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Families greeted relatives released from Myanmar’s Insein Prison on Thursday as part of a mass amnesty granted by the country’s military rulers ahead of next month’s election. At least eight buses carrying prisoners were welcomed by friends and family outside the gate of Yangon prison. The military...

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...

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...

Tunisians took to the streets of downtown Tunis on Saturday to protest what they described as President Kais Saied ’s increasingly authoritarian rule and demand the release of all jailed political prisoners. The rally, held under the banner “Against Injustice,” brought together families of political...

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...

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...

The United Nations Security Council has approved a resolution mandating a transitional administration and an International Stabilization Force in Gaza that envisions a “credible pathway” to Palestinian statehood. The resolution, drafted by the United States as part of President Donald Trump’s 20...

Thousands of people have rallied across Mexico, protesting against growing crime, corruption, and impunity, in demonstrations that were organized by members of Generation Z. The marches on Saturday were attended by people from several age groups. In Mexico City, protesters tore down fences around...

International NGOs, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have decried a sharp decline in civil liberties and a pervading “injustice” in Tunisia since President Kais Saied came to power in 2019, as authorities escalate their crackdown on the opposition, activists, and foreign nongovernmental...

A London judge ruled Friday that global mining company BHP Group is liable in Brazil’s worst environmental disaster when a dam collapse a decade ago unleashed tons of toxic waste into a major river, killing 19 people and devastating villages downstream. High Court Justice Finola O’Farrell said that...