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The European Union’s executive arm will recommend that member countries open membership negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on March 12, despite lingering ethnic divisions in the Western Balkan country. Bosnia-Herzegovina is among six nations...

Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry has tendered his resignation and appealed for calm as the country descends into chaos. The 74-year-old announced he would step aside late on March 11 following an emergency meeting of regional nations. Haiti has been plagued by spiraling violence in recent weeks as...

Palestinians began fasting for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on March 11 with cease-fire talks at a standstill, hunger worsening across the Gaza Strip and no end in sight to the five-month-old war between Israel and Hamas. The United States, Qatar, and Egypt had hoped to broker a cease-fire ahead...

The Indian government has announced rules to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act, weeks before Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks a rare third term for his Hindu nationalist government. The controversial law passed in 2019 by Modi’s government allowed Indian citizenship for non-Muslim refugees...

President Macky Sall plunged Senegal into crisis with a last-minute postponement of the presidential poll, originally scheduled for February 25. After a month of uncertainty which sparked outcry at home and abroad, the country’s top constitutional body on March 7 agreed with the presidency for the...

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, has called for people to join mass election day protests against President Vladimir Putin. In a video on YouTube, Navalnaya on Wednesday urged Russians to gather at polling stations on March 17 and spoil their ballots or vote...

South Africa has asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to order additional emergency measures against Israel, which it says is breaching the measures already in place, the UN's top court said on March 6. In its application, South Africa warned that Palestinians in Gaza were facing...

A Kashmiri journalist, who was released after spending more than five years in jail earlier this week, has been rearrested by police in another case under India’s stringent “anti-terror” law, according to his lawyer. Aasif Sultan was arrested on Thursday in a 2019 case regarding violence inside the...

The crime lord behind a six-day gang mutiny against Haiti’s prime minister, Ariel Henry, has claimed the Caribbean country could be plunged into civil war unless its temporarily exiled leader steps down. Over the last six days, gang fighters have released thousands of inmates from prisons stormed...

A draft amnesty law submitted by Senegal’s President Macky Sall to members of the National Assembly on March 4, 2024, opens the door to impunity for serious crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. On February 26, amid a political crisis caused by the postponement of presidential elections, and as a...