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A Bid to Undo a Colonial-Era Wrong Touches a People’s Old Wounds

An Oxford museum’s collection of objects taken from the Naga people includes human remains. What to do with them now is not a simple matter.

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Members of a Naga delegation visited the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, England, in June.
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In a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Gaza Genocide

Israel says it is fighting against Hamas, not Palestinians as a group. But two of Israel’s best-known rights groups — long critical of Israeli policy — now say they disagree.

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Palestinians mourning the dead after an airstrike in Gaza City in June.
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Does the World Court’s Sweeping Climate Opinion Matter? Five Takeaways.

While the court doesn’t have enforcement mechanisms, it has a prominent voice, and its legal arguments could reverberate.

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Judge Yuji Iwasawa, president of the International Court of Justice, read out the court’s climate opinion on Wednesday in The Hague.
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Top U.N. Court Says Countries Must Act on Climate Change

The International Court of Justice called global warming an “urgent and existential threat” at a closely watched case in The Hague.

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Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu’s climate change minister, in The Hague on Wednesday.
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A Kite Surfer, Navy SEAL and Makeup Artist: Freed in a U.S.-Venezuela Swap

Over 260 people were released from prisons in El Salvador and Venezuela. Now they face the challenge of coming home.

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Venezuelan migrants who were jailed in El Salvador arrived at Simon Bolivar International Airport, outside Venezuela’s capital, Caracas, on Friday.
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Trump Order on International Criminal Court Likely Violates First Amendment, Judge Rules

The ruling’s scope is limited to two American activists, but it represents a striking, if tentative, blow to the president’s efforts to penalize and isolate the world’s highest criminal court.

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President Trump has accused the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, of targeting the United States and Israel.
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Prominent Human Rights Group Flees El Salvador

The group, Cristosal, has investigated prison deaths and torture under President Nayib Bukele. Its employees were threatened and surveilled, its director said.

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Ruth López, the anti-corruption director of Cristosal, leaving a courthouse in June, following her May arrest.
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Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant Countries

Eight men sent by the United States to South Sudan could presage a new approach to Trump-era deportations, even as critics say the practice could amount to “enforced disappearance.”

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Downtown Juba, South Sudan, last year. Third-country deportations could accelerate under new internal guidance issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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