Media Coverage

Reporters Without Borders said on April 10 that one of its representatives was denied entry into Hong Kong, calling it a “new decline” in the city’s press freedoms. According to the group, its Taipei-based staffer Aleksandra Bielakowska was stopped at the Hong Kong airport by immigration officers...

Colombia’s ex-president Álvaro Uribe will face trial for witness tampering and fraud, prosecutors have announced, once again casting the spotlight on allegations that the former leader partnered with paramilitary death squads in his war against leftist rebels. Uribe has long been accused of...

Mali's junta has issued a decree halting political party activities, government spokesperson Abdoulaye Maiga announced in a statement read on state television on the evening of April 10. The decree suspends until further notice all activities by political parties and "associations of a political...

The United Nations Security Council president has referred the Palestinian Authority’s (PA’s) application for Palestine to become a full member of the world body to its membership committee. The 15-member committee is expected to make a decision about Palestine’s status this month, said Vanessa...

Spain's Supreme Court has summoned Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont to testify remotely in June over his links to a group accused of breaching terrorism law over protests following the region's failed 2017 bid for independence. The investigating magistrate set tentative dates for the...

Myanmar’s escalating conflict and worst violence since the military takeover in 2021 are having a devastating impact on human rights, fundamental freedoms, and the basic needs of millions of people—as well as “alarming spillover effects” in the region, UN officials said on April 4. Assistant...

The case at the International Court of Justice is against Germany, which is the second-largest supplier of arms to Israel after the US, but it also indirectly takes aim at Israel’s six-month-old military campaign, which has left tens of thousands of Palestinians dead and devastated Gaza. Nicaragua’s...

Latin American governments, including regional heavyweight Brazil, rallied around Mexico on April 6 after its embassy in Ecuador was raided to arrest a controversial politician who had been granted asylum by Mexican authorities. The late April 5 seizure of Jorge Glas, Ecuador's former vice president...

Rwandans are marking 30 years since a genocide orchestrated by armed Hutu tore apart their country, as neighbors turned on each other in one of the bloodiest massacres of the 20th century. President Paul Kagame led the commemoration on April 7 by placing wreaths on the mass graves in the capital...

More than 600 British jurists, including three retired judges from the UK Supreme Court, are calling on the government to suspend arms sales to Israel, piling pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak after the deaths of three UK aid workers in an Israeli strike. Britain is just one of a number of...