Media Coverage

Chile’s political parties from the left to the right have agreed to try again to replace the constitution imposed by Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship four decades ago. The accord was announced in the former Congress building, the same place where Chile’s entire political firmament —...

Violence in South Sudan's Upper Nile state has killed 166 civilians and displaced more than 20,000 since August amid an escalation in clashes between armed groups, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Wednesday. Violence is rife in parts of South Sudan where clashes...

More than 25,000 people could face starvation in conflict-plagued parts of West Africa next year, a United Nations official warned Friday. Federico Doehnert of the World Food Program said violence and the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine are largely driving the threat...

A Lebanese judge indicted five state security members on charges of torture in the case of a Syrian refugee who died in custody. On September 2, the military prosecutor arrested a state security officer and four other members on torture charges before referring them to Najat Abu Chakra, a military...

According to a senior European Union diplomat speaking on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans summit on Tuesday, the EU has drafted a new proposal for normalization of ties between Kosovo and Serbia with a clear timeline of actions. The draft proposal was sent to both parties on Monday, the...

Indonesia has revised its criminal code, and human rights groups have identified 17 articles which they believe threaten the freedoms won since the return to democratic rule in the 1990s. Though, the new laws will not take effect for three years and can be challenged in a constitutional court. Among...

The Taliban authorities on Wednesday executed an Afghan convicted of killing another man, in the first public execution since the terrorist group took over last year. The execution took place in western Farah province before hundreds of spectators and many top Taliban officials. The top Taliban...

Sudanese security forces used tear gas and blocked roads and bridges on Thursday as they sought to contain scattered protests in the capital, a Reuters reporter said, three days after an initial deal was signed to launch a new political transition. Thousands of protesters gathered in the afternoon...

Some Western media outlets are facing backlash from Iranian activists over headlines printed Sunday saying that Iran was abolishing its “morality police.” The news—an interpretation of a comment by an Iranian official during a press conference—turned out to be anything but clear cut. The country’s...

Armenia and Hungary have agreed to restore diplomatic relations on December 1 following a 10-year break resulting from Budapest’s controversial extradition to Azerbaijan of a murderer of an Armenian soldier. In February, a Hungarian delegation visited Armenia and announced a cooperation program with...