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Sudan’s notorious paramilitary group killed at least 30 people in an attack on Omdurman, the sister city of the capital, Khartoum, the authorities and an activist group said. Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are alleged to have kidnapped dozens of people, including women, from Salha, an area in the...

The UN's top court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), has begun hearings for an opinion on Israel's legal duty to allow aid to Palestinians and to cooperate with the UN's Palestinian aid agency, UNRWA—both of which Israel has barred in Gaza. Israel stopped allowing aid into Gaza on March 2...

The head of Israel’s internal security service says he will resign in June over the failure of his agency to warn of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attacks—defusing an escalating battle with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announced his resignation, saying he will formally step...

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have agreed to draft a peace deal by May 2, committing to respect each other’s sovereignty and refraining from providing military support to armed groups. DRC Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner and her Rwandan counterpart Olivier...

Pakistan threatened to suspend its participation in all bilateral agreements with India, including the 1972 Simla Agreement, in a retaliatory move after India said it would suspend its own participation in the Indus Water Treaty and close the land border the day before. The Simla Agreement was a...

Russia attacked Kyiv with an hours long barrage of missiles and drones, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 70 in its deadliest assault on the Ukrainian capital since last July and just as peace efforts are coming to a head. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after the attack...

Assistant Secretary-General (ASG) Robert Petit, leading a delegation from the Independent International Impartial Mechanism (IIIM), concluded a series of high-level meetings during his second visit to Damascus, including a meeting with the Foreign Minister Asaad Al Shaibani and officials from the...

The committee formed to nominate office bearers to the two transitional justice commissions has received 110 applications from former judges, diplomats, professors, government secretaries, human rights activists, and conflict victims. Of them, 80 have applied individually while 16 organizations...

Ukraine said it would reciprocate any genuine ceasefire by Moscow, but voiced skepticism after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a temporary Easter truce in Ukraine starting Saturday, April 19. The announcement from Kyiv came as Russia and Ukraine conducted their largest prisoner exchange...

The security situation in Haiti is in “free fall”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned, as armed groups continue to unleash deadly violence in the capital and other areas across the Caribbean nation. In a statement, HRW said criminal gangs have escalated their attacks in Port-au-Prince since late...