The Ionian

Iona University Mock Trial Team Commands the Courtroom at Quinnipiac

Adrian Vazquez, News Editor
January 28, 2025

This past weekend, the Iona University Mock Trial Team suited up and competed in the 9th Annual Bobcat Invitational. Every year, mock trial teams across the nation receive a new case from the American Mock Trial Association (A.M.T.A.). To celebrate the 40th anniversary of A.M.T.A., this year’s case exclusively used witnesses from previous cases in a setting that evoked Agathe Christie’s classic detective fiction novel, “Murder on the Orient Express” – with a twist. Instead of an expected...

Palestinians return to ruins in northern Gaza after 15 months of blockade

Adrian Vazquez, News Editor
January 28, 2025

Following 15 months of war, Israel has allowed tens of thousands of Palestinians to begin returning to northern Gaza after Israel and Hamas completed the first phases of an Egyptian and Qatari-negotiated truce. The United Nations said over 200,000 people were moving north on the morning of April 27. 90% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced, with an estimated 47,000 Palestinian civilians killed and 1,200 Israelis killed. President Trump has called for Jordan and Egypt to receive more...

Colombia’s president decrees emergency powers in conflict with rebels

Adrian Vazquez, News Editor
January 28, 2025

Colombia’s president issued a decree giving him emergency powers in a region bordering Venezuela to suppress rising conflict among feuding rebel groups. President Gustavo Petro’s decree allows him to impose curfews, restrict traffic, and take other measures outside the constitution for 90 days in the rural Catatumbo region near the Venezuelan border. In Catatumbo, 80 people have been killed and...

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