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The top United Nations human rights watchdog on Tuesday ordered Venezuela to avoid destroying tally sheets and other electoral material as it investigates allegations that President Nicolás Maduro stole this summer’s election.  The UN Human Rights Council announced the opening of the probe in a...

After four months and the sacking of a government delegation, the stalled South Sudan peace talks resumed Wednesday in Kenya, the latest effort to end the conflict that has long crippled the African country’s economy.  The talks are taking place between South Sudan’s government and opposition groups...

The Australian Defense Force has introduced dual names for RAAF Base Wagga and Blamey Barracks – Kapooka – on Wiradjuri Country, acknowledging the cultural significance of the land and the contributions of First Nations communities to Australia's defense. RAAF Base Wagga is now also recognized as...

Palestinian officials say Fatah and Hamas are closing in on an agreement to appoint a committee of politically independent technocrats to administer the Gaza Strip after the war. It would effectively end Hamas’ rule and could help advance ceasefire talks with Israel. The rival factions have made...

Syrian and Russian jets have intensified air attacks in Idlib city and positions in Aleppo as the government of President Bashar al-Assad tries to slow the advance of opposition fighters. The raids on Monday followed big gains by the opposition over the past few days that has greatly shifted the...

Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has accused Israel of committing war crimes and ethnic cleansing in the Gaza Strip, echoing the allegations by the International Criminal Court against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, Yoav Gallant. Yaalon, a former army...

Senegal has commemorated the 80th anniversary of a colonial-era massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War II and were shot by French soldiers in 1944 for demanding fair treatment and payment on their return. The West African country has long demanded its former colonizer...

The Brussels Court of Appeal on Monday found the Belgian state guilty of “crimes against humanity” for kidnapping five mixed-race women when they were children in Congo under colonial rule. Overturning a lower court decision from 2021, the judge said that the government at that time had “a plan to...

The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a document key to advancing the peace process in the DRC's troubled east, ceasefire-broker Angola said on Monday. Since 2021 the Kigali-backed and largely ethnic Tutsi M23 rebel militia has seized swathes of the eastern DRC, displacing...

The top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday asked judges to grant an arrest warrant for Myanmar’s junta leader. Min Aung Hlaing is suspected of committing crimes against humanity through the deportation and persecution of the mainly Muslim Rohingya minority which accuse...