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Myanmar resistance leaders and international human rights groups are welcoming a new round of U.S. sanctions aimed at that country’s oil and gas sector, a major source of revenue for the ruling junta that seized power in February 2021. Additional sanctions announced simultaneously by the United...

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has strengthened his calls for a ceasefire as Palestinian authorities reported that more than 10,000 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza. The secretary-general told reporters on Monday that Gaza was becoming a “graveyard for children,” with...

Germany's foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, was in Armenia to discuss tensions in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan took control of in September. She advocated launching a new round of negotiations. The German Foreign Minister traveled to the southern Caucasus on Friday, beginning her...

Germany’s president on November 1 apologized for killings under colonial rule in Tanzania more than a century ago as he met descendants of an executed leader of a revolt against German rule, and vowed to seek answers to questions about that era that leave Tanzanians no peace. President Frank-Walter...

The territorial dispute between Ethiopia's northern Amhara and Tigray regions will be settled through a referendum, the government says. The row has threatened to disrupt the fragile peace following the end of the civil war in Tigray a year ago. Tigray controlled the fertile lands before Amhara...

Venezuela on Tuesday objected to a decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to resume an investigation into alleged human rights abuses that could constitute crimes against humanity by Venezuelan officials. In a June ruling, the ICC said that Venezuela's own investigations were not enough...

New research—from Security Force Monitor, a project of the Columbia Law Human Rights Institute in the United States—linking alleged violations to soldiers and commanders suggests actions are institutionalized. The study, Under Whose Command?, covers a period of 12 years until March 30, 2023 and...

United Nations experts called on Thursday for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, saying time was running out for Palestinian people there who find themselves at "grave risk of genocide." Nearly four weeks of Israeli bombardment against the Gaza Strip in retaliation for attacks by Hamas gunmen in...

Gazan authorities say 15 people have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the Bureij refugee camp, marking the third bombing of a camp in as many days. A spokesperson for Gaza Civil Defense said the strike on Thursday in central Gaza hit a residential building, and residents reported scores of...

Russia bombards 100 settlements within 24 hours as top Ukrainian commander warns war has become deadlocked. Russia has carried out its biggest artillery attack so far this year, Ukraine has said, as Kyiv’s top general admitted the war had reached a deadlock, with little prospect that his troops...