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Police in Nepal arrested former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli early Saturday over the deaths of dozens of people during violent protests in September that toppled the government and resulted in new elections. Authorities arrested the powerful Communist Party leader at his residence on the...

European lawmakers voted Thursday to ease the setting up of new migrant detention centers outside the European Union, known as “return hubs.” Any EU nation can now negotiate on its own or in small coalitions to deport migrants not to their home countries but to facilities yet to be built outside the...

The UN General Assembly’s resolution on Wednesday declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations is being welcomed across Africa and among slave descendants and advocates of restorative justice. About 12 million Africans were...

Belarus freed 250 political prisoners on Thursday, March 19, following negotiations with the United States, while Washington agreed to remove sanctions on several Belarusian companies in return, a U.S. official said. The prisoner release, the largest in years, came hours after U.S. envoy John Coale...

Peru’s prime minister resigned ahead of a mandatory vote in the nation’s Congress, where she needed a majority of legislators to confirm her recent appointment. Denisse Miralles was appointed as prime minister in late February, after Interim President José Jerí was removed from his post following...

Myanmar opened its first parliamentary session in more than five years on Monday following an election that did not include major opposition parties, ensuring that the ruling military is set to retain a firm grasp on power. The military blocked Myanmar’s last parliament from convening when it seized...

Ecuadorian officials said Monday that they have deployed 75,000 soldiers and police officers to four crime-ridden provinces where the government is implementing a nightly curfew banning people from leaving their homes from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. Officials said that 253 people were arrested for breaking...

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...

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...