Susan Sarandon, Hannah Einbinder among more than 100 detained during anti-Netanyahu protest outside UN
September 25, 2026Poland stopped registering asylum applications from migrants entering from Belarus in March 2025, calling it a temporary emergency measure
September 25, 2026Trump urges Supreme Court to restart deportations to countries with poor human rights records
September 25, 2026The Committee to Protect Journalists says that 19 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire who it had previously identified as journalists or media workers were actually militants or participants in combat
September 24, 2026What we know after officials say ICE detained a US citizen and left him injured in Chicago suburb
September 24, 2026Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pardoned 15 prisoners in a decree on Thursday that follows talks last week with an envoy for US President Donald Trump.
September 24, 2026Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have intensified deadly drone attacks in government-held towns in the frontline state of North
September 24, 2026Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington is getting a much chillier reception on Capitol Hill than at the White House
September 24, 2026President Donald Trump is expected to press Chinese leader Xi Jinping to free two US citizens held by China,
September 24, 2026Officials in Gaza say plans to evacuate people from war-damaged buildings after the deadly collapse of an
September 23, 2026The easy part for Fariba Hashimi was winning a silver medal in the women’s cycling road race at the Asian Games
September 23, 2026More than 160 civil society organisations released a joint statement on Wednesday urging Malaysia to halt plans to deport Rohingya refugees to Myanmar, citing severe risks of
September 23, 2026The wife of a US expert on North Korean nuclear tests who has been imprisoned in China since late 2024 said on Tuesday the White House has assured
September 23, 2026Taiwan and human rights are "red lines" for China that cannot be crossed, the country's ambassador to the US warned on Wednesday, striking
September 23, 2026More than 3,000 houses stand in neat rows across Rong Cham, a 400-hectare (990-acre) resettlement site dubbed by residents "the Waiting Village
September 23, 2026A federal judge has ordered Texas to install air conditioning in all of its prisons by the end of 2029, saying that inmates in lockups without it are being given punishments that violate their constitutional rights
September 23, 2026The attorney for a Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas says he's back in an ICE detention center after being taken to a hospital for a second time
September 23, 2026Spain clears way for US extradition case against millionaire activist
September 23, 2026Nigerian prison guards sprayed an unidentified substance into a crowded cell where dozens of detainees died and kept the doors
September 22, 2026Residents of Nigeria's north-central Niger protested on Monday over the abduction of hundreds of people who they said remained in captivity a month after
September 22, 2026A U.N. report says the Nicaraguan government is responsible for at least eight deaths in custody since 2018
September 22, 2026The European Union has no reason to ease sanctions on Belarus, Lithuania's foreign minister said on Monday, arguing that President Alexander
September 22, 2026U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers and relatives to find them
September 21, 2026The Netherlands is making preparations for the United States to sanction the International Criminal Court, in the last escalation of the Trump Administration’s attacks on the global tribunal
September 21, 2026Ruling pro-Putin party set to win Russia’s tightly controlled wartime parliamentary election
September 21, 2026An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, city officials said, adding that the man was in
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September 21, 2026Iran's most prominent human rights activist says Iranians are suffering seven months into the war and paying the price for the conflict
September 19, 2026The father of a Spanish exchange student killed in Mexico arrived in the Mexican state of Morelos on Friday to identify his daughter's body, a day after authorities
September 19, 2026Russian forces committed widespread sexual violence against civilians and prisoners of war in Ukraine, including gang rape and electric shocks to the
September 18, 2026A US federal appeals court rejected on Friday a policy adopted by the Trump administration that allows authorities to rapidly deport migrants to countries
September 19, 2026Authorities imposed an overnight curfew in Nigeria's central city of Minna on Friday after security forces opened fire as hundreds of people took to the streets to
September 18, 2026US officials make rare trip to Myanmar to free former marine as isolated regime seeks greater recognition
September 18, 2026The British government's refusal to confirm whether it has issued an order to bypass encryption to access customer data held by Apple has become farcical,
September 17, 2026A UN fact-finding mission on Iran said on Thursday it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States
September 17, 2026Ireland is set to boycott the Eurovision Song Contest for a second year due to Israel’s participation
September 17, 2026Ed Sheeran stadium drama turns to donations and humanitarian cooperation
September 17, 2026Min Zin, a U.S. scholar of Myanmar politics, has been detained in China for over three months
September 16, 2026A large crowd marched through Malta's capital on Wednesday, demanding justice for assassinated anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.
