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Israel faces the prospect of intervention by international courts amid growing calls that its actions in Gaza are a violation of world humanitarian and criminal law. The UN general assembly, which is meeting this week to discuss the issue, will consider requesting an advisory opinion from the international court of justice, the Guardian has learned. "There is a well-grounded view that both the initial attacks on Gaza and the tactics being used by Israel are serious violations of the UN charter, the Geneva conventions, international law and international humanitarian law," said Richard Falk, the UN's special rapporteur on the Palestinian...

My wife and I are South Park fans and we watch a good bit of Comedy Central in general. Recently Comedy Central began airing a show called “Drawn Together” after South Park. We’ve watched it a couple of times and it’s pretty raunchy – lesbian and queer sex images/jokes, a cartoon pig that gets erections and urinates on furniture, a lot of sex jokes … pretty raunchy and not really the kind of show I have an interest in. The premise is that it’s a reality “Big Brother” type show except it’s cartoon characters. But I’ve seen pieces of it...