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Amid prolonged delays in constituting a committee to nominate bearers for the transitional justice commissions, the CPN (Maoist Centre) has called for immediate action to this effect. Addressing the House of Representatives, CPN (Maoist Centre) Chief Whip Hit Raj Pandey said his party demands...

Hong Kong’s top court overturned the convictions of three former organizers of an annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown over their refusal to provide information to police, marking a rare victory for the city’s pro-democracy activists. Chow Hang-tung, Tang Ngok-kwan, and...

Turkish security forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in the past week, the Turkish defense ministry said, even as the militants’ imprisoned leader called on his group to disband and his fighters declared a ceasefire. A defense ministry statement said the militants were killed in military...

South Sudanese forces have arrested the petroleum minister and several senior military officials allied with First Vice President Riek Machar as soldiers surrounded his home in the capital, Juba. Deputy army chief, General Gabriel Duop Lam, a Machar loyalist, was held earlier in the week, while...

Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine, and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive trying to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable. The aid freeze has imperiled the progress aid workers say they have made to stave off...

Residents fled a border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan after forces from both sides clashed into the early hours of Tuesday, March 4. It was the second consecutive day of tit-for-tat gunfire at Torkham, a key crossing between the two countries that has been closed since February 21 because of...

Ukraine said its forces could hold their own on the battlefield as they fight Russian troops after U.S. President Donald Trump paused military aid to Kyiv. Trump has upended U.S. policy on Ukraine and Russia, culminating in an explosive confrontation at the White House on Friday, when Trump...

The United Arab Emirates’ Federal Supreme Court rejected appeals on behalf of dozens of dissidents convicted in a mass trial that faced widespread international criticism. The Emirates’ state-run WAM news agency reported the decision by the Supreme Court’s State Security Chamber, which decided to...

Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo went on trial charged with rebellion, grave abuse of authority, and perturbing public tranquility in a case that has polarized the South American nation. The charges stem from a failed effort by Castillo to declare a state of emergency and dissolve Peru’s...

Germany has halted new development aid to Rwanda and is reviewing its existing commitments in response to the African nation's role in the conflict in neighboring Congo, the German development ministry said. “In coordination with partners, Germany will further restrict bilateral cooperation with...