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The UN’s top human rights official issued a stark new warning Thursday about Sudan, saying he fears “a new wave of atrocities” amid a surge in fierce fighting in the Kordofan region. UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk urged “all states with influence over the parties to take immediate action to halt...

Israel’s military has killed seven Palestinians, including two children, in Gaza and announced that it will allow the Rafah crossing to open exclusively for the exit of people from the war-torn territory. The killings on Wednesday mark the latest Israeli violations of a United States-brokered...

The UN General Assembly on Wednesday demanded by a wide margin that Russia immediately and unconditionally return all Ukrainian children who have been forcibly transferred or deported since the start of the war. The draft resolution during the emergency special session was approved surpassing the...

Thousands of people on Sunday joined protest marches in Croatia against a surging far right following a spate of incidents that have fueled both ethnic and political tensions in the European Union country. Gatherings dubbed “United against fascism” were organized in four major cities, including the...

A court in Peru has sentenced former President Pedro Castillo to 11 years, five months and 15 days in prison for seeking to dissolve Congress. The decision on Thursday came nearly three years after Castillo sought to disband the legislature on December 7, 2022, as he faced a third set of impeachment...

General Horta Inta-A has been sworn in as the transitional president of Guinea-Bissau, one day after army officers announced they had deposed the country’s president, staging the West African nation’s latest military coup. “I have just been sworn in to lead the high command,” Inta-A declared, after...

The UN human rights office has urged a “prompt and impartial” investigation into Israeli strikes in Lebanon, warning of possible violations of international humanitarian law nearly a year after a ceasefire was signed. Thameen Al-Kheetan, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...

An attack on a village in western Democratic Republic of Congo left 14 people dead, a military official said Monday, as violence over land ownership between rival communities has intensified. The attack took place during the early hours of Sunday in the village of Nkana, around 75 kilometers...

An ally of separatist Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik was leading the presidential election in the Serb-run half of Bosnia, according to near-complete preliminary results on Monday, as the opposition claimed a major vote fraud. The snap vote on Sunday in Republika Srpska was held after Dodik was...

Two suicide bombers and a gunman attacked the headquarters of a security force in northwestern Pakistan on Monday morning, killing three officers and wounding 11 others, police and rescue officials said. The attack took place in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering...