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Book The Crown’s Silence details how crown profited from and protected trade in enslaved African people for centuries

The tradition stretches back to ancient Greece

A man charged in connection with the 2021 disappearance of a Navajo woman has pleaded guilty to robbery, marking the latest turn in a case that been emblematic of the epidemic of killings and disappearances in Native American communities

The U.N. Security Council has criticized Haitian authorities for the lack of progress in achieving a political transition and called for urgent security sector reforms to tackle increasing violence by gangs and criminal groups

An estimated 4.8 million people remain internally displaced across Yemen, the WFP says, in what the UN says is one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

When Nazi Germany began its occupation of Denmark in April 1940, Greenland suddenly found itself cut off from its colonial power and thrust into the centre of North Atlantic wartime strategy. The US took control of Greenland temporarily, establishing bases and defence perimeters there to prevent Germany from using the…

Images of rubber dinghies overcrowded with refugees heading for Europe and narratives about mistreatment and exploitation of migrants on unsafe migration routes have come to dominate how African migration is perceived in European public and policy debates.

US President Trump is escalating pressure on Iran with a significant naval deployment and threats of severe retaliation for any attacks. He's considering targeted strikes, even on top leadership, aiming for a regime change similar to Venezuela. Iran warns of a powerful response, while regional allies express deep concern over…

Brazilian courts have found that the Belo Monte hydropower plant in the Amazon failed to meet environmental and social requirements

INTERVIEW: The former foreign secretary and head of the International Rescue Committee NGO, tells Nick Ferris that aid cuts must be reversed if the world’s most fragile countries are to have a chance at adapting to the climate crisis

After relatively little in the news about the massacre of civilians inside Iran this month, the world is finally beginning to catch up on the horrors unfolding. Protests against the economic situation quickly turned to calls to bring down the government and grew to 186 towns and cities across Iran.…