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Pakistan said it carried out airstrikes early Thursday on 10 sites in Afghanistan— it said were used to launch drone attacks against Pakistan a day earlier—a sharp escalation in fighting between the two countries that threatens international mediation efforts. The airstrikes struck the southern and...

A 105-year-old man is under investigation on suspicion of being an accessory to multiple murders at a Nazi prisoner of war camp, German prosecutors have said. The case, which is being handled by the public prosecutor’s office in Dortmund, centers on the Stalag 326 VI K camp in western Germany, in...

Russian attacks across Ukraine have killed at least eight people as the United States steps up diplomatic efforts to de-escalate the war. Six people were killed and eight wounded on Thursday in a Russian attack on a farm in northern Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said on Telegram...

There are growing fears of a return to civil war in Ethiopia after an offensive by rebels from Tigray into the neighboring states of Afar and Amhara, and the formation of a new rebel coalition aimed at overthrowing the government of the prime minister, Abiy Ahmed. Fighting from 2020 to 2022 between...

Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted rebel commander Mahamat Said Abdel Kani on Wednesday of crimes against humanity for abusing and torturing prisoners at a detention facility in the Central African Republic. Said, wearing blue jeans and a sweater, remained expressionless for...

Women political prisoners in Myanmar have faced torture, sexual violence, unsanitary conditions, and life-threatening denials of medical care, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Wednesday, calling for their immediate release. Myanmar suffers a civil war, affecting most of the country, following the...

Hundreds of people have fled their homes after an armed group killed 15 people in the village of Madegoua near the town of Makary in the Far North region of Cameroon. The attack on Wednesday triggered a wave of displacement from 10 nearby villages. Several hundred people fled towards Kousseri and...

A former Rwandan official has appeared in a court in the United Kingdom after being charged with ordering six killings during the first week of the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Vincent Brown, a 65-year-old doctor formerly known as Vincent Bajinya, is the first ⁠person to be charged in Britain over the...

The Nicaraguan government is responsible for at least eight deaths in custody since it began its crackdown on dissent and assault of democratic institutions in 2018, U.N. experts said Tuesday. The report from the U.N. Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua was the latest condemnation of the...

A Sri Lankan court found 15 men guilty on Tuesday of involvement in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, which killed more than 260 people and wounded about 500. The April 21 attacks targeted three churches and three hotels across the island nation during Easter services and celebrations. The Islamic...