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Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani built Qatar as the Gulf's permanent neutral ground. He died Sunday. Iran struck Al Udeid Air Base the same morning. Six countries said they were not in this war. All six received Iranian missiles. The bridge he built is now a target.
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Raphael Lemkin coined genocide in 1944, got it into law in 1948, and died with seven people at his funeral in 1959. The ICJ's 15-2 order in South Africa v Israel proves he built something precise enough to apply — and a world too compromised to apply it. He built it anyway.
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Raphael Lemkin coined genocide in 1944, got it into law in 1948, and died with seven people at his funeral in 1959. The ICJ's 15-2 order in South Africa v Israel proves he built something precise enough to apply — and a world too compromised to apply it. He built it anyway.
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Modi has received 33 foreign honours. The Knesset created a medal for his arrival while the ICC had active warrants for Netanyahu. Seychelles created an award three days before he landed with an AI-generated misspelled certificate. The awards are domestic. The cost is international.
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Three ICC judges sued Trump in Manhattan. Two Indian jurists documented genocide across two courts. The US helped draft the Rome Statute. It declared the court it helped build a national emergency.
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Trump set a June deadline for Ukraine. Then launched the Iran war. Abu Dhabi talks cancelled. Deadline passed. Putin waited. He is more confident of winning than he was in January. The Iran war's legacy may not be in the Middle East.
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