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Gunmen opened fire in two separate attacks Thursday on the Honduran coast, killing at least 25 people, including six police officers, authorities said. The first incident took place at a plantation in the municipality of Trujillo in northern Honduras, where at least 19 workers were shot and killed...

After years of allegations of land dispossession by a now-dissolved Catholic group, the highest ecclesiastical authorities in the Andean country on Saturday held a symbolic reparation ceremony for the Indigenous people whose land was taken away. The Peru-based Sodalitium Christianae Vitae was...

Israeli attacks have killed at least 11 people in southern Lebanon, including several healthcare workers. The attacks occurred on Friday in the Tyre district. They are the latest in a long line, questioning the durability of the shaky United States-mediated ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. More...

Colombian security forces Friday flooded into the southwestern municipality of Silvia following a violent territorial dispute between two Indigenous groups the day before that left at least seven people dead and more than 100 injured. The army said on social media that more than 500 soldiers, along...

The Philippine justice secretary has ordered law enforcement to apprehend a senator wanted by ⁠the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged crimes against humanity, a day after the country’s top court rejected his bid to block his arrest. Senator ⁠Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, the former police...

Venezuela will release 300 prisoners this week under the framework of an amnesty law aimed at freeing political detainees, national assembly chief Jorge Rodriguez said Tuesday, May 19. Under Washington's watchful eye, Venezuela's interim leader Delcy Rodriguez has embarked on a series of reforms...

A former Libyan prison boss was described as a "notorious torturer" known as the "Angel of Death" who raped, murdered, and abused detainees, the International Criminal Court (ICC) heard on Tuesday. The ICC was kicking off three days of hearings against Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, 47, suspected of...

A United Nations expert spoke out on Tuesday, May 19, about the alleged "torture" of Palestinian prisoners and "potentially unlawful deaths" in Israeli prisons since October 2023. The comments come as Israel faces growing scrutiny over detention conditions following Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack...

The war in Ukraine, now well into its fifth year, “is becoming deadlier by the day”, a senior UN official warned in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday. “In the last week alone, we witnessed one of the largest aerial bombardments of Ukraine since the Russian Federation’s full-scale...

A car bomb explosion near a Syrian Defense Ministry building in Damascus has killed at least one soldier and wounded more than 20 people, authorities say. In a statement carried by state media on Tuesday, the ministry said members of an army unit had discovered an improvised explosive device planted...