related to the death of Argentinian football player Diego Maradona has resigned, leaving the case’s future uncertain.
On May 4, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, reported that two helicopter gunships had bombed its medical facility in Old Fangak the day before and fired at the town, killing seven and injuring 20 others. Deliberate attacks on a medical facility performing its humanitarian function violate international humanitarian law and would constitute a war crime. This is yet another indication of why the UNSC must renew the arms embargo and strengthen its enforcement.If properly implemented and enforced, a renewed UNSC arms embargo would not obstruct security sector reform. Instead, it would block the disorderly and destabilising accumulation of arms in South Sudan, which is spurring the current conflict and contributing to violations against civilians.
If the AU is serious about silencing the guns, it should back the strict controls prohibiting arms transfers to South Sudan, and the African states in the UNSC should vote to renew the arms embargo.The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.A US federal court has blocked some of Donald Trump’s tariffs after a lawsuit argued the president had exceeded his authority.
A United States trade court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s global reciprocal tariffs are, finding that the president overstepped his authority by imposing the import levies last month. Wednesday’s ruling could throw Trump’s sweeping trade policies into disarray, experts say.
The Court of International Trade in New York ruled that an emergency law invoked by Trump during his
announcement in April does not give him unilateral authority to impose certain tariffs. Instead, the court ruled, that power resides with Congress.Kennedy said on video in July 2023
at a fundraiser for his aborted 2024 presidential run. Not only is there no evidence of a conspiracy to infect certain white and Black folk with COVID. There is no evidence to suggest that any particular group is immune to the disease. Kennedy’s racism apparently is also anti-Jewish in nature.Earlier this month, Kennedy announced that he had
authorised Medicaid and Medicare to share private datawith the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in building a national database of autistic recipients “to uncover the root causes of autism” – which he considers a “preventable disease” – by September. Above and beyond his other statements, this decision