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The number of executions worldwide reached its highest level in more than four decades in 2025, driven largely by a sharp increase in Iran, Amnesty International said. At least 2,707 people are known to have been put to death, according to the rights group's annual review. That marks a 78% jump from...

The Philippine Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, has opened the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte amid political turmoil and deep division. The trial that opened on Monday came just days after chaos and a shootout in the upper house and a decisive change in its leadership, both stemming...

The death toll from a Russian missile attack that flattened a Kyiv apartment building rose Friday to 24, including three teenagers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as he led the mourning for one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in the 4-year-old war. The cruise missile hit the...

Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America sent a letter Monday to the United Nations warning that organized crime—including illegal mining, drug trafficking, and logging—is driving violence and accelerating environmental destruction in rainforest communities. However, they...

Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the Houthi group have signed a United Nations-backed agreement in Jordan to exchange more than 1,600 detainees, marking the largest prisoner exchange since the country’s civil war began in September 2014. Under the accord, the Houthis will release...

Israel has drastically escalated its attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip in the five weeks since halting its joint bombing with the United States of Iran, redirecting its firepower to the devastated Palestinian enclave. Conflict monitor ACLED, which tracks Israeli attacks in Gaza, said in ⁠a report...

Two weeks of intense clashes in southern Sudan have killed over 61 people, including nine children, a local medical group said Wednesday, fighting that is part of the larger war that has gripped the African country since 2023. According to the Sudan Doctors Network, which monitors casualty tolls in...

Israeli legislators have approved a bill to establish a special tribunal with the power to impose the death penalty on Palestinians accused of involvement in the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023. Israeli and Palestinian rights groups warn that the bill will make the death penalty too easy to...

Russia resumed strikes on Ukraine as a three-day truce expired on Tuesday, May 12, attacking the capital with drones and killing one person in the eastern region of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian authorities said. The Russian military, meanwhile, said it had shot down 27 Ukrainian drones after the...

A new wave of gang violence in Haiti’s capital forced hundreds to flee their homes over the weekend, leaving families scattered along the road to the country’s main airport on Monday. Gangs have overtaken more than 70% of Port-au-Prince since the assassination of President Jovenal Moïse in July 2021...