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South Africa on Tuesday marks the 50th anniversary of the Soweto uprising when over 200 young people protesting against the apartheid education system were shot and killed by the police. The events of June 16, 1976 — now commemorated annually as Youth Day — are considered a turning point in South...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue Israel’s occupations of Lebanese and Syrian territory, despite the announcement of a ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran that links to those hostilities. Netanyahu told a press conference on Monday that Israel’s forces will...

A Dutch court has sentenced a Syrian man to 26 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed during his time working for the regime of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The court in The Hague handed down the sentence to Rafik A on Monday, having found that he tortured and raped...

The Pristina Basic Court has placed five former members of the Serbian police force into 30-day custody, it announced on Monday. The men are suspected of involvement in the January 15, 1999 massacre in Recak/Racak, which was the catalyst for the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia two months later. The five...

Pakistan has renewed deadly air strikes on neighboring Afghanistan, officials in both countries said Wednesday, in the worst violence in weeks following a period of relative calm. Pakistan's government said on Wednesday that 26 "militants" linked to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan group were killed...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran is putting millions of people at risk of hunger. In an analysis, the WFP said the continuation of the conflict’s effect on oil prices has “profound implications” for global food...

Israel’s Supreme Court has unanimously rejected a government policy banning representatives of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from visiting Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. The court ruled that by preventing the Red Cross from visiting prisoners, the government had...

A far-right lawyer and Donald Trump admirer will go head-to-head against leftwing senator Iván Cepeda in the race to be Colombia’s next president after he won a surprise victory in the first round of voting. De la Espriella advocates ending Petro’s “total peace” policy of negotiating the dismantling...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, May 28, that he had ordered the country's military to take control of 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, in defiance of the terms of a fragile ceasefire that took effect in October. "We are currently squeezing Hamas. We now control 60 percent of...

At least 19 people have been killed and 58 wounded in Israeli attacks in Lebanon, according to Lebanese health authorities, as Israel intensifies its assault in the south and issues mass displacement orders across the region. Lebanon’s health ministry said on Thursday that an Israeli air strike...