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UN experts on Wednesday called on Venezuela's government to stop holding opponents and activists incommunicado, saying the practice often amounted to "enforced disappearances".

This US citizen was shot by Israeli forces in April. There was no warning, no investigation but worst of all – no outcry from the west

Ko Min said he found his son and daughter's bodies in the ruins of a schoolhouse in central Myanmar, moments after a deadly air strike that witnesses said came as a military jet circled the village.

Israel kills prominent Palestinian journalist Hassan Aslih in separate airstrike on Nasser hospital

If both Putin and Zelenskyy sit down with each other, it would be a first in the 3-year-old war

The United Nations’ top humanitarian official blasted Israel for “deliberately and unashamedly” imposing inhumane conditions on Palestinians that include the risk of famine

United Nations relief chief Tom Fletcher on Tuesday called on the UN Security Council to take action "to prevent genocide" in Gaza, delivering a scathing account of Israel's actions in the Palestinian territory.

Palestinian rights organisation Al-Haq has launched high court action over carve-out of F-35 fighter jet programme

Mali's military government on Tuesday dissolved the west African country's political parties, according to a presidency decree, the latest attempt to clamp down on the opposition since the junta seized power.

After clashes kill six in Tripoli, PM Abdul Hamid Dbeibah says a military operation restored calm in the capital.

Human rights organisations have expressed alarm at possible US plans to send a group of migrants from Vietnam, Laos and the Philippines to Libya on a military flight. They have pointed to the appalling conditions migrants face there, which the US State Department described as “harsh and life-threatening” in its…