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A special rapporteur for the UN human rights council has concluded that there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that the United States attacks on boats allegedly carrying drugs in the Pacific and Caribbean “constituted crimes against humanity”. The boat strikes, carried out since September 2025 on...

At least three people have been killed in northeastern Afghanistan in Pakistani air raids, Afghan officials said. Kunar provincial spokesperson Farid Dehqan told Al Jazeera that the air attack hit the Nurgal district at about 4am local time on Monday (23:30 GMT Sunday), killing three people and...

Monitor Dagmara Albrecht told the UN’s International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in her latest report that she has not received any new information from the Serbian authorities about the status of the contempt-of-court case against Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj and four...

Eighteen suspects facing federal charges for the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise have been flown to the United States. A military flight on Sunday transported the suspects from the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, to the U.S. state of Florida, where the defendants are set to...

The deadly collapse of a multistory building in Gaza has drawn new attention to the hardships facing Palestinians there nearly a year after a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas promised to kickstart reconstruction. But as talks faltered, plans for rebuilding stalled. Israel bars entry of almost all...

An Islamic State group member was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years in prison for aiding the terrorist organization that took credit for a suicide bombing that killed 13 US service members and about 160 Afghans at the Kabul airport five years ago during the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from...

The Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago has ended a state of emergency that granted the government extraordinary powers to combat crime, including the ability to imprison people without charge. The country’s prime minister told parliament on Wednesday that the government would not extend the...

Demonstrators in Pristina against the verdict convicting four former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leaders of war crimes resumed their protest at around noon on Thursday after continuing until around midnight on Wednesday, the day the judgment was handed down in The Hague. The KLA Veterans’...

Russian barrage of missiles and drones targeting Ukraine’s capital and the surrounding region injured at least 19 people overnight and into Thursday morning, authorities said. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces carried out overnight strikes against targets in Russia, including an...

A UN fact-finding mission has determined there are reasonable grounds to believe the US was behind military strikes on a school and a sports facility in Iran in ⁠February that killed 120 children, and that these constituted as war ⁠crimes. The school strike, which killed 156 civilians including 120...