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The UK government will not apologize over Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade at next week’s Commonwealth heads of government (Chogm) summit in Samoa, Downing Street has said. Downing Street said on Monday that the government would not be paying reparations for slavery. News that neither...
A Belgian prosecutor said Friday that the country has launched an investigation into possible war crimes committed by a Belgian soldier fighting for Israel in Gaza. The federal prosecutor office said that the probe focuses on Belgian member of an elite unit of the Israeli military. According to...
Prabowo Subianto was inaugurated Sunday as the eighth president of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, completing his journey from an ex-general accused of rights abuses during the dark days of Indonesia’s military dictatorship to the presidential palace. After decades of dictatorship...
Gangs attacked in several neighborhoods of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Saturday, forcing many people to leave their homes after gunfire raged through the night. Authorities did not immediately release casualty information. Haiti’s police union said on its social media channels that the...
Mozambique has been rocked by the murder of two prominent opposition figures, ratcheting up tensions ahead of planned protests against the election results. New opposition party Podemos’ lawyer, Elvino Dias, who was also advisor to its presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane, died alongside party...
King Charles and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have faced renewed calls for the United Kingdom to pay slavery reparations, which could far exceed £200 billion ahead of the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chgom) in Samoa beginning on October 21. A group of 15 Caribbean...
United Nations agencies have called for an urgent increase in funding to deal with the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Lebanon as the Israeli military continues its offensive against Hezbollah. UNICEF and the World Food Program (WFP) warned in a joint statement on Tuesday that the fighting, which...
A Syrian man went on trial in Germany Tuesday accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity while fighting for Hezbollah on the side of Bashar al-Assad's regime. The defendant, identified by the court in Stuttgart only as 32-year-old Ammar A., faces charges including killings and...
A special court in Bangladesh issued arrest warrants on Thursday for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others, including her close aides, on charges of crimes against humanity during a student-led uprising in July and August that forced her to flee the country, a prosecutor said. Prosecutor...
The repression in Venezuela unleashed after the presidential elections has escalated alarmingly. The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission published a report on October 15 accusing the government of having committed crimes against humanity in the period before, during, and after the...