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The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Tuesday authorizing new steps to ensure that perpetrators of crimes against peacekeepers face justice. Nearly 1,100 peacekeepers from countries around the world have lost their lives in the line of duty, and thousands of others have been...

Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children in what has become a key factor in an ongoing "genocide" in Gaza, United Nations investigators charged on Tuesday, in a report slammed by Israel. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry said it had found evidence that "Palestinian...

Sexual violence is increasingly being used as a "weapon of war" in Sudan to terrorize the civilian population, a UN report says. The violence is "unprecedented in terms of the scale, prevalence and brutality of its widespread use as a weapon of war", the report adds. Sudan has been hit by a...

The majority-Muslim southern city, in the Kordofan region, has been under siege for several months by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, also known as Hemedti. The United Nations Security Council expressed its "grave concern" on Saturday, regarding reports of the...

A new report published on Monday says denial of the war crimes committed during the Yugoslav wars is routinely used by those in power in Serbia to discredit opponents, civil society organizations, and independent media, particularly during periods of political tension and public dissent. The report...

Hungary’s Prime Minister Peter Magyar has launched a wide-ranging reform drive aimed at pulling the state out of the captivity into which it was forced by former Prime Minister Viktor Orban. In a fiery speech to parliament on Monday, Magyar announced a raft of economic, political, and legal measures...

Far-right lawyer Abelardo De La Espriella has clinched a narrow victory in Colombia’s presidential run-off election, according to an initial ballot count. Abelardo de la Espriella won 49.7 percent of the vote versus left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda’s 48.70 percent, with 99.9 percent of results released...

Iran’s president arrived in Pakistan for talks Tuesday with officials mediating negotiations between Tehran and Washington on a permanent end to the war in the Middle East, even as discrepancies emerged on what had been agreed so far and violence broke out again in Lebanon. President Masoud...

African and Caribbean leaders in Ghana on Friday urged former slave-trading nations to issue apologies and reparations over the trafficking of enslaved Africans after a landmark U.N. resolution in March declaring it “the gravest crime against humanity.” The “Next Steps” conference in the Ghanaian...

Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip have killed 1,005 Palestinians since a ceasefire was reached between Israel and the militant group Hamas last October, the Gaza Health Ministry said Wednesday. The enclave has seen near-daily strikes, as well as shelling and gunfire along the boundary that...