Media Coverage

The Venezuelan attorney general, a close ally of President Nicolás Maduro, has announced he is investigating opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González for alleged "incitement to insurrection." The opposition leaders had earlier called on the security forces to "side with the...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on August 4 condemned what he described as "far-right thuggery" and said perpetrators would face the full force of the law after days of violent anti-immigration protests culminated in hotels being targeted. Violent protests have erupted in towns and cities across...

An Israeli airstrike hit two schools in Gaza City on August 4, killing at least 30 people, Palestinian officials said, while the Israeli military said it struck a Hamas military compound embedded in the schools. An Israeli airstrike hit a tent camp inside a hospital in central Gaza earlier in the...

The leader of Hezbollah on August 6 pledged a "strong and effective" response to the killing of its military commander by Israel last week and said it would act either alone or with its regional allies. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah would wait for the right moment to respond but did not...

The United Nations says nine employees of UNRWA, its agency for Palestinian refugees, “may have been involved” in the October 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas, adding that they have been fired. “We have sufficient information in order to take the actions that we’re taking — – which is to say...

Bangladesh's parliament has been dissolved, a day after prime minister Sheikh Hasina was forced from power. Ms. Hasina resigned and fled the country after weeks of student-led protests spiraled into deadly unrest. The dissolution of parliament, a key demand of protesters, paves the way for...

The three major political parties in Nepal reached an agreement on the long-awaited amendments to the transitional justice-related bill on August 1. The three-member panel tasked by chiefs of the Nepali Congress, the Communist Party of Nepal–Unified Marxist–Leninist (CPN-UML), and the CPN (Maoist...

An ad-hoc committee tasked with promoting transitional justice for Indigenous peoples in Taiwan, has ceased operations and its responsibilities have been reassigned to the Executive Yuan (executive branch), according to the Presidential Office. The Presidential Office Indigenous Historical Justice...

Nigerian police have fired live bullets and tear gas to try and disperse thousands of protesters in the northern city of Kano rallying against the rising cost of living. Many businesses across the country have closed as demonstrators in major cities chant slogans such as: “We are hungry.” In Kano...

A court in Guinea has found the former dictator Moussa Dadis Camara and seven other military commanders guilty of crimes against humanity in a long-awaited verdict relating to a notorious massacre and mass rape that took place in 2009. In a ruling in the capital, Conakry, the initial charges...