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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...

The Swiss Federal Criminal Court's appeals chamber in the southern city of Bellinzona upheld Alieu Kosiah's earlier war crimes conviction as well as a sentence of 20 years behind bars. Kosiah was found guilty of war crimes by Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court in June 2021 due to multiple...

Authorities in northern Mexico have found 45 bags containing human remains in a gorge on the outskirts of the city of Guadalajara and are trying to determine how many bodies are there. The bags found at a forest overlook contained remains of men and women, the state prosecutor's office in the...

An international aid agency in Afghanistan hopes to have an interim arrangement within days to allow its Afghan female staff to return to work in the southern province of Kandahar - the birthplace of the Taliban and home to the supreme spiritual leader. Norwegian Refugee Council Secretary General...

Thailand's new government must continue engaging with insurgents in the country's south to ensure peace, a top Thai official involved in the talks said on Friday. An alliance led by the progressive Move Forward party, which won this month's general election, says it will prioritize peace-building in...