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Venezuela’s opposition will contest regional elections on Sunday for the first time in nearly four years, but remains unconvinced President Nicolas Maduro will allow the vote to be free. The last legislative and presidential election was boycotted over a lack of free, fair and transparent polls...

Poland accused Belarus of trucking hundreds of migrants back to the border and pushing them to attempt to cross illegally even after main camps by the border were cleared. Belarus denies fomenting the crisis. Human rights groups say Poland has exacerbated the suffering by sending back those who try...

Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam, who served decades in prison for their alleged role in the assassination of Malcolm X are exonerated. The two men are having their convictions cleared 56 years after the fiery civil rights leader’s murder. The exonerations are expected to provide a measure of...

‘Watch Out, Sniper,’ a multimedia exhibition documenting the wartime siege of the Bosnian capital through photographs, archive material from the Hague tribunal, witness testimonies, and 3D modelling opens at the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo on Thursday November 18. Based...

Street confrontations have again shaken Sudan’s capital, a day after security forces shot dead 15 protesters in the bloodiest day since the military’s October 25 takeover. Top general Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan insists the military’s move “was not a coup” but a step to “rectify the course of the...

The recent killing of Basak Cengiz by a man wielding a samurai sword is one of hundreds of murders of women committed in Turkey every year. Women’s rights activists blame the government’s failure to prevent gender-based violence, pointing to the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, a 2011...

Based on a year-long inquiry into abuses by police forces and the killings at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos, a leaked judicial report has found that Nigeria’s army and police shot and killed unarmed anti-police brutality protesters in October last year, before cleaning up the scene to remove evidence...

The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has struck a limited immunity deal with former Davao City cop Arturo Lascanas in the investigation into the Philippine drug war and killings in President Rodrigo Duterte's home city. The OTP said it would not use as evidence against...

A 29-year-old activist and economics lecturer, Frozan Safi, has been shot and killed in northern Afghanistan, in what appears to be the first known death of a women's rights defender since the Taliban swept to power almost three months ago. The death underscores the pervasive sense of fear in...

A simmering months-long border crisis along the European Union's frontiers with Belarus has this week morphed into a serious geopolitical dispute and stoked fears of a humanitarian disaster. It is estimated that thousands are now gathered near the line that divides Belarus and Poland. Those trying...