What is genocide?

• U.S. Declares Genocide in Sudan. Critics Say Biden Acted Too Late.

  Tens of thousands of people have been killed in months of fighting that has led to a famine.
  
  The Wall Street Journal - Jan. 9
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  U.S. says Sudan's rebels have committed genocide and sanctions their leaders

  The US determined Tuesday that members of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed genocide in Sudan and it imposed sanctions on the group’s leader.
  
  NBC News - Jan. 8
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  U.S. Says Sudan’s R.S.F. Committed Genocide and Sanctions Its Leader

  A force fighting Sudan’s army in a brutal civil war committed massacres and rape that amount to genocide, the Secretary of State said, two decades after a finding of genocide in the same region.
  
  The New York Times - Jan. 7
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  Ireland Joins South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel

  Ireland had said it would intervene in the case at the International Court of Justice, arguing that Israel’s actions in Gaza amounted to collective punishment.
  
  The New York Times - Jan. 7

• U.S. accuses one side in Sudan's vicious civil war of genocide

  The U.S. government has determined that Sudan's RSF paramilitary force and its allies have committed genocide in the country's raging civil war.
  
  CBS News - Jan. 7
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  US determines Sudan paramilitary committed genocide, sanctions leader

  The Biden administration on Tuesday sanctioned the top general of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and determined the paramilitary group has committed genocide in the country, as well as crimes ...
  
  The Hill - Jan. 7

• US accuses Sudan paramilitary force of genocide

  Biden administration places sanctions on leader of Rapid Support Forces
  
  Financial Times - Jan. 7
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  Ireland joins South Africa's ICJ genocide case against Israel

  Ireland filed a declaration of intervention Monday in support of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The decision comes after Ireland’s November ...
  
  The Hill - Jan. 7

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  The Saudi media reported that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had spoken with President Trump, who made the kingdom the first stop on his first overseas presidential trip in 2017.
  
  The New York Times - 6m
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  Southport killer Axel Rudakubana jailed for minimum of 52 years for murder of three girls at a dance class in 2024 – live

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  The Guardian - 7m
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  The Guardian - 8m

• The Deep-Sea Battle Over the World's Data Cables Is Heating Up

  A Russian spy ship seen in U.K. waters points to continuing worries over the safety of undersea cables that link the global economy.
  
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• Trump Tells Davos: Make Your Product in America---or Pay Tariffs

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