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At least 21 people have been killed in unrest since Mozambique’s top court confirmed the governing party Frelimo’s victory in disputed elections, the interior minister says. A total of “236 acts of serious violence were reported” since Monday across the Portuguese-speaking African country, in which...

Venezuela has said another 177 imprisoned election protesters have been released out of the more than 2,000 people who were arrested during clashes after the controversial July 28 vote. The announcement from Attorney General Tarek Saab would bring the total number of protesters released to 910...

Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that Israel has killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza by denying them clean water which it says legally amounts to acts of genocide and extermination. "This policy, inflicted as part of a mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, means Israeli authorities...

Syria’s new rulers have pledged to create special tribunals for those who have “committed crimes against Syrians” under deposed President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, according to the interim government’s spokesman. In an interview with Al Jazeera’s Osama bin Javaid, Obaid Arnaut said a key part of the...

An international war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday that evidence emerging from mass grave sites in Syria has exposed a state-run "machinery of death" under toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in which he estimated more than 100,000 people were tortured and murdered since 2013. Speaking after visiting...

Israel says it will close its embassy in Ireland, citing Dublin’s recognition of a Palestinian state and support for South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for its actions in Gaza. “The decision to close Israel’s embassy in Dublin was made in light of...

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has been impeached by the National Assembly over his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, a move that plunged South Korea into political turmoil halfway through his presidency. The unicameral National Assembly voted 204 to 85 on Saturday to impeach Yoon...

Two days of meetings on Myanmar ’s violent political crisis began Thursday in the Thai capital Bangkok, the latest in a long series of regional talks that have made no headway in restoring peace to the war-torn Southeast Asian nation. Myanmar has been wracked by violence since its army in February...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has announced that his office is starting to resume its activities in Venezuela, despite past clashes with the government of President Nicolas Maduro. High Commissioner Volker Turk made the announcement on December 13 at a meeting with the UN...

Authorities in two states in southern Mexico arrested more than 100 local police officers Monday for various abuses and offenses, adding to the long list of police corruption scandals in the country. In the largest of the two incidents, 92 municipal police officers in the southern state of Chiapas...