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A Russian air attack has killed two people in Kyiv region’s Bilohorodska community, and a drone attack killed another person in central Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, according to local authorities. The deadly attacks came overnight on Wednesday, just hours after a deadly drone attack on a...

Authorities in Venezuela have freed more than 100 people listed as political prisoners, according to a rights group, including a lawyer who was imprisoned in 2024 after visiting clients at a detention facility. The Caracas-based Foro Penal said at least 104 prisoners were released on Sunday and that...

The Iranian state has rejected a resolution by the United Nations’ Human Rights Council that strongly condemned the “violent crackdown on peaceful protests” by security forces that left thousands dead. After a detailed meeting and discussions in Geneva on Friday, 25 members of the council, including...

Israel said it attacked four crossing points on the Syria-Lebanon border, saying they were used by Hezbollah to smuggle weapons, following earlier attacks on southern Lebanon that killed at least two people and injured almost 20. This latest violence on Wednesday comes despite a U.S.-brokered...

A bombing targeting a convoy of a group allied with Yemen’s Saudi-backed government has killed five people and wounded three others, Yemeni authorities have said. The attack on Wednesday targeted a convoy carrying Hamdi Shukri, a commander in the pro-government Giants Brigades, Yemen’s Presidential...

At least 11 Palestinians, including two children and three journalists, have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since dawn, with six others injured, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. Munir al-Bursh, director-general of the ministry, told Al Jazeera that the photojournalists killed when...

Iranian state television has released the first official death toll from the recent antigovernment protests that engulfed the country, reporting that 3,117 people were killed during the crackdown. In a statement carried by Press TV on Wednesday, Iran’s Martyrs Foundation said that 2,427 of those...

Israel has begun bulldozing buildings inside the headquarters of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in occupied East Jerusalem, as the far-right government clamps down heavily on humanitarian groups that provide desperately needed aid to Palestinians in Gaza. UNRWA said in a...

Gunmen attacked a village in western Niger over the weekend, leaving at least 31 people dead, student organizations and a resident said Tuesday. The attack took place Sunday in the commune of Gorouol in the Tillabéri region, according to a joint statement from the Union of Students Originating from...

The trial is due to start Tuesday for five men over the killing of an Indigenous Amazon leader, in a rare legal case that prosecutors and advocates say could test whether Peru can hold perpetrators accountable for violence linked to illegal logging and drug trafficking in one of the world’s most...