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A Sri Lankan court found 15 men guilty on Tuesday of involvement in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed more than 260 people and wounded about 500. The April 21 attacks targeted three churches and three hotels across the island nation during Easter services and celebrations. The Islamic...

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...

Seven Ethiopian armed groups have formed an alliance aimed at overthrowing the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The groups announced the alliance on Sunday, saying that they would work together to set up an inclusive transitional government. “We have established a joint alliance called the...

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’...