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Israel carried out a rare strike on Beirut on July 31, which it said killed a top Hezbollah commander who was allegedly behind a weekend rocket attack that killed 12 young people in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights. The strike in the Lebanese capital killed at least one woman and two children...

Britain’s new government said on July 26 it was dropping its predecessor’s query of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) jurisdiction to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The ICC’s chief prosecutor has requested warrants for Netanyahu and his defense minister...

The Organization of American States' (OAS) election observation department said on July 30 it cannot recognize the results by Venezuela's national electoral council declaring President Nicolas Maduro the winner of the recent disputed vote. The 35-member regional body, which is to meet about...

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has said it is ready to participate after the United States invited the warring sides in Sudan to mediated ceasefire talks. RSF leader Mohammed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo said July 24 that the paramilitary group will participate. The U.S. invited the RSF and...

Keir Starmer has pledged to repeal the controversial Legacy Act, which offered immunity to Troubles-era crimes in Northern Ireland, and discussed replacement legislation with the Irish prime minister during a wide-ranging discussion on July 17. In December the Irish government began a legal...

The top United Nations court said on July 19 that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and called on it to end, and for settlement construction to stop immediately, issuing an unprecedented, sweeping condemnation of Israel’s rule over the lands it captured 57 years...

A citizens’ tribunal has issued a symbolic arrest warrant for Chinese President Xi Jinping after issuing a nonbinding verdict that he committed crimes of aggression against Taiwan, crimes against humanity in Tibet, and genocide against Uyghurs in Xinjiang. The Court of the Citizens of the World — a...

Leading opposition parties in Tunisia asserted on July 17 that politically motivated arrests and gag orders are creating impossible conditions for holding democratic elections later this year. Members of the National Salvation Front, a coalition of secular and Islamist opponents to President Kais...

Police in Bangladesh fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse students protesting against the government's job quota system on July 17, a day after violent clashes left six people dead and scores injured. Authorities also announced the indefinite closure of all public and private universities...

Ahead of presidential and legislative elections in Rwanda, tense relations with Rwanda’s bigger neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), remain a deepening challenge for both countries and the broader region, say analysts. Escalating tensions between the two, intensified by a United...