The committee formed to nominate office bearers to the two transitional justice commissions has received 110 applications from former judges, diplomats, professors, government secretaries, human rights activists, and conflict victims. 

Of them, 80 have applied individually while 16 organizations recommended the names of 30 others. “We have received applications from very competent and reputed personalities,” Lily Thapa, spokesperson for the recommendation committee, told the Post. “Their names will be published Monday.” 

The Israeli military has released details of an investigation into its own killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics and aid workers in Gaza last month, saying its code of ethics was not violated and only one soldier is dismissed, in an attack that sparked outrage in the international community. 

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the Israeli rights organization Breaking the Silence rejected the findings of the Israeli probe. 

PRCS’s president told Al-Araby TV that the Israeli narrative on the killings in Rafah was “contradictory”. 

Ukraine said it would reciprocate any genuine ceasefire by Moscow, but voiced skepticism after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a temporary Easter truce in Ukraine starting Saturday, April 19. 

The security situation in Haiti is in “free fall”, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned, as armed groups continue to unleash deadly violence in the capital and other areas across the Caribbean nation. 

In a statement, HRW said criminal gangs have escalated their attacks in Port-au-Prince since late last year, and only 10 percent of the city remains under government control. 

Russia’s Supreme Court lifted a ban on Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, a group that was designated as a terrorist organization more than two decades ago. 

The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as U.S. and NATO troops were in the final weeks of withdrawing from the country after two decades of war. 

The head of Myanmar’s military government granted amnesty to nearly 4,900 prisoners to mark the country’s traditional new year, state-run media reported, and an independent watchdog said they included at least 22 political detainees. 

At least 19 buses with prisoners aboard left Yangon’s Insein prison and were welcomed outside the gate by excited family members and friends who had been waiting since early morning. 

Foreign ministry officials from Bangladesh’s interim government and Pakistan resumed talks on Thursday after a 15-year gap, as the two South Asian Muslim-majority nations attempted to ease strained relations. 

Under former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted in August in a students-led mass uprising, Bangladesh expanded relations with neighboring India in every sector. 

Aid groups are raising new alarm over Israel’s blockade of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where it has barred entry of all food and other goods for more than six weeks. Thousands of children have become malnourished, and most people are barely eating one meal a day as stocks dwindle, the United Nations says. 

The U.S. will withdraw about 600 troops from Syria, leaving fewer than 1,000 to work with Kurdish allies to counter the Islamic State group, a U.S. official said. 

The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details not yet announced publicly. 

The U.S. troops have been critical not only in the operations against the Islamic State but as a buffer for the Kurdish forces against Turkey, which considers them to be aligned with terror groups.