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An Indian court has sent Delhi Chief Minister and key opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal to jail until April 15 in a corruption case, less than three weeks before the country begins voting in a seven-phase national election. Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) says he has been “falsely arrested” in a...

Peru's president replaced six ministers on April 1 after they abruptly resigned, amid a fresh political scandal involving luxury watches that targets her, adding more volatility to the South American nation's increasingly rocky politics. The slew of resignations, including the interior minister...

Democratic Republic of Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has appointed the country’s first-ever female prime minister, naming planning minister Judith Suminwa to the role. An economist, she takes over as prime minister from Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde, following Tshisekedi’s sweeping re-election as...

Members of a transitional presidential council who will be responsible for selecting a new prime minister issued their first official statement on March 27, pledging to restore “public and democratic order” in Haiti. The statement, although signed by eight members of what is supposed to be a nine...

Venezuela’s main opposition coalition said it has been blocked from registering its candidate to challenge President Nicolas Maduro in the upcoming elections on July 28. In a video statement on March 26, the Plataforma Unitaria Democratica explained it had been unable to formally register its...

Parents of more than 130 Nigerian schoolchildren who were rescued after more than two weeks in captivity said they saw them on March 27 and that they couldn’t hold back tears of joy during the long-awaited reunion. The meeting, three days after the children were freed, took place at a government...

A Houthi court sentenced 32 men, 9 of them to death, on January 23, 2024, in an unfair mass trial based on dubious charges of “sodomy,” Human Rights Watch said on March 27. The Houthis should end their use of the death penalty and other forms of cruel and degrading punishment and provide fair trials...

There are “reasonable grounds” to believe Israel is committing genocide in the besieged Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip, according to a report issued by a United Nations-appointed expert. In the report, issued late on March 25, the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories...

A prominent journalist in Belarus was designated a political prisoner on March 26 by the country’s leading human rights group following his conviction on charges widely seen as part of an ongoing crackdown on dissent. Ihar Karnei, who used to write for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and other news...

Thailand's parliament passed a same-sex marriage bill on March 27, paving the way for the kingdom to become the first Southeast Asian nation to recognise LGBTQ marriage equality. Across Asia only Taiwan and Nepal recognise same-sex marriage, with India's highest court deferring the decision to...