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At least 22 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon in the past 24 hours, according to the country’s Health Ministry, despite a 45-day ceasefire extension. The total death toll since March 2 when the fighting resumed between Israel and Hezbollah has reached 3,042, the ministry said in...

Bolivia’s President Rodrigo Paz faces a deepening crisis as widespread protests and blockades leave the political capital under siege less than six months after he took office. Two weeks of road closures—spearheaded by the Bolivian Workers’ Central, COB, peasant unions and miners—have emptied...

A drone strike on a bustling market in central Sudan on Tuesday killed 28 people and wounded dozens more, a local rights group said, part of the war that has devastated the country since 2023. The Emergency Lawyers, a local rights group that tracks violations committed during the conflict, said on X...

A joint operation by the United States and Nigeria against Islamic State group fighters has killed 175 over the past few days, Nigeria’s military said Tuesday, while the head of the U.S. Africa Command said it showed the capabilities its forces could bring in Africa, home to the “epicenter of global...

Étienne Davignon, former European Commission vice president and veteran Belgian diplomat accused of involvement in the 1961 detention and mistreatment of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, has died at the age of 93, Belgian media reported Monday. Davignon was ordered by a Brussels court in March to...

The number of executions worldwide reached its highest level in more than four decades in 2025, driven largely by a sharp increase in Iran, Amnesty International said. At least 2,707 people are known to have been put to death, according to the rights group's annual review. That marks a 78% jump from...

Hungary and Ukraine will begin consultations on the rights of Ukraine’s ethnic Hungarian minority, the countries’ foreign ministers said Monday, an early sign that strained relations between Budapest and Kyiv could improve under Hungary’s new government. Bilateral ties between the neighboring...

The Philippine Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, has opened the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte amid political turmoil and deep division. The trial that opened on Monday came just days after chaos and a shootout in the upper house and a decisive change in its leadership, both stemming...

Félicien Kabuga, accused of bankrolling the Rwandan genocide, died on Thursday in a hospital in The Hague while in custody, a UN court said. Kabuga, whose exact birthday is not known but was over 90, was suffering from dementia and has been stranded in legal limbo since 2023 when judges ruled that...

The death toll from a Russian missile attack that flattened a Kyiv apartment building rose Friday to 24, including three teenagers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as he led the mourning for one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in the 4-year-old war. The cruise missile hit the...