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Ghana's parliament on February 21 moved a step closer to holding a vote on a bill that seeks to further clamp down on the rights of LGBT people, rejecting a proposal that would have seen jail terms for gay sex replaced with non-custodial sentences such as counselling. A coalition of Christian...

The top United Nations court said that it notes the “perilous” situation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, but has declined South Africa’s request for urgent measures to safeguard Palestinians being threatened by an Israeli ground assault there. “The Court notes that the most recent developments...

Greece has become the first Orthodox Christian country to legalise same-sex marriage despite opposition from the church and some politicians. It has also become the first country in southeastern Europe to have passed legislation legalizing same-sex marriage. The measure was passed by parliament late...

A senior bureaucrat in Pakistan has said he helped rig Pakistan’s elections, a week after polls marred by allegations of manipulation returned no clear winner. On February 17, Liaqat Ali Chattha, commissioner of the garrison city of Rawalpindi, where the country’s powerful military has its...

Venezuela has ordered the local office of the United Nations human rights body to suspend operations and given its staff 72 hours to leave, accusing it of promoting opposition to the South American country. The move came two days after the UN agency expressed “deep concern” over the detention of...

For decades, the Indigenous Yanomami have suffered at the hands of illegal gold miners, who destroyed vast stretches of their homeland and polluted their rivers with mercury. But since 2019, the crisis has reached new heights, with hundreds of Yanomami dying from conditions related to the mining...

The United States has proposed a rival draft United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war and opposing a major ground offensive by its ally Israel in Rafah, according to the text seen by Reuters. The move comes after the U.S. signalled it would...

Senegal’s President Macky Sall on February 15 pledged to organise presidential elections “as soon as possible” after the Constitutional Council overruled his decision to delay this month’s vote. The National Assembly’s decision on February 5 to reschedule the vote was “contrary to the constitution,”...

The United Nations mission in Libya has urged authorities to investigate the shooting deaths of 10 people in a Tripoli neighborhood, with city security chiefs saying the victims included two members of a powerful armed faction. The UN said in a statement released on social media that the authorities...

The civilian death toll from two Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon has risen to 10, in the deadliest attack in more than four months of cross-border exchanges. The Lebanese armed group Hezbollah has promised to retaliate for the February 15 strikes, which hit the city of Nabatieh and a village...