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A Norway-based human rights group says Iran executed 142 prisoners in May, hitting a dark record even for the Islamic Republic. The Oslo-based Iran Human Rights Organization (IHR) announced in its latest report on Thursday that the figure is the highest monthly executions since 2015, averaging five...

Desperate families are trying to secure the release of more than 20,000 Ukrainians held captive by Russia. Rights activists have said the Geneva Conventions are being violated. According to Dmytro Lubinets, the human rights commissioner in the Ukrainian parliament, Russia is holding more than 20,000...

Sudan’s conflict has continued for a seventh continuous week, where fighting has propelled the nation into an all-out war since fighting between dueling generals from the Sudanese army and its rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) broke out on April 15. On Thursday, the US imposed the first...

The Swiss Federal Criminal Court's appeals chamber in the southern city of Bellinzona upheld Alieu Kosiah's earlier war crimes conviction as well as a sentence of 20 years behind bars. Kosiah was found guilty of war crimes by Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court in June 2021 due to multiple...

Authorities in northern Mexico have found 45 bags containing human remains in a gorge on the outskirts of the city of Guadalajara and are trying to determine how many bodies are there. The bags found at a forest overlook contained remains of men and women, the state prosecutor's office in the...

An international aid agency in Afghanistan hopes to have an interim arrangement within days to allow its Afghan female staff to return to work in the southern province of Kandahar - the birthplace of the Taliban and home to the supreme spiritual leader. Norwegian Refugee Council Secretary General...

Thailand's new government must continue engaging with insurgents in the country's south to ensure peace, a top Thai official involved in the talks said on Friday. An alliance led by the progressive Move Forward party, which won this month's general election, says it will prioritize peace-building in...

Around 25 NATO peacekeeping soldiers defending three town halls in northern Kosovo were injured in clashes with Serb protesters on Monday, while Serbia's president put the army on the highest level of combat alert. KFOR, the NATO-led peacekeeping mission to Kosovo, condemned the violence. Serbian...

A Russian missile hit a clinic in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday, killing two people and wounding 30 in an attack that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called a crime against humanity. Video footage showed a devastated building with smoke pouring out of it and rescue workers looking on...

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed one of the world's toughest anti-LGBTQ laws, that includes the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality," drawing Western condemnation and risking sanctions from aid donors. Same-sex relations were already illegal in Uganda, as in more than 30 African...