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Armenia’s polling authority on Sunday confirmed that the party led by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan won a general election seen as a vote on its geopolitical future and a test of Russia’s influence in the South Caucasus country. Pashinyan’s government is seeking closer relations with the European...

Colombia has just become the first Latin American country to approve nationwide legislation prohibiting female genital mutilation, or FGM. Recognized by the World Health Organization as a human rights violation, female genital mutilation is defined as the full or partial removal of genitalia for non...

South Korea’s ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for sending military drones into North Korea, a move prosecutors argued was aimed at creating a pretext for his disastrous martial law declaration in 2024. The drone flights, which Pyongyang said included the dropping...

Niger’s military junta announced a new penal code that criminalizes homosexuality, an adviser to the justice minister said Friday. The West African nation is the latest to criminalize homosexuality, following similar measures earlier this year in Senegal. The new penal code punishes anyone who...

Amnesty International accused Israel on Wednesday of carrying out a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank with the intention to annex the Palestinian territory. The accusation came in a new, 149-page report alleging that the forced displacement of West Bank...

More than 3,000 Malawians, including hundreds of children, are staying in an open field in South Africa’s port city of Durban, after fleeing escalating anti-immigrant threats and attacks. The unrest is pushing thousands to seek an escape. Nigeria repatriated a first group of 260 nationals on...

At least 117.8 million people, or one in 70 individuals worldwide, remain forcibly displaced, according to a report - released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today. Almost three-quarters (72 percent) of all refugees came from just seven countries: Venezuela (6.4 million...

Pakistan has renewed deadly air strikes on neighboring Afghanistan, officials in both countries said Wednesday, in the worst violence in weeks following a period of relative calm. Pakistan's government said on Wednesday that 26 "militants" linked to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan group were killed...

The president of Colombia's legislative Commission of Investigation and ​Accusation, Gloria Arizabaleta, has proposed suspending President ‌Gustavo Petro from his duties until June 21, according to a document published Wednesday. Arizabaleta's motion is tied to ​a probe into Petro's alleged...

Croatia’s High Criminal Court on Wednesday upheld the 2023 verdict of the Zagreb County Court, which sentenced Branimir Glavas to seven years in prison for war crimes against Serbs in the city of Osijek, eastern Croatia in 1991. The crimes took place against Serb civilians in Osijek during Croatia’s...