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Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalized in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, a local education official said on Sunday. It is thought to be the first time this kind of assault has happened since the Taliban swept to power in August 2021 and began their...

Police in Hong Kong have detained dozens of people on charges of “breaching public peace,” including a woman carrying a bouquet of flowers and a man who held a candle, during a crackdown on commemorations of the anniversary of the bloodshed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Restrictions in Hong Kong...

Libyan authorities rounded up thousands of mostly Egyptian migrants and amassed them at the border, activists said Saturday, as Libya continued its crackdown on migrants. The migrants were detained in raids over the past two days on trafficking warehouses in the border town of Musaid and other areas...

The presidents of Kosovo and Serbia held talks on Thursday on resolving a political crisis that has spiraled into violence, with the leaders of France and Germany pressing them to take swift steps to reduce tensions. Kosovo's Vjosa Osmani and Serbia's Aleksandar Vucic met briefly in the presence of...

Fifty-four Ugandan peacekeepers died when militants besieged an African Union (AU) base in Somalia last week, Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, said, in one of the worst recent attacks by al-Shabaab jihadists in the war-torn country. “We discovered the lifeless bodies of 54 fallen soldiers...

Detainees in overcrowded cells in Haitian police stations are living in "inhumane, degrading conditions," the human rights group Réseau National de Défense des Droits Humains (RNDDH) said Thursday, with police relying on makeshift prisons amid insecurity and a crippled judicial system. In the Port...

An Australian court has found that Ben Roberts-Smith, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery, probably killed unarmed civilians in Afghanistan as three newspapers reported in 2018. Roberts-Smith, a former soldier with the elite Special Air Services Regiment (SASR), sued the Sydney Morning...

A Norway-based human rights group says Iran executed 142 prisoners in May, hitting a dark record even for the Islamic Republic. The Oslo-based Iran Human Rights Organization (IHR) announced in its latest report on Thursday that the figure is the highest monthly executions since 2015, averaging five...

Desperate families are trying to secure the release of more than 20,000 Ukrainians held captive by Russia. Rights activists have said the Geneva Conventions are being violated. According to Dmytro Lubinets, the human rights commissioner in the Ukrainian parliament, Russia is holding more than 20,000...

Sudan’s conflict has continued for a seventh continuous week, where fighting has propelled the nation into an all-out war since fighting between dueling generals from the Sudanese army and its rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out on April 15. On Thursday, the US imposed the first...