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Miguel Uribe, the Colombian senator and presidential hopeful who was shot in the head at a campaign event in June, has died, his wife has confirmed. Uribe, an opposition candidate with the rightwing Centro Democrático party, was shot twice in the head and once in the leg during a campaign stop two...

Australia will recognize a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, joining the leaders of France, Britain, and Canada in signaling they would do so. His remarks followed weeks of urging from within his Cabinet and from many in Australia to recognize a Palestinian state and amid...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended a planned military offensive into Gaza City, saying Israel "has no choice but to finish the job and complete the defeat of Hamas." Speaking to foreign media in Jerusalem, Netanyahu asserted that Israel's goal was not to occupy Gaza, but to...

Chad’s criminal court sentenced Success Masra, the country’s former prime minister and opposition leader, to 20 years in prison after convictions on charges including incitement to hatred and revolt and complicity to murder. The charges stemmed from a deadly clash between herders and farmers in May...

Haiti’s government announced that it is implementing a three-month state of emergency in the country’s central region as gang violence surges. The measure will cover Haiti’s West, Artibonite, and Center departments “to continue the fight against insecurity and respond to the agricultural and food...

A Ugandan judge has refused to grant bail to veteran opposition figure Kizza Besigye, who has been in jail for nearly nine months on treason charges. Judge Emmanuel Baguma said that the 180-day maximum period before mandatory bail is granted only began when he was remanded in the civilian court on...

Thousands of Ivorians took to the streets in Abidjan, the capital of the West African nation, to protest against the exclusion of opposition leaders from the upcoming presidential election. Earlier this year, four main opposition figures, including former President Laurent Gbagbo and former Credit...

Nagasaki is marking the U.S. atomic attack on the southern Japanese city 80 years ago and survivors of the attack are working to make their hometown the last place on earth hit by the bomb. Despite their pain from wounds, discrimination, and illnesses from radiation, survivors have publicly...

More than 1,500 civilians may have been massacred during an attack on Sudan’s largest displacement camp in April, in what would be the second-biggest war crime of the country’s catastrophic conflict. A Guardian investigation into the 72-hour attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on...

Thailand and Cambodia agreed to establish interim observer teams to monitor a fragile ceasefire that ended five days of deadly armed border clashes, even as the fate of 18 Cambodian soldiers captured by Thailand remains unresolved. The first meeting of the General Border Committee concluded after...