COMMENT | JAMES A. GOLDSTON | As the tragic consequences of US President Donald Trump’s war of choice against Iran continue to accumulate, one hears a cry of desperation: Are we witnessing the “death of international law?” It is a reasonable question. But there is a more important one: Can we …
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The Straight of Hormuz is subject to sovereign laws of Iran and Oman but under international law, it is also an international waterway COMMENT | NATALIE KLEIN | The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow body of water adjacent to Iran and Oman, which connects the Persian Gulf to the …
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BEIJING, CHINA | Xinhua | The U.S. military incursion into Venezuela and the action against its President, Nicolas Maduro, as announced by the U.S. administration, once again lays bare Washington’s reliance on unilateral force to shape outcomes beyond its borders. This aggression also hollows out decades of U.S. rhetoric positioning …
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The UK, long famed for exporting its values of liberty, is about to cross the Rubicon with the Rwanda Bill COMMENT | GORDON BROWN | Last month, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made an astonishing admission: the United Kingdom would have all but abandoned the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) …
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