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South Africa's highest court ruled on Monday that former president Jacob Zuma cannot stand as a candidate in next week's general election on the grounds that a 2021 conviction for contempt of court has disqualified him. The Constitutional Court ruled that Zuma's sentence of more than 12 months in prison had made him ineligible to stand. His former party, the ruling African National Congress (ANC), suspended Zuma, 82, in January. He has since founded a new party, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and intended to stand as chairman of the party in the May 29 elections. The Constitutional Court ruling revers...
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The climate activists who temporarily paralysed Munich Airport with a protest action on Saturday have been released following their temporary arrest. A police spokesman told dpa on Sunday that an investigating judge saw no reason to remand them in custody. The police detained eight activists on Saturday. The personal details of two others who did not enter the airport grounds were established and a connection with the protest action was investigated. The climate activists have been charged, the spokesman added. The police are assuming dangerous interference with air traffic. On Saturday, eight...
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The German climate ministry plans to review Thursday's court ruling that the government's climate policies are inadequate and will also assess whether to appeal the decision, a spokeswoman for the Climate Protection Ministry said on Friday. The Berlin/Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court ruled in favour of two lawsuits filed by Environmental Action Germany (Deutsche Umwelthilfe, DUH) and ordered the federal government to tighten its measures to combat climate change. The measures planned so far by the coalition government are insufficient to achieve Germany's climate targets by 2030, the co...
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The German climate ministry plans to review Thursday's court ruling that the government's climate policies are inadequate and will also assess whether to appeal the decision, a spokeswoman for the Climate Protection Ministry said on Friday. The Berlin/Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court ruled in favour of two lawsuits filed by Environmental Action Germany (Deutsche Umwelthilfe, DUH) and ordered the federal government to tighten its measures to combat climate change. The measures planned so far by the coalition government are insufficient to achieve Germany's climate targets by 2030, the co...
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Israel on Friday rejected accusations of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, while arguing before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that its military operations in the city of Rafah are self-defence. The case brought by South Africa was a "distortion of reality," the head of Israel's delegation, Gilad Noam, said in the courtroom in the Peace Palace in The Hague. South Africa was abusing international law in a "despicable and cynical manner," according to Noam. At the end of the hearing, one of Israel's legal representatives was interrupted as a woman shouted "Liar" before being led o...
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The German government must tighten up its climate protection programme because the measures agreed to so far are insufficient to achieve the country's climate goals, the Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court ruled on Thursday. The decision upholds two lawsuits filed by Environmental Action Germany or Deutsche Umwelthilfe. The ruling said the federal government's measures in their current form do not meet the legal requirements. The federal government can appeal to the Federal Administrative Court, thereby postponing the judgement. The group had already taken legal action against the G...
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South Africa has called for an immediate end to the Israeli military offensive in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip before the International Court of Justice. The justices must stop the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian population, said South Africa's legal representative, Professor Vaughan Lowe, at the highest court of the United Nations in The Hague on Thursday. "Israel's actions in Rafah are part of the endgame in which Gaza is utterly destroyed as an area capable of human habitation," he said. "This is the last step in the destruction of Gaza and its Palestinian people." The situ...
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After years of a legal dispute, the Brazilian inventor of the free-kick spray is to get compensation from football's governing body FIFA. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court in Brazil rejected an appeal from FIFA and ordered the association to pay Heine Allemagne and his company Spuni Comércio de Produtos Esportivos compensation for the misuse of his invention. Allemagne invented the spray in 2000, which referees can use to mark the position of the free-kick wall and then quickly dissolves again. The spray has been used by the South American football association Conmebol since 2009 and was used for ...
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday scheduled further hearings in the genocide proceedings against Israel for its military operations against militants from the Palestinian organization Hamas in Rafah. The highest court of the United Nations will on Thursday and Friday deal with the urgent application by South Africa, it announced in The Hague. South Africa is demanding Israel's immediate withdrawal from Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip to prevent genocide against Palestinians. The attacks threaten "severe and irreparable harm" to the population in Gaza and extreme peril to...
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The brother of Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has been arrested as part of a corruption investigation. Nicanor Boluarte is accused of influence peddling and forming a criminal organization, judicial authorities announced on Friday. A total of eight suspects were arrested, including President Boluarte's lawyer. Just days ago, the government had disbanded a special police unit that was supporting prosecutors in their investigations into the president's inner circle. Nicanor Boluarte is said to have provided close allies with state appointments. In return, investigators believe they provided mo...
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