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Russian forces have launched ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, killing at least 16 people and wounding 33, officials said. Explosions rang out across several districts of Kyiv early on Thursday, shaking buildings and setting off car alarms, according to the Kyiv Independent, a...

The intensifying use of drones against civilians and humanitarian workers is a dangerous obstacle for aid operations in Ukraine, the UN's humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, said on Wednesday. Fletcher spoke to The Associated Press in an interview after a visit to the southern city of Kherson, where...

Ukraine’s former Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov has called for wartime elections in the biggest internal challenge President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has faced since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in 2022. In a bombshell address posted on YouTube on Tuesday, Fedorov said democracy in Ukraine...

At least 36 humanitarian workers and contractors have been killed in South Sudan since January, surpassing the 31 killed in all of 2025, as violence persists in the country that’s one of the most dangerous for aid workers, the UN humanitarian coordinator there said Wednesday. “These are not just...

The Organization of American States (OAS), a regional human rights body, has voted to convene an urgent meeting of foreign ministers over Nicaragua, declaring that representative democracy “no longer exists” in the country. On Wednesday, the OAS Permanent Council approved a resolution calling for...

Authorities in Kosovo have found the remains of more than 20 people in three suspected mass graves believed to contain victims of the region’s ethnic conflicts in the 1990s. In a joint statement on Wednesday, prosecutors, police officials and forensic investigators said “forensic medicine institute...

US sanctions on top members of the International Criminal Court "undermine the rule of law", the court said in a statement on Tuesday after Washington imposed measures on its president. "When judicial actors are threatened for applying the law, it is the international legal order itself that is...

Lebanon’s judicial authorities have decided to hand over a former senior Syrian military officer under ousted President Bashar Assad to Damascus after questioning him over crimes he allegedly committed during the country’s conflict, officials said Tuesday. Maj. Gen. Adel Issa will be the first...

The Trump administration has added the head of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and one of its senior lawyers to a list of sanctioned individuals. United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio framed the widening sanctions on Tuesday as part of his campaign to “dismantle” the ICC. “The Trump...

A Syrian court on Tuesday issued a death sentence to detainee Wassim al-Assad, a cousin of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad who was himself sentenced to death in absentia a week ago. Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan said Wassim al-Assad was convicted of multiple murders and "murder accompanied by torture...