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Thousands of Haitians took to the streets in Port-au-Prince to express their anger against armed gangs that control nearly all of the capital and surrounding areas and the government's failure to hold them off. Violent armed groups have united behind a coalition known as Viv Ansanm and forced over 1...

The United Nations named 54 officials from Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government who it said are responsible for serious human rights violations and crimes, in what was described as a “tightly coordinated system of repression.” In a 234-page report, the UN Group of Human Rights Experts on...

Zimbabwe police say they have arrested 95 people on charges of promoting public violence for taking part in demonstrations that called for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to leave office. A large police deployment in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, and other cities largely neutralized a call by war...

Israel's parliament passed a law expanding elected officials' power to appoint judges, defying a years-long movement against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's contentious judicial reforms that saw massive street protests. The approval comes as Netanyahu's government, one of the most right-wing in...

Close to 15 million people voted for jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in a presidential primary organized by Turkiye’s main opposition CHP, municipal officials said. In a sign of growing national support, the party announced late on Monday that an estimated 1.7 million members were joined by 13...

Israel's Supreme Court issued an injunction temporarily freezing the dismissal of the head of the domestic intelligence service as protestors returned to the streets for a fourth day. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that he had lost confidence in Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and intended to...

Indonesia’s Parliament unanimously voted to pass a controversial revision of its military law on Thursday that will allow military officers to serve in more government posts without resigning from the armed forces, despite growing opposition from pro-democracy and rights groups who see it as a...

Turkish authorities detained 37 people for sharing “provocative” content on social media, the interior minister, pressing ahead with a crackdown on dissenting voices that escalated with the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, a potential challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mayor Ekrem...

Peru’s president declared a state of emergency in the capital and ordered the deployment of soldiers to help police address a surge of violence, amid widespread outcry a day after the killing of a popular singer. President Dina Boluarte’s government published a decree saying that the state of...

Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo has ended a four-day hunger strike that he began in protest of his trial on rebellion and other charges, judicial authorities. A judicial clerk informed the Supreme Court’s panel overseeing the case that Castillo ended the hunger strike Thursday afternoon...