Call for International Court of Justice to offer legal opinion on climate crisis follows campaign led by island Vanuatu.

Call for International Court of Justice to offer legal opinion on climate crisis follows campaign led by island Vanuatu.
Pacific island state Vanuatu – one of the world’s most vulnerable to climate change – has led the UN initiative.
Questions remain over explosions in September that damaged gas pipelines connecting Russia and Germany.
Fact-finding mission says state security forces and armed militia groups have committed a wide array of crimes.
Two Category 4 cyclones hit Vanuatu within 72 hours in early March.
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Opposition leader Kem Sokha, 69, was sentenced to 27 years on charges of treason and is currently under house arrest.
After a $125m donation shortfall, monthly food vouchers were cut from $12 to $10 per person, said World Food Programme.
The South American country hopes to bring the question of the islands’ disputed sovereignty before the United Nations.