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Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is set to host the leaders of China, Brazil, and other heads of states for festivities on Friday marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Victory Day, which is celebrated in Russia on May 9, has become the country’s most important...

Representatives from various organizations submitted a letter to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, urging the government to ensure credibility and transparency in the process of appointing officials of the two transitional justice commissions. During a meeting at the Prime Minister’s residence in...

“Our presence here is not innocent, and our history has been written... with deeply painful pages,” Macron said during a remembrance ceremony at the former royal palace in the capital Antananarivo. “Only you can make this journey of forgiveness,” he said after touring the palace with Princess...

The committee formed to nominate office bearers to the two transitional justice commissions has received 110 applications from former judges, diplomats, professors, government secretaries, human rights activists, and conflict victims. Of them, 80 have applied individually while 16 organizations...

Germany marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis’ Buchenwald concentration camp on Sunday as one of the country’s former presidents warned against “radicalization and a worldwide shift to the right.” The governor of the state of Thuringia, Mario Voigt, and former German President...

Israel's army has admitted its soldiers made mistakes over the killing of 15 emergency workers in southern Gaza on March 23. The convoy of Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulances, a UN car, and a fire truck from Gaza's Civil Defense came under fire near Rafah. Israel originally claimed...

Families of 16 people who were listed as missing from the Croatian war were notified that their loved ones had been identified after their remains were found in 2024 in a mass grave near Vukovar. Besides family members, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Veterans Tomo Medved and Chief State...

The United Nations named 54 officials from Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's government who it said are responsible for serious human rights violations and crimes, in what was described as a “tightly coordinated system of repression.” In a 234-page report, the UN Group of Human Rights Experts on...

An Algerian court sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal on Thursday to five years in jail for undermining national unity, drawing an expression of “regret” from France, which called for a swift and dignified end to the situation. Sansal has been detained in Algeria since November, spending...

More than 500 people may have been tortured or starved to death and then buried in a secret mass grave north of Khartoum. A visit to a base belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shortly after it was retaken by the Sudanese military found a previously unknown detention center, with...