The New York Times report exposing Israel’s attempt to assassinate Iran’s Foreign Minister @araghchi and lead negotiator @mb_ghalibaf is not a routine intelligence story. It is a direct threat to international peace and security under Article 39 of the UN Charter, which empowers the Security Council to determine such threats and decide on measures to address them. An operation designed to kill a senior diplomat and sabotage ongoing diplomatic processes constitutes precisely the kind of act the Council was created to prevent and suppress.
Western governments that routinely invoke international law have a specific legal duty to refer this matter to the Security Council and secure a binding Chapter VII resolution. Only a Chapter VII measure can authorize concrete enforcement actions - sanctions, travel bans, arms restrictions, or other mandatory steps - to deter Israel from repeating this violation.
Mere alerts to Iranian officials are legally and practically insufficient. These countries must now act through the Council to impose binding restraints on Israel, thereby upholding the prohibition on the use of force against another state’s diplomatic apparatus and preserving the diplomatic channels essential to international stability.
🇸🇩 NEW: Amnesty International has concluded that the UAE-backed RSF committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing in its campaign to seize El Fasher, in a major new report demanding all states halt arms transfers to the UAE, the RSF’s chief backer, until it complies with the UN embargo, alongside an immediate ceasefire and an international force to protect civilians in Sudan.
Based on interviews with 247 people, including 208 survivors, the report documents murder, extermination, rape, sexual slavery, torture, and persecution between early 2024 and October 2025, and finds children were deliberately targeted, killed, raped, abducted, and forcibly recruited on a massive scale.
Survivors of the October massacre described hundreds executed at the 57km berm ringing the city, with bodies thrown into the trench. One woman said alone she saw more than 1,000 dead.
Amnesty says its findings may be relevant to the crime of genocide, with that investigation ongoing. It identified RSF commanders responsible, including the infamous “Abu Lulu,” filmed executing captives.
Didier Drogba on Senegal crashing out of the 2026 FIFA World Cup after another controversial late penalty:
🗣️ “How many times does this have to happen before someone finally speaks the truth? Senegal didn't just lose a football match tonight... they watched another dream die because of a decision that will be debated for years.”
“This is becoming impossible to ignore. First the AFCON final, now the World Cup. Two of the biggest nights in Senegal's football history, and both end with the entire country asking the same question: 'Was that really football, or was the game taken away from us?'”
“I've played football all my life, and I know the difference between a genuine penalty and a decision that changes history. When millions of people are left confused by one whistle, football has a serious problem.”
“Look at those Senegal players. Some are on their knees, some are in tears, some can't even look at the fans. They fought with everything they had, came back from every challenge in this tournament, only to see their World Cup disappear in the cruelest way imaginable.”
“Don't tell me VAR is here to protect football when nights like this keep happening. If technology still leaves an entire nation feeling robbed, then what exactly is it protecting?”
“Belgium will celebrate, and they have every right to. But Senegal will leave carrying a scar that may never heal. Because deep down, every player, every coach and every supporter will spend the rest of their lives wondering if their World Cup was decided by football... or by a whistle.”
“This isn't just elimination. This is heartbreak for an entire nation. And the worst part? Nobody can give Senegal those moments, those dreams and those lost years back.”
🚨 Pep Guardiola on Belgium’s late penalty:
🗣️ Reporter:
“What did you make of the penalty?”
🗣️ Pep Guardiola:
“I always say football should be decided by football. Senegal had defended with incredible discipline for almost the entire match. To see such a soft contact become the defining moment is very difficult for everyone to understand.”
“If the contact is not absolutely clear, I don’t think you decide a World Cup knockout match with a penalty in the final moments. Let the players decide it themselves.”
“Senegal earned the right to keep fighting. Belgium earned the right to keep attacking. In games like this, I prefer the result to come from the quality of the football, not from one controversial decision.”
“When two teams have sacrificed so much, one whistle should never become bigger than everything that happened over ninety minutes.”
“Of course the referee has to make decisions, and I respect that. But these are the moments that leave people talking about officiating instead of the football. Nobody wants that.”
