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A building housing dozens of people collapsed in Gaza City early Wednesday morning, leaving rescuers clawing with bare hands through rubble until determining that 21 people, including 11 children, had been killed in their sleep. The sudden collapse of the building — which was known to be unstable...

A Russian drone struck a passenger bus in southern Ukraine early Wednesday, killing five people and wounding at least seven in the latest in a series of Russian strikes on civilian transportation. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the attack an atrocity with no military purpose. The...

Former Philippine President, Rodrigo Duterte, has appeared in person for the first time at the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he is charged with crimes against humanity for killings during his “war on drugs”. Prosecutors accuse Duterte — who was arrested and transferred to The Hague-based...

More than a year after the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed an agreement intended to end their confrontation, the two countries are back at the negotiating table in Geneva. In eastern Congo, however, the guns have not gone quiet. The dispute over the Democratic Forces for the...

Iranian security forces “coordinated” the killing, torture, and sexual abuse of hundreds of people who took part in the women-led nationwide protests in September 2022, according to leaked state documents and interviews. Tens of thousands of people, including children, took to the streets of towns...

Kosovo’s former head of state Hashim Thaci was sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague on Wednesday for the war crimes of arbitrary detention, cruel treatment, torture, and murder, committed from April 1998 to June 1999 during the Kosovo war. “In the names of...

EU Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos told a debate in the European Parliament on Tuesday about the glorification of convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal, Ratko Mladic, that images from Mladic’s funeral in Belgrade were “profoundly disturbing”. The debate was held a week after Mladic’s funeral with...

Israel’s air force carried out two airstrikes early Monday on a southern Lebanese village —killing at least 12 people and wounding others, including children — Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. Monday’s strikes came amid a new round of escalation between Israel and the militant Hezbollah group despite...

The number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia before colonization was dramatically underestimated, according to new research that suggests many more of them were killed. Modelling by a national research group puts the population levels before the 1788 first fleet arrived at...

Voting is underway in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in the southern Philippines in the first parliamentary elections since the region was established in 2019. Monday’s historic vote is seen as a crucial step towards self-governance after decades of rebellion and violence in the...