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Drones operated by Haitian security forces and private contractors have killed at least 1,243 people and injured 738 others, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. Of those killed, 17 were children and 43 were adults not believed to be members of any criminal group. Of those injured, at least 49 were...

Intense air attacks have pounded Tehran and other Iranian cities on the seventh day of the U.S.-Israeli war on the country, amid warnings from United States Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the bombardment was “about to surge dramatically”. Israel’s military said on Friday morning it had begun a...

The United States and Venezuela agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations in a major shift in a historically adversarial relationship, the State Department said on Thursday. The move comes after rounds of Trump administration officials have visited the South American nation following a U.S...

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday it has fired 230 drones at several facilities hosting U.S. troops in the Middle East, including a base in Erbil in northern Iraq and the Ali Al Salem Air Base and Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. The IRGC said the attacks were among its “first...

Trinidad and Tobago declared a new state of emergency Tuesday, only about a month after the end of the previous one, as authorities in the Caribbean nation continue to grapple with high levels of violent crime. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar cited credible reports of attacks planned against...

The U.S. imposed sanctions Monday on the Rwandan Defense Forces and four of its senior officials for supporting the March 23 Movement, an armed group responsible for human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The latest penalties come after a U.S.-mediated peace agreement was...

Colombia is at risk of “reverting to the serious human rights situation” it faced before a peace deal with the nation’s largest rebel group improved security conditions, the United Nations warned Thursday, adding that an uptick of violence in rural areas could also “undermine” the nation’s upcoming...

A special commission of Venezuela’s National Assembly announced Tuesday that over 3,200 people have been fully released since the amnesty law took effect four days ago. This group includes both former detainees and those previously under house arrest or other restrictive measures. Lawmaker Jorge...

Venezuela’s acting president on Thursday signed into law an amnesty bill that could lead to the release of politicians, activists, lawyers, and many others, effectively acknowledging that the government has held hundreds of people in prison for political motivations. The approval marks a reversal...

A second round of indirect negotiations between Iran and the United States in Geneva on Monday ended without concrete results. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and a team of technical experts met with U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner...