Belgium joins South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at ICJ
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/23/belgium-joins-south-africas-genocide-case-against-israel-at-icj?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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What happened in Abu Ghraib and why did a US court award damages?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/14/what-happened-in-abu-ghraib-and-why-did-a-us-court-award-damages?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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The poet Lee Seong-bok explores the gap between words and meaning in this sequence of aphorisms, translated by Anton Hur:

https://www.fictionable.world/blogs/lee-seong-bok-poetry-words-meaning-language

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World’s largest coral discovered in Pacific near Solomon Islands
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/14/worlds-largest-coral-discovered-in-pacific-near-solomon-islands?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Spain faces new flood threat: Thousands of people evacuated in Málaga as country braces for new storms.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/11/13/spain-floods-thousands-of-people-evacuated-in-malaga-as-country-braces-for-new-storms

My long percolating review of Bound to Violence by Yambo Ouologuem is finally out! #PenguinClassic

https://africainwords.com/2024/10/25/review-bound-to-be-re-read-bound-to-violence-a-penguin-modern-classic-for-2024/

Maggie is looking for a partner in Esther Karin Mngodo's story First Date, translated by Jay Boss Rubin. But will her love life ignite?

Catch it at https://www.fictionable.world/stories/first-date-esther-karin-mngodo-translated-by-jay-boss-rubin/

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