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A Colombian judge on Monday ordered the nation’s government to protect more than 30 historical artifacts that officials removed from exhibits in Bogota’s National Museum last week, as part of an effort by Colombia’s conservative government to change how the nation’s history is told in museums and...

A young man faces imminent execution in Saudi Arabia for attending protests and funerals when he was aged 15 to 17, say human rights groups, in the latest example of the kingdom’s surging use of the death penalty for non-violent crimes. Youssef al-Manasif was arrested in 2017 and accused of crimes...

A woman opens a 300‑year‑old box, unleashing a violent spirit—it is the spirit of colonialism and oppression roaring back to life. It is a pivotal scene in Sky’s supernatural series Possession and symbolizes a wider shift in Jamaica’s film industry, where directors are increasingly using the...

Syrian authorities have arrested a suspect accused of involvement in the mass killing of civilians in the coastal city of Baniyas in 2013, according to state media. Intelligence officials apprehended Ali Kayali, also known as Mihrac Ural, “while he was attempting to flee across the border,” state...

Colombia’s transitional justice system, established to address crimes committed during the country’s decades-long civil conflict, has indicted several former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), formerly the country’s largest rebel group. A group of 10 ex-rebels were charged...

A United States federal court in Boston has begun hearing the case of a Rwandan-American accused of covering up his role in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Prosecutors say Eric Nshimiye, a 55-year-old father of four and a U.S. citizen, took part in a nationwide outbreak of genocidal violence against...

Bolivia’s attorney general has announced an investigation into leftist former president Evo Morales, alleging his involvement in the murder and torture of European citizens in 2009. Seventeen years ago, police raided a hotel in the city of Santa Cruz, shooting dead Eduardo Rózsa Flores, a Bolivian...

U.S. prosecutors unveiled sweeping new criminal charges against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Thursday, accusing him and his wife of heading a state-sponsored system of repression responsible for beating, asphyxiating, and delivering electric shocks to scores of victims, including...

Hundreds of people attended a mass funeral for 105 Palestinians killed in a devastating Israeli attack on Gaza City in October 2023. Family members of the victims performed funeral prayers over the remains, which were wrapped in Palestinian flags, before they were taken to Martyrs Cemetery in the...

A judge on Monday sentenced in absentia 11 commanders of Colombia’s largest remaining rebel group to prison for recruiting 60 children as young as 8 into their ranks between 2004 and 2018. The commanders of the National Liberation Army, or ELN, were found guilty of recruiting boys and girls between...