“If you cannot say with complete certainty that it is a penalty, then don’t give it. At this level, every decision carries enormous consequences.
🚨 Jose Mourinho on the penalty given to Belgium vs Senegal:
"I will always speak up for Africa. Because Africans are human beings, just like everyone else. And they deserve the same respect, the same decisions.”
"I just watched the footage of the penalty Belgium were given. And I’ll say it straight — that was not a penalty. Not on any day.”
"Tielemans played the referee. It was a mind game. He made it look like something it wasn’t, and the officials bought it.”
"Look at Ghana vs England. Ghana had a clear penalty. VAR didn’t even check it. Why? Is it because they’re African? Is that why the officiating is different against them at the World Cup?”
"Be honest… if you swapped the jerseys, if that was Senegal attacking and Belgium defending, VAR would not have even looked at it. Senegal would not have gotten that penalty.”
"That’s the problem. The double standard. And until that changes, African teams will keep getting punished for things others get away with.
Will we get an apology from all those pro-Israel people who screamed on this hellsite throughout 2024 ‘why won’t they just release the hostages?’ as an attempted justification for every Israeli war crime?
🚨 WTF?! Prominent journalist Mehdi Hasan reveals a UN report confirming a Zionist quadcopter sniper intentionally shot a 10-day-old baby in the head.
The infant was being breastfed.
The UN confirms the Israeli operator clearly saw the mother and baby. Pure evil!
JVP commends the American Academy of Religion (@AARWeb) for its “Resolution in Solidarity with Gaza” which passed at its recent Business Meeting. The resolution condemns the Israeli regime’s policies of genocide and scholasticide in Palestine, defined by the UN as the “intentional effort to comprehensively destroy the Palestinian education system.”
Just awful to see senior Labour politicians, whose government has helped arm Israel's genocide in Gaza, now expressing sympathy for the victims they played their part in creating.
This is gaslighting.
The man who recruited Keir Starmer to the Bar and became one of his earliest legal mentors
Has criticised Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper and Shabana Mahmood over the expansion of terrorism law
Arguing that protesters are being punished as "terrorists" for criminal damage despite terrorism never being charged, put to a jury, or proven
Any plans to to fix this @andyburnham ?
UN official Albanese described financial and insurance restrictions imposed on her following her public statement characterizing Israeli actions as genocide.
"I can't make payments with my working credit card nor can I do transfers; my health insurance has been canceled, I can't make hotel reservations."
Palestinians can't enjoy the World Cup, because when they gather together, Israel bombs them.
Then their murder will be sanitized with headlines like this⤵️ from the @NYTimes.
This is so dehumanizing and terrorizing.
An israeli terr*rist battalion named “Netzah Yehuda Battalion” has just posted this photo of a Palestinian they took hostage recently in Gaza.
Israel is burning civilian homes in Beit Yahoun and Ayta el-Jabal, South Lebanon.
Not military targets.
Civilian homes. Families’ homes. Entire neighborhoods.
This is what Israel calls a “peace agreement.”
Netanyahu may lose the coming election, but switching leaders will not end Israel’s pariah status if its policies remain unchanged. Repudiating Netanyahu’s callous indifference to Palestinian civilian life would require a new government to take a bold step such as surrendering him to face pending war crime charges in The Hague, much as Serbia did with Milosevic. https://t.co/nqgEMvuO67
ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan stated that Israel threatened his wife and children if he continued pursuing arrest warrants against its leaders accused of committing genocide.
In an interview with Al Arabiya English, Khan said that a 5,000-page report issued by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services cleared him of any wrongdoing. He added that the ICC Bureau, the court’s main oversight body, appointed three judges to review the report, and they confirmed on 21 March 2026 that there was no evidence indicating any misconduct.
He also said that he had not fully understood the extent of influence held by governments and states he described as aligned with the US and Israel, noting that 12 US senators contacted him and threatened his family if he continued pursuing action against Israel.
BREAKING:
Israel is dropping bombs on several villages in Nabatieh, South Lebanon right now.
There is no “ceasefire” when civilian homes are being obliterated in the middle of the night.