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Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America sent a letter Monday to the United Nations warning that organized crime—including illegal mining, drug trafficking, and logging—is driving violence and accelerating environmental destruction in rainforest communities. However, they...

Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the Houthi group have signed a United Nations-backed agreement in Jordan to exchange more than 1,600 detainees, marking the largest prisoner exchange since the country’s civil war began in September 2014. Under the accord, the Houthis will release...

Israel has drastically escalated its attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip in the five weeks since halting its joint bombing with the United States of Iran, redirecting its firepower to the devastated Palestinian enclave. Conflict monitor ACLED, which tracks Israeli attacks in Gaza, said in ⁠a report...

Two weeks of intense clashes in southern Sudan have killed over 61 people, including nine children, a local medical group said Wednesday, fighting that is part of the larger war that has gripped the African country since 2023. According to the Sudan Doctors Network, which monitors casualty tolls in...

Russia resumed strikes on Ukraine as a three-day truce expired on Tuesday, May 12, attacking the capital with drones and killing one person in the eastern region of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian authorities said. The Russian military, meanwhile, said it had shot down 27 Ukrainian drones after the...

The impact of armed conflict on civilians in Colombia over the past year has been the worst in a decade as the country’s security situation deteriorates, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday in an annual report. The humanitarian group said the number of people displaced as...

An Islamic State-affiliated group attacked villages in Congo near the border with Uganda, killing at least 40 people and burning and looting homes, a local civil society group said Friday. The attacks were carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) overnight from Wednesday through Thursday...

The United Nations has called for the immediate release of two Gaza-bound humanitarian aid flotilla activists abducted by Israeli authorities last week, calling for an investigation into the “disturbing accounts of severe mistreatment”. Israel must “immediately and unconditionally” release activists...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has come under attack from Iranian missiles and drones for the second day in a row, according to its Defense Ministry, while Iran denied being behind the aggression. According to the UAE, Tuesday’s attack came a day after at least three people were injured in strikes...

Russian attacks killed 21 people in cities across Ukraine on Tuesday, May 5, as President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Moscow's "utter cynicism" for launching deadly strikes while seeking a truce to stage its May 9 patriotic parade. The attacks—hitting the cities of Zaporizhzhia, Kramatorsk and...