September 17, 2026A local official and activists say that a gold mine collapse in Sudan has killed at least 82 people
September 16, 2026Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Wednesday he would invite Myanmar's junta chief-turned-President Min Aung Hlaing for an official visit in return for
September 16, 2026Former President George W. Bush has a new book of oil paintings coming out in March
September 16, 2026Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared in public on Wednesday for the first time since being transferred to the
September 16, 2026Former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte appeared in public for the first time on Wednesday since being transferred to the International Criminal
September 16, 2026At least 124 land and environmental defenders were killed worldwide in 2025, with Latin America accounting for 85% of the deaths
September 16, 2026Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday the U.S. was announcing a new visa restriction policy targeting some foreign
September 16, 2026A new report by the Amazon Environmental Research Institute has found that gold mining poses a significant threat to Indigenous lands in the Brazilian Amazon
September 16, 2026Belarusian state institutions have worked together to repress critics of President Alexander Lukashenko's government through every stage of the
September 15, 2026U.S. presidential envoy John Coale met Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday for their first talks in six months, as Washington pushes for the
September 15, 2026Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has met with a U.S. envoy to push for the lifting of the remaining U.S. sanctions against his country
September 15, 2026Police have detained dozens of demonstrators outside a courthouse in Istanbul
September 15, 2026The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to briefly extend the current arms embargo on Sudan’s western Darfur region while negotiations continue on a contentious U.S. proposal to expand the embargo throughout the country
September 12, 2026A Hong Kong court has sentenced three activists who for years organized vigils in remembrance of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown to prison terms of about five to seven years
September 11, 2026Emma Bonino, a prominent Italian politician known for her work with the Radical Party, has died at 78
September 11, 2026Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor are premiering their documentary “NAZA” at the Venice Film Festival Thursday
September 10, 2026Yemen's Houthi rebels have taken the strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha, bringing them closer to controlling key shipping routes
September 10, 2026Suburban teen's family self-deports to Colombia nearly year after father's detention during Midway Blitz
September 08, 2026U.N. rights chief Volker Turk warned on Monday that artificial intelligence could pose a threat to humanity, and pledged to press AI firms to reduce risks that
September 07, 2026Jamaica is pushing for Britain to pay reparations for the trans-Atlantic slave trade
September 07, 2026It’s been more than a week since deadly flash floods killed hundreds and left thousands missing along the China-Nepal border
September 04, 2026The European Union’s Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos has canceled a visit to Serbia due to what she called the “glorification” of Ratko Mladic after his death
September 04, 2026Indonesia's top human rights body urged the police on Friday to investigate several new outbreaks of food poisoning linked to President Prabowo Subianto's
September 04, 2026The current and former presidents of the International Criminal Court's governing body said efforts to isolate the institution diplomatically are aimed
September 04, 2026Roselly Gil watched as authorities carefully removed the blackened bones from the rotting wooden coffin, stored for decades in a cemetery in
September 03, 2026Nearly a century after the Nazis shut down Germany's world-famous Bauhaus school of design, the art movement has once again become a cultural battleground
September 03, 2026Two Palestinian teenagers were killed on Wednesday in an attack by Israeli settler militants and army troops on their village in the occupied West Bank, local officials and the
September 03, 2026Residents of Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta took to the streets on Wednesday to protest the handling by Madrid of a
September 02, 2026The U.S. urges international partners to immediately stop "business as usual" operations with Nicaragua's government, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement
September 02, 2026The Chinese government is pressing for answers after a Chinese man died hours after being taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on a U.S. territory
September 02, 2026Joshua Wong has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that has effectively stifled Hong Kong’s once-thriving pro-democracy movement
September 02, 2026Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong faces longer prison sentence after second national security guilty plea
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