for crimes against humanity, despite opposition from human rights organizations who argue the measure will hamper ongoing investigations into serious abuses. The law passed with 15 votes in favor and 12 against in the...

Asubpeeschoseewagong Netum Anishinabek First Nation (also known as Grassy Narrows), located in Ontario, Canada, highlighted on July 11 the severe impact of mercury contamination on their community before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in the first virtual public hearing in the...

Keir Starmer has pledged to repeal the controversial Legacy Act, which offered immunity to Troubles-era crimes in Northern Ireland, and discussed replacement legislation with the Irish prime minister during a wide-ranging discussion on July 17. In December the Irish government began a legal...

The top United Nations court said on July 19 that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and called on it to end, and for settlement construction to stop immediately, issuing an unprecedented, sweeping condemnation of Israel’s rule over the lands it captured 57 years...