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Rwanda has said international sanctions will reduce the likelihood of peace with M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), after the United Kingdom said it would pause some bilateral aid and impose other diplomatic sanctions on Kigali. “The punitive measures announced today by the UK...

Judges of the Supreme Court at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers war crimes court announced on Wednesday that they have upheld the 15-year prison sentence for former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander Salih Mustafa, who was found guilty of arbitrary detention, torture, and murder. The court...

Syria’s de facto leader reiterated his pledge to deliver a democratic political transition as talks on the country’s future opened. Ahmed al-Sharaa urged his countrymen to unite and pledged to establish a transitional justice body, as he welcomed participants of a national dialogue aimed at guiding...

Argentina’s President Javier Milei temporarily appointed two Supreme Court judges by decree, bypassing Congress during its summer recess to push through a particularly controversial candidate in a move criticized as an overreach of executive power. The president’s office said it was within Milei’s...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded the complete demilitarization of much of southern Syria. It is an announcement that could make conflict between Israel and the new leadership in Syria, after the toppling of President Bashar al-Assad, more likely. In a speech to Israeli military...

The European Union has lifted select sanctions on Syria as part of an effort to support democratic development during the country’s political transition. The bloc announced that it had suspended restrictions on oil, gas, and electricity, along with sanctions on the transport sector including...

Friedrich Merz, who is expected to be Germany’s next chancellor, says he would make sure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can visit Germany despite an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Speaking to reporters, a day after his conservative Christian...

Thanin Kraivichien, an anti-communist judge who became Thailand’s prime minister after a 1976 military coup but was ousted by another coup a year later because of his hardline policies, has died at age 97, his family announced. Thanin had become prime minister after a tumultuous three-year period of...

In a dramatic shift in transatlantic relations under President Donald Trump, the United States split with its European allies by refusing to blame Russia for its invasion of Ukraine in votes on three UN resolutions seeking an end to the three-year war. The growing divide follows Trump’s decision to...

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF in French) has said it is suspending its work in a famine-stricken camp for displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur region, as an increase in violent attacks has made it too dangerous to operate. In a statement, the medical charity said...