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A new prisoner swap between Ukraine and Russia has begun, officials in both countries said Monday, with Ukrainian soldiers who have spent nearly the entire duration of the war in captivity among those returning home. The exchange, agreed last week during talks in Turkey, involves detained people...

Israel has intercepted a Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg and other prominent activists, detaining those onboard and taking them to Israel. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) said the Israeli military had “attacked” and “unlawfully boarded” the “Madleen,” which was attempting to deliver...

Colombian Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay, a conservative presidential hopeful, was in “serious” condition Sunday following surgery for a gunshot wound at a political rally a day earlier, Bogota’s mayor said. The attack took place in a park in the Fontibon neighborhood in Bogota when armed assailants shot...

A member of Britain’s armed forces has been arrested in Kenya and U.K. military police are investigating, the Ministry of Defense said. The BBC and other British media reported that a British Army soldier was accused of rape. A U.K.-Kenya defense cooperation agreement allows thousands of British...

A leading political activist whose family said that he was abducted by Mali’s military authorities has been released after a month in captivity, his relatives said. Alassane Abba, one of the leaders of the former political party Codem, was dropped off along a road in Mali’s capital, Bamako...

Jailed pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been hit with further national security charges, a move rights groups said showed the Hong Kong government was trying to keep dissidents behind bars for as long as possible. Wong, who has been in jail for more than four years either awaiting trial or...

In a possible step towards justice, Eric Tataw, a Cameroonian national residing in the US state of Maryland, has been charged in Federal court with crimes including threatening violence against civilians. Tataw, 38, is a social media activist. The April indictment stemmed from an investigation...

U.S. military strikes on the Ras Issa Port in Hodeidah, Yemen, on April 17, 2025, caused dozens of civilian casualties and significant damage to port infrastructure, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack should be investigated as a war crime. As part of its military campaign against the Houthis...

A former defense minister of El Salvador and two retired colonels have been convicted of the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the country’s civil war, a lawyer for families of the deceased said. A five-member jury sentenced the defendants, now in their 80s or 90s, to 15 years in prison...

The United Nations is calling for an independent investigation after the discovery of dozens of bodies and evidence of human rights violations at militia-run detention facilities in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said he was “shocked” by revelations...