Colombian security forces Friday flooded into the southwestern municipality of Silvia following a violent territorial dispute between two Indigenous groups the day before that left at least seven people dead and more than 100 injured. 
  
The army said on social media that more than 500 soldiers, along with air support, would be deployed to the area to provide security for the communities and prevent the situation from escalating. 
  

The Philippine justice secretary has ordered law enforcement to apprehend a senator wanted by ⁠the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged crimes against humanity, a day after the country’s top court rejected his bid to block his arrest. 
  
Senator ⁠Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa, the former police chief and lead enforcer in the deadly so-called “war on drugs” during Rodrigo Duterte’s 2016-2022 presidency, would be tracked down and anyone helping him evade arrest would “face consequences”, Fredderick Vida said on Thursday. 
 

Israeli lawmakers have voted to advance a bill that would dissolve parliament and pave the way for early elections. 
  
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under mounting pressure from ultra-Orthodox parties, while his fractious right-wing coalition appears to be facing possible collapse. 
  

Venezuela will release 300 prisoners this week under the framework of an amnesty law aimed at freeing political detainees, national assembly chief Jorge Rodriguez said Tuesday, May 19. Under Washington's watchful eye, Venezuela's interim leader Delcy Rodriguez has embarked on a series of reforms following the US ouster of her predecessor Nicolas Maduro in January. 
 

A former Libyan prison boss was described as a "notorious torturer" known as the "Angel of Death" who raped, murdered, and abused detainees, the International Criminal Court (ICC) heard on Tuesday. 
  
The ICC was kicking off three days of hearings against Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, 47, suspected of 17 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes allegedly committed at Mitiga prison near Tripoli between February 2015 and early 2020. 
  

A United Nations expert spoke out on Tuesday, May 19, about the alleged "torture" of Palestinian prisoners and "potentially unlawful deaths" in Israeli prisons since October 2023. 
  
The comments come as Israel faces growing scrutiny over detention conditions following Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack inside Israel that sparked the Gaza war. 
  

The war in Ukraine, now well into its fifth year, “is becoming deadlier by the day”, a senior UN official warned in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday.  
 
“In the last week alone, we witnessed one of the largest aerial bombardments of Ukraine since the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion in February 2022,” said Director Kayoko Gotoh of the Political and Peacebuilding Affairs department.   
  

A car bomb explosion near a Syrian Defense Ministry building in Damascus has killed at least one soldier and wounded more than 20 people, authorities say. 
  
In a statement carried by state media on Tuesday, the ministry said members of an army unit had discovered an improvised explosive device planted near the site in the Bab Sharqi district of the capital. As they moved to defuse it, a car bomb exploded in the same area, it added, without offering more details. 
 

At least 22 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Lebanon in the past 24 hours, according to the country’s Health Ministry, despite a 45-day ceasefire extension. 
  
The total death toll since March 2 when the fighting resumed between Israel and Hezbollah has reached 3,042, the ministry said in a statement published on Tuesday, 24 hours after reporting 3,020 deaths. 
 
According to the country’s state-run National News Agency (NNA), at least six people have been killed since dawn.