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The United Nations’ highest court has rejected Myanmar’s attempts to halt a case accusing it of genocide against the country’s Rohingya minority, paving the way for evidence of atrocities to be heard. The international court of justice rejected all preliminary objections raised by Myanmar, which is...

Amnesty International is calling for an investigation into the massacre of more than 400 Amhara civilians in Ethiopia's Oromia region in June 2022, citing eyewitnesses who blamed a local rebel group for the killings. The Amnesty statement follows a call by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights...

Lebanon plans to begin repatriating tens of thousands of Syrian refugees within months over objections by the United Nations and human rights groups, a minister has said. Lebanon has one of the world’s highest numbers of refugees per capita and currently hosts approximately 1.5 million Syrians who...

Tunisia’s main opposition leader, Rached Ghannouchi, was allowed to return home after a court hearing in a money-laundering investigation that his Ennahdha party rejects as a political ploy. The preliminary hearing before an investigative judge at a court in the capital, Tunis, lasted nearly 10...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has renewed warnings that Ankara could launch a new military operation in northern Syria, as he met his Russian and Iranian counterparts in Tehran. Erdogan, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi held a summit on Syria in the...

After returning to power last August, the Taliban imposed sweeping restrictions on women, including the types of jobs they could do. According to the International Labour Organization, the share of women in employment is expected to fall by 21 percent by mid-2022, Zahra – who is not using her real...

Sri Lankan lawmakers on Wednesday elected the unpopular prime minister as their new president, a choice that risked reigniting turmoil in the South Asian nation reeling from economic collapse and months of round-the-clock protests. The crisis has already forced out one leader, and a few hundred...

It’s been almost 100 years since Indigenous tribes in the north of Argentina were violently attacked. Hundreds were killed in the Napalpí Massacre, as it has come to be known. In a unique trial for the South American country, prosecutors now say that the state committed crimes against humanity. This...

A Gambian court has sentenced former intelligence chief Yankuba Badji and four other members of the intelligence service to death for the killing of a political activist Ebrima Solo Sandeng during the rule of former strongman Yahya Jammeh. The country has observed a moratorium on the death penalty...

U.S. President Joe Biden has claimed that his government is insisting on accountability for the May killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli army. “The United States will continue to insist on a full and transparent accounting of her death and will continue to stand up for...