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Dozens of young people congregated at Nepal’s burnt-out parliament building on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of deadly anti-corruption protests that toppled the former government. The rallies on Sept. 8 and 9, 2025, were initially sparked by anger over a brief government ban on social media but...

Rescuers in Yemen pulled more bodies from the rubble Wednesday of a prison run by Iran-backed Houthi rebels that was hit in a deadly airstrike earlier this week, as an escalation between the rebels and a Saudi-led coalition threatened Yemen’s fragile ceasefire. The renewed fighting is also...

Syria is advancing efforts on justice and accountability while strengthening cooperation with the International Commission of Inquiry and international organizations, Syria’s representative to the UN Human Rights Council Yasser al-Farhan said. Addressing a Human Rights Council meeting, Al-Farhan...

Settler terrorists supported by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government are committing ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, Ed Miliband has said, in the UK’s starkest condemnation since the foundation of the Israeli state. Andy Burnham, the prime minister, said he would “not stand by” as horrific suffering...

As Yemen experiences its most intense fighting between government and Houthi forces in years, a new wave of child recruitment in the country is taking shape. Ali Hazazi, head of the Human Rights and Civil Society Organizations Department at the Office of the President in Aden, told Al Jazeera that...

Nicaragua has urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to allow its case against Germany to continue, saying its arms exports to Israel violate the 1948 Genocide Convention and humanitarian law, as they were used in the genocidal war on Gaza. The appeal came on Tuesday as public hearings on...

An additional three dozen health facilities serving more than 400,000 people in Sudan are closing this year due to global aid cuts, worsening a dire humanitarian situation in a country torn by more than three years of war, aid groups said Tuesday. The cuts come to a health care system that once...

A UN expert said on ‌Monday that Israeli clearance of rubble in Gaza could destroy valuable evidence of "atrocity crimes" and prevent the recovery of human remains. Israel's assault on Gaza — started after the deadly raid into Israel by Hamas in October 2023 — has generated around 61 million tons of...

A ceasefire agreement with the jihadist group Boko Haram has been in effect for the past three months and is expected to be extended, but has not been previously reported publicly. The agreement is linked to hostage negotiations that secured the release in June of 360 civilians abducted by the group...

Ratko Mladić, a Serbian general convicted of orchestrating the worst massacre in Europe since the second world war, has been given a hero’s funeral attended by thousands in Belgrade despite international alarm. Known as the “Butcher of Bosnia” for his role during the Balkans genocide in the 1990s...