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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...

Enslaved African people were seared with hot metal brands bearing the royal crown, according to research by historians who have documented the monarchy’s centuries-long involvement in Britain’s slave trade. The Register of British Slave Traders identifies thousands of people who invested in Britain...

Turkish police have detained dozens of people after conducting nationwide raids targeting LGBTQ organizations. Police swooped on gay bars, offices and homes of activists in major cities including Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, and Mersin on Sunday, escalating Turkiye’s decade-long hostility toward LGBTQ...

Sudan has been embroiled in a brutal civil conflict since 2023 between rival militaries and their backers. Some 8.6 million people remain internally displaced, and 19.5 million people currently face crisis levels of food insecurity, which has been compounded by maritime disruptions and drought...

On any given week, Palestinians across the occupied West Bank can experience dozens of what appear to be isolated acts of Israeli violence and suppression. In early September, Israeli forces killed two teenagers during a military raid in al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah. Days later in Masafer Yatta...

Russian strikes killed eight civilians and wounded dozens of other people in Ukraine, local officials said Saturday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that sending European troops into Ukraine would amount to direct conflict with Russia. Ukraine is under mounting pressure from Russia’s...

More than 46,000 people have been driven from their homes in Yemen in the wake of the latest escalation in fighting between Houthi rebels and government forces, according to United Nations data. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned that the figure is rising “by the hour” in a...

The humanitarian aid system is crumbling as funding shrinks, pressures increase and governments not only fail to protect civilians but are increasingly responsible for endangering them, a new report warned on Thursday as figures revealed 64 million fewer people received aid last year. With aid...

Anthropologists and community leaders from Nagaland, a remote state in north-eastern India bordering Myanmar, have expressed joy and relief that human remains belonging to their ancestors that had been on display in a British museum for nearly a century are finally being returned. On Monday, the...