Refugees and humanitarian workers said on Thursday that some of the thousands of Rohingya being shipped to a remote island had been coerced, despite assertions by the Bangladesh government that none would be forced to go.

Britain has begun a three-year deployment of 300 troops to the West African country of Mali as part of a UN peacekeeping mission, entering a region beset by an increasingly dangerous violent Islamist insurgency.

The leadership of a broad coalition of Western Hemisphere nations on Wednesday accused the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor of failing to take swift action on allegations that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s government has committed crimes against humanity.

Delegations from Syria’s government, the opposition, and civil society are meeting in Geneva for the latest round of talks to revise the war-battered country’s constitution.

Soldiers have hoisted the Azerbaijani flag in the final district given up by Armenia under a peace deal that ended weeks of fighting over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

West Papuan leaders have declared a provisional “government-in-waiting” of the contested Indonesian province, as the United Nations said it was “disturbed by escalating violence” there, including the killing of a child allegedly by security forces.

Ethiopia’s nearly monthlong war against rebellious northern forces may be transforming into a guerrilla conflict, experts said on Tuesday, even though federal troops declared victory after capturing the Tigrayan regional capital over the weekend.

Cuban authorities have broken up a protest by a group of dissident artists, academics, journalists, and activists, evicting them from their headquarters where they had declared a hunger strike against curbs on civil liberties.