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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...

The trial of a former Iranian prison official, Hamid Noury, accused of handing out death sentences as part of a 1988 purge of dissidents, moved to Albania on Wednesday, with a witness recalling "shocking scenes." Noury has been on trial at the district court in the Swedish capital Stockholm since...

The United Nations has said 16 of its Ethiopian staff have been detained in the country's capital, Addis Ababa, with six others having been released. UN spokesperson Stephanie Dujarric said, "There has been, as far as I know, no explanation given to us on why these staff members are detained."...

The prison hospital treating Georgia's hunger-striking former president Mikheil Saakashbili lacks proper medical equipment and fellow inmates there have threatened and abused him, according to a Georgian human rights official. Public Defender Nino Lomjaria, Georgia's rights ombudsman said,...

The International Criminal Court is opening a formal investigation into allegations of torture and extrajudicial killings committed by Venezuelan security forces under President Nicolas Maduro's rule, the first time a country in Latin America is facing scrutiny for possible crimes against humanity...

Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni has signed off on legislation which will enable the United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge tribunal, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, to wind down and finalize its mission within the next three years. The tribunal was charged with prosecuting those...

The Biden administration has blacklisted Israeli firm NSO Group, accusing the technology company of developing and supplying spyware to foreign governments "that used these tools to maliciously" target a range of actors, including journalists and activists. Danna Ingleton, deputy director of Amnesty...

At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when Islamic State gunmen attacked Afghanistan's biggest military hospital, Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan, in central Kabul following two heavy explosions. The blasts add to a growing list of attacks and killings since the Taliban completed their...

Five women are seeking reparations and suing the Belgian state for crimes against humanity for the segregationist policy that stripped them from their mothers—one that endured from the end of the 19th century to Congo's independence in 1960 and even after. As mixed-race children born under colonial...

A joint investigation into alleged atrocities in Ethiopia found all sides committed grave abuses that may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes in the yearlong war in the Tigray region. The report, a collaboration of the United Nations human rights office and the government-created...