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South Sudan has started holding a trial for First Vice President Riek Machar, who has been sacked by his decades-long rival, President Salva Kiir, and charged with murder, treason, and crimes against humanity in relation to rebellion and an attack by a militia linked with ethnic tensions. Earlier...

Hundreds of bodies could have been buried at a mass grave discovered in Egypt’s Sinai province by human rights campaigners. Bodies were found at a burial site near a military outpost by the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights. The group discovered the mass graves while conducting research into...

The criminal trial of South Sudan’s suspended vice president began in the capital Monday as Riek Machar appeared in a cage alongside his co-defendants. President Salva Kiir suspended Machar as his deputy earlier this month after justice authorities filed criminal charges for Machar’s alleged role in...

Israeli forces have killed 91 Palestinians in Gaza in a single day, according to medics, including family members of a prominent doctor, and four people on board a truck fleeing northern Gaza City. The killings on Saturday came as Israeli forces continue to press on with their relentless air and...

A Haitian gang attacked a small town northwest of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, killing, kidnapping, and burning down buildings as gang violence devours the Caribbean nation. Gunmen opened fire on the streets of Bassin Bleu around noon on Thursday, killing at least one high school teacher...

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed 75 people in a drone strike that hit a mosque at a camp for displaced people near the western city of El-Fasher on Friday, first responders said. The RSF conducted their strike as they make gains in their push to capture Darfur's last army-held...

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has denounced Israel’s air strikes on three towns in the south of the country, as the latter again flouted its truce with Hezbollah. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported on Thursday that the Israeli army carried out several strikes on the densely...

A special Colombian court sentenced 12 former military officers to between five and eight years of reparation work for their involvement in 135 “false positive” deaths – killing civilians and then falsely reporting them as rebel fighters – between the years 2002 and 2005. Thursday’s landmark ruling...

Israeli forces have unleashed a new wave of attacks on Gaza, striking areas near some of the few hospitals still functioning, while their ground assault on Gaza City leaves a mounting civilian toll. At least 83 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on Thursday, medical officials told Al Jazeera...

Belarus has pardoned 25 prisoners as part of an ongoing drive to improve relations with the United States. President Alexander Lukashenko’s office announced the decision on Tuesday, less than a week after Minsk freed dozens of prisoners following an appeal by U.S. President Donald Trump to release...