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Seven bodyguards have been arrested over their alleged involvement in the murder of a popular Mexican mayor of Uruapan, Carlos Manzo, authorities have said. The office of the attorney general of Michoacán state said in a brief statement that the public servants had been detained "for their probable...

Hundreds of women wearing black gathered in a Johannesburg park on Friday, one day before the start of the Group of 20 summit, to stage a 15-minute lie-down protest symbolizing the 15 lives lost daily to gender-based violence in South Africa. South Africa, while putting forward a progressive agenda...

An Islamic State-backed rebel group killed 89 people during attacks on multiple villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the UN peacekeeping mission in the country said Friday. In the village of Byambwe, around 60 kilometers west of the town of Lubero, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF)...

Police in Mexico have arrested a man they accuse of being the mastermind behind the murder of a popular mayor. Carlos Manzo, the mayor of Uruapan, was shot dead on 1 November at a public event marking the Day of the Dead. Manzo was an outspoken critic of cartel violence in his home state of...

A Nigerian court has sentenced separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu to life in prison after convicting him on seven charges related to “terrorism” in a years-long trial. In his ruling on Thursday, Nigerian Judge James Omotosho said prosecutors proved that Kanu’s broadcasts and orders to his now-banned...

Pakistani security forces raided two Pakistani Taliban hideouts in the country’s northwest near the Afghan border, triggering intense shootouts that left 23 militants dead, the military said Thursday. The raids took place on Wednesday in Kurram, a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according...

At least 28 Palestinians have been killed in a wave of Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, medical sources tell Al Jazeera, in one of the largest breaches of the United States-brokered ceasefire that came into effect last month. The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said on Wednesday at least 77...

At least 25 people have been killed, including three children, and nearly 100 wounded in a barrage of Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine. Strikes on the city of Ternopil were the deadliest for weeks and the worst in the west of the country far from the front line since Moscow invaded in...

Syria has launched the trial of the first of hundreds of suspects for their role in deadly clashes earlier this year that killed hundreds in the country’s coastal provinces. Syrian state media reported on Tuesday that 14 people were brought before Aleppo’s Palace of Justice following a months-long...

COP30 host Brazil has created 10 new Indigenous territories, with the climate summit hit by protests in recent days. The designation means the areas, including one in part of the Amazon, will have their culture and environment protected under Brazilian law—though this is not always enforced. The...