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Two Kenyan activists were released from detention in Uganda after President Yoweri Museveni confirmed they were arrested more than a month ago and accused them of working with the opposition to unseat him in the January general election. Bob Njagi and Nicholas Oyoo were taken by armed men on Oct. 1...

A Russian drone slammed into a tower block in eastern Ukraine early Saturday while many were sleeping, killing three and injuring 12 people, Ukrainian authorities reported. The attack in Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth-largest city, was part of a large Russian missile and drone barrage across the country...

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday confirmed war crimes and crimes against humanity charges against Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, who remains at large. A three-judge panel found “substantial grounds” to believe Kony is responsible for 29 counts, including murder, sexual...

Bolivia’s Supreme Court has overturned the 10-year prison sentence of former interim President Jeanine Anez, who was convicted over an alleged plot to oust her left-wing predecessor, Evo Morales. Supreme Court Justice Romer Saucedo told reporters on Wednesday that the sentence against Anez, who has...

Russia fired a wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, killing at least six people including two children, and cutting power to tens of thousands, officials said Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attacks, which also wounded a dozen other people, showed Moscow was...

A mayor in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan was shot dead in a plaza in front of dozens of people who had gathered for Day of the Dead festivities, authorities said. Local politicians in Mexico are frequently victims of political and organized crime violence. The mayor of the Uruapan municipality...

The death toll in a massive police raid targeting a drug trafficking gang in Rio de Janeiro rose to at least 121 people, authorities said Thursday. An operation launched Tuesday in two of the city’s favelas sparked intense gunbattles that left at least four police officers dead and an unknown number...

The latest in a sustained Russian campaign of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure brought power outages and restrictions in all the country’s regions. Thursday, officials said, with the Ukrainian prime minister describing Moscow’s tactic as “systematic energy terror...

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces killed hundreds of patients and staff inside a hospital in El Fasher, according to the World Health Organization and the Sudan Doctors Network, after the paramilitary group claimed control of the city on Sunday. The WHO secretary general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said...

Scores of people have been killed in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces during their recent capture of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region, according to a medical group and researchers. The RSF, which has been fighting Sudan’s military for control of the country, killed at least...