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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has been impeached by the National Assembly over his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, a move that plunged South Korea into political turmoil halfway through his presidency. The unicameral National Assembly voted 204 to 85 on Saturday to impeach Yoon...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has announced that his office is starting to resume its activities in Venezuela, despite past clashes with the government of President Nicolas Maduro. High Commissioner Volker Turk made the announcement on December 13 at a meeting with the UN...

Authorities in two states in southern Mexico arrested more than 100 local police officers Monday for various abuses and offenses, adding to the long list of police corruption scandals in the country. In the largest of the two incidents, 92 municipal police officers in the southern state of Chiapas...

More than 700 people have been killed in el-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur state since May, the United Nations human rights chief has said, imploring the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to halt a siege of the city. The siege and “the relentless fighting are devastating lives every day on a...

Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned "atrocities" committed against civilians by Mali's army, the Russian mercenary group Wagner, and Islamist armed groups since UN peacekeepers withdrew a year ago. Mali's ruling junta pushed the United Nations stabilization mission (MINUSMA) to leave last...

Amnesty International called for an investigation Wednesday into a former governor and two top army officials in Congo for “possible crimes against humanity” during a deadly crackdown on demonstrators last year protesting the UN peacekeeping mission in the country. The human rights group said in a...

Two former high-ranking Syrian intelligence officials have been charged with war crimes for allegedly torturing Americans and other civilians who were deemed enemies by the Syrian government and held in a military prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said Monday. US prosecutors say the two...

Judges of a European Union-backed court on Thursday ordered the arrest of Kosovo’s three other war veterans on alleged offenses against the administration of justice. A statement from the Specialist Prosecutor’s Office, based in The Hague, Netherlands confirmed ongoing operations in Kosovo...

Prosecutors with a special international court in The Hague on Friday charged Kosovo's former president Hashim Thaci, who is on trial for war crimes, with obstruction and contempt of court. Thaci "has been charged with three counts of obstruction of official persons in performing official duties...

Amnesty International said Thursday that it had found evidence that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in its war in Gaza. The accusation by the human rights group is the latest in a growing list of organizations, including numerous United Nations agencies, that allege Israel's...