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Ivory Coast officially took control of the last remaining French military base in the country as the majority of French forces departed from countries across West Africa. Some 80 French servicemen will continue to stay in the country to advise and train the Ivorian military, according to the French...

Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy party took an initial step toward dissolving Thursday, in the latest sign of the Chinese territory’s narrowing space for civil society groups following Beijng’s crackdown on dissent. The Democratic Party’s central committee decided to set up a task force to look...

Former colonial powers must apologize and pay compensation for their historic role in the enslavement of Africans, Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Mitchell addressed von der Leyen late on Wednesday at the 48th heads of government...

Hamas has handed over the bodies of an Israeli woman, her two young children, and an elderly man who were taken captive during the October 2023 attack on southern Israel. Hamas staged a public handover ceremony in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, displaying four coffins on a stage in front of a poster...

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro has been charged with allegedly masterminding and leading a far-right conspiracy to cling to power through a military coup. The South American country’s attorney general, Paulo Gonet, leveled the charges against the radical rightwing populist and several key...

The Netherlands agreed to return a collection of 119 artifacts to Nigeria, the latest objects to be sent back to their homelands as museums grapple with their colonial-era holdings. The artifacts, known as the Benin Bronzes and mostly housed in a museum in Leiden, were looted in the late 19th...

The Israeli army has continued with its large-scale military raid in the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin and its refugee camp, forcing thousands to flee their homes. Wednesday, February 19 marks 30 days since Israeli forces began their assault on Jenin which then spread to other parts of...

A top Hamas leader says the militant group will release six living Israeli hostages on Saturday and the bodies of four others on Thursday, a surprise increase that apparently comes in return for Israel allowing mobile homes and construction equipment into the devastated Gaza Strip. The six are the...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk accused Rwanda-backed rebels, who seized a second major city in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), of killing children and attacking hospitals and warehouses storing humanitarian aid. Turk said in a statement that his office “confirmed cases...

Attacks by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have killed hundreds of civilians, including infants, in White Nile state, Sudanese officials and rights groups. Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the paramilitary group targeted civilians in the past few days in villages in...