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Far-right leader José Antonio Kast was sworn in as Chile’s president Wednesday in the Latin American nation’s most pronounced rightward shift since the return of democracy in 1990. In his first speech as president, Kast said Chile has real adversaries, including “those who have sown terror in...

A new report has expressed alarm at what it describes as backsliding press freedoms across the Americas, with the United States seeing the steepest decline. The Inter American Press Association released its latest press freedom index on Tuesday, ranking last year as the lowest point for freedom of...

Moscow's deportation and forcible transfer of children from Ukraine to Russia amounts to a crime against humanity, a United Nations team of investigators said Tuesday, March 10. The UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said it had collected evidence leading it to conclude...

Israeli forces have launched air strikes across Lebanon as Israel targets the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah during the Israeli-United States war on Iran. Two Israeli air attacks on Tuesday hit Lebanon’s southern city of Tyre, known as Sour in Arabic. This came shortly after the Israeli army...

Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip have been “denied the conditions needed to live and to give life safely” by Israel amid its genocidal war on the enclave, according to Amnesty International, a global rights group. Amnesty warned on Tuesday that women and girls in Gaza have been pushed “to the...

Ukrainian and Russian officials have claimed battlefield successes in the more than four-year war, as Russian air attacks on Ukraine continue. At least four people were killed in Russian attacks on the Ukrainian town of Sloviansk, regional authorities said on Tuesday. The governor of Sloviansk...

Madagascar's leader, Colonel Michaël Randrianirina, has sacked his prime minister and dissolved the cabinet he appointed soon after seizing power following youth-led protests five months ago. The colonel appointed Herintsalama Rajaonarivelo, from the private sector, as prime minister in October soon...

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan said Monday that it would not comply with a government order to shut down its base in Akobo, an opposition stronghold near the Ethiopian border where tens of thousands of refugees have fled. On Friday, the South Sudanese army ordered UN peacekeepers as well...

Jihadi extremist groups, including Boko Haram and one of its factions, have been blamed for intensified attacks targeting Nigeria’s military bases in the northeast of the country in the last week. At least two officers and several soldiers have been killed in the attacks, which analysts say shows a...

Iranian Deputy Health Minister Ali Jafarian says United States-Israeli attacks across his country have killed and wounded mostly civilians and the bombardment on oil facilities have caused toxic smoke to spread across the capital, Tehran. Speaking to Al Jazeera on Monday, Jafarian said at least 1...