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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...

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...

European foreign ministers have agreed to meet at the end of January to discuss lifting sanctions on Syria. Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, said that the foreign ministers would convene in Brussels on January 27 to probe how the 27-member bloc might approach the issue. After...

Libya’s eastern-based parliament has approved a national reconciliation and transitional justice law, as stated by three of its lawmakers. The measure is aimed at reunifying the oil-producing country after over a decade of factional conflict. The UN’s mission to Libya has repeatedly called for an...

On the eve of President Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration, Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado was detained. At 3:21 p.m. local time, Machado’s press team said that security forces intercepted her convoy. But, in the coming hour, a 20-second video of Machado emerged online where she...

Lebanon’s newly elected President Joseph Aoun has summoned Nawaf Salam, the head of the International Court of Justice, to designate him as the country’s prime minister after he won the backing of more than half of parliamentarians.

Lebanese army chief Joseph Aoun was voted in as president in a second round of parliamentary voting Thursday, ending a more than two-year vacuum in the crisis-hit, war-battered country.

Ivory Coast has announced that French troops will leave the country this month after a decades-long military presence, becoming the latest African nation to downscale military ties with its former colonizer. In an end-of-year address to the nation on Tuesday, President Alassane Ouattara said the...

Since Israel’s devastating assault on the besieged Palestinian territory, the population of Gaza has fallen 6 percent according to The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). With the conflict beginning nearly 15 months ago, about 100,000 Palestinians have left the enclave while more than...