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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has agreed in principle to admit Timor Leste as the group's 11th member, the bloc said in a statement on Friday, more than a decade after the country requested membership. The half-island nation, officially called Timor Leste, will also be granted...

The EU froze the assets of 19 people—including Investment and Foreign Economic Relations Minister, the chief justice at Myanmar’s supreme court, top military brass, and businesspeople linked to the armed forces—and banned them from traveling in Europe. The 27-nation bloc also froze the assets in...

British forces have paid compensation for the deaths of 64 children in Afghanistan, a toll four times higher than the 16 child deaths publicly acknowledged by the Ministry of Defense, according to a new report. Action on Armed Violence, a United Kingdom-based charity, found that the British...

Uzbekistan used force "unjustifiably" during fatal unrest in its autonomous Karakalpakstan region, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in a report that demands accountability for the July crackdown. Citing independent medical analysis of video and photo evidence, the report is the first by a major rights...

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday ruled that prosecutor Karim Khan can resume his investigations into atrocities in Afghanistan, a probe that had been put on hold for more than two years. According to the ruling, published by the ICC, the judges said the investigation could...

Fifty United Nations member countries today issued a joint statement that condemned the Chinese government’s persecution of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang. It was the largest group of states to publicly denounce Beijing’s human rights violations in Xinjiang, which the UN’s human rights...

Myanmar’s junta has officially banned the online news outlet The Irrawaddy and charged the outlet’s registered publisher for violating national security laws, state media reported over the weekend, following months of legal harassment. The ban is the latest on at least 20 media groups—news agencies...

RP Singh, the national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)—one of India’s major political parties—has written to India’s Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah calling for the establishment of a “truth commission” to expose the conspiracy behind the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and take cognizance...

Seoul's First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong has said, “There are a lot of speculative articles (over the solution to the wartime forced labor issue) but the governments have not made a decision, nor set a deadline (for resolution),” after a trilateral meeting with his American and Japanese...

Former Australian Army lawyer David McBride is being prosecuted for allegedly leaking a cache of documents to the ABC that informed a series on alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and led to a much-publicized federal police raid on the ABC’s Sydney offices in 2019. Two experts were set to support...