Media Coverage

Ukraine’s Presidential Office announced that the International Register of Damage for Ukraine has begun accepting applications for compensation from families who lost close relatives due to Russia's full-scale invasion. According to the register’s website, the application process for this category...

The administration of outgoing United States President Joe Biden has imposed sanctions on the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. In a statement on Thursday, January 16, the U.S. Treasury Department stated the SAF has committed lethal attacks on both civilians and...

UN Secretary-General welcomed the announcement of a deal to secure a ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza following 15 months of war. Mr. Guterres noted that, from the outset of the violence, he has called for an immediate ceasefire and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. The...

Giorgi Gakharia, a former prime minister of Georgia who now leads one of the country's main opposition groups, was hospitalized after being severely beaten, a spokeswoman for his party told Reuters. The source stated that Gakharia had sustained injuries on his face and head during an assault by...

On January 15, hundreds of Georgian companies suspended work in an unprecedented three-hour nationwide strike. Protest banners appeared throughout Tbilisi early in the morning calling for public participation in an action aimed at demonstrating the potential consequences of Georgia’s international...

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was arrested after a dramatic and drawn-out showdown with law enforcement officials. Police and corruption officers scaled the walls of his residential compound, where he had been holed up for nearly two weeks, evading arrest, after his short-lived...

Special Envoy Hans Grundberg highlighted the alarming trend of escalation provoked by Yemen’s Houthi forces who began attacking international shipping in the Red Sea last year in support of Hamas operations in Gaza. The Yemen attacks provoked retaliatory strikes by multiple states, including the...

United Nations rights chief Volker Turk emphasized the importance of transitional justice for Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, during the first-ever visit by someone in his post to the country. Since Islamist-led rebels seized Damascus last month, the United Nations has called for Assad and...

Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire deal with Israel after more than 460 days of a war that has devastated Gaza. Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani said that the ceasefire deal would come into effect on Sunday January 12 but added...

Israel and Hamas agreed to a deal to halt fighting in Gaza and exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, an official briefed on the deal told Reuters on Wednesday, opening the way to a possible end to a 15-month war that has upended the Middle East