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At least 20 people are missing following violent protests that have gripped cities across Indonesia over the past week, a human rights group has warned. Mass protests first erupted on 25 August, prompted by anger over the perks and benefits given to lawmakers, including a controversial housing...

The 15-year-old shooter of Colombian presidential candidate Miguel Uribe, who was attacked in June and died in August, has been sentenced to seven years in juvenile detention. The right-wing politician was shot in the head during a campaign event in Bogota by the teenager, who “must remain in a...

A woman in Thailand sentenced to a prison term of more than four decades on a charge of royal defamation was released on Wednesday by a royal pardon after serving just under one-fifth of her term, said a human rights organization. Thai Lawyers for Human Rights said 69-year-old Anchan Preelert was...

Bangladesh’s interim leader Muhammad Yunus has warned that his country can no longer provide additional support for the 1.5 million Rohingya refugees it shelters, calling on the international community to work on a roadmap for the voluntary return of the persecuted minority back to their homeland in...

Venezuelan opposition leaders and civil society groups said on Sunday that the government released 13 people jailed in a crackdown by the government of President Nicolás Maduro following last year’s disputed elections. Venezuelan authorities did not immediately confirm the releases, but opposition...

Sudan’s notorious paramilitary forces attacked a group of people on a road in the country’s troubled Darfur region on Sunday, killing at least 13, mostly women and children, a medical group said. The killings were the latest by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and came a day after the RSF...

A military prosecutor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is demanding the death penalty for former President Joseph Kabila who is on trial in absentia. General Lucien Rene Likulia, the Congolese military auditor general, called on judges to condemn Kabila to death for treason and war...

An “entirely man-made” famine is taking place in Gaza’s largest city and its surrounding area amid deteriorating conditions that threaten an exponential increase in deaths across the devastated territory, UN-backed experts have declared. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a...

Investigating judges in Paris ordered the dismissal of a case alleging the widow of Rwanda's former president played a role in the country's 1994 genocide, according to court documents seen by AFP. Agathe Habyarimana, 82, who has been living in France since 1998 and whose extradition has been...

At least 81 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israeli attacks and forced starvation since dawn as the Israeli military said it had begun the first stages of its planned assault to seize the enclave’s largest urban centre, Gaza City, where close to a million people remain in perilous...