Amid prolonged delays in constituting a committee to nominate bearers for the transitional justice commissions, the CPN (Maoist Centre) has called for immediate action to this effect. 

Hong Kong’s top court overturned the convictions of three former organizers of an annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown over their refusal to provide information to police, marking a rare victory for the city’s pro-democracy activists. 

Turkish security forces have killed 26 Kurdish militants in the past week, the Turkish defense ministry said, even as the militants’ imprisoned leader called on his group to disband and his fighters declared a ceasefire. 

A defense ministry statement said the militants were killed in military operations in areas including the north of Iraq and Syria. It did not provide details on the circumstances of the clashes. 

South Sudanese forces have arrested the petroleum minister and several senior military officials allied with First Vice President Riek Machar as soldiers surrounded his home in the capital, Juba. 

Deputy army chief, General Gabriel Duop Lam, a Machar loyalist, was held earlier in the week, while Petroleum Minister Puot Kang Chol was arrested alongside his bodyguards and family. 

Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine, and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive trying to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable.  

The aid freeze has imperiled the progress aid workers say they have made to stave off famine over the past six weeks during Phase 1 of the ceasefire deal Israel and Hamas agreed to in January.  

Residents fled a border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan after forces from both sides clashed into the early hours of Tuesday, March 4.  

It was the second consecutive day of tit-for-tat gunfire at Torkham, a key crossing between the two countries that has been closed since February 21 because of a dispute between the two neighbors. 

The Pakistani official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the media, said that gunfire overnight Monday spread fear and panic among residents. 

Ukraine said its forces could hold their own on the battlefield as they fight Russian troops after U.S. President Donald Trump paused military aid to Kyiv. 

Trump has upended U.S. policy on Ukraine and Russia, culminating in an explosive confrontation at the White House on Friday, when Trump upbraided President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for being insufficiently grateful for Washington's backing. 

The United Arab Emirates’ Federal Supreme Court rejected appeals on behalf of dozens of dissidents convicted in a mass trial that faced widespread international criticism. 

Former Peruvian President Pedro Castillo went on trial charged with rebellion, grave abuse of authority, and perturbing public tranquility in a case that has polarized the South American nation. 

Germany has halted new development aid to Rwanda and is reviewing its existing commitments in response to the African nation's role in the conflict in neighboring Congo, the German development ministry said.