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Indigenous organizations from across the Amazon and Latin America sent a letter Monday to the United Nations warning that organized crime—including illegal mining, drug trafficking, and logging—is driving violence and accelerating environmental destruction in rainforest communities. However, they...

Israeli legislators have approved a bill to establish a special tribunal with the power to impose the death penalty on Palestinians accused of involvement in the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023. Israeli and Palestinian rights groups warn that the bill will make the death penalty too easy to...

Russia resumed strikes on Ukraine as a three-day truce expired on Tuesday, May 12, attacking the capital with drones and killing one person in the eastern region of Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian authorities said. The Russian military, meanwhile, said it had shot down 27 Ukrainian drones after the...

A new wave of gang violence in Haiti’s capital forced hundreds to flee their homes over the weekend, leaving families scattered along the road to the country’s main airport on Monday. Gangs have overtaken more than 70% of Port-au-Prince since the assassination of President Jovenal Moïse in July 2021...

The impact of armed conflict on civilians in Colombia over the past year has been the worst in a decade as the country’s security situation deteriorates, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Tuesday in an annual report. The humanitarian group said the number of people displaced as...

Nigeria ‘s military Tuesday denied a rights group’s claim that an airstrike killed 100 civilians in a market over the weekend, as attention turned again to a long-running fight against armed groups in the country’s volatile north. Amnesty International in a statement Monday said a military airstrike...

Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon have killed at least four people and wounded eight others, according to Lebanese media. The state National News Agency (NNA) reported injuries to two medics as they rushed to offer aid to victims of the latest attacks by the Israeli military in violation of the...

An attack by armed rebels has killed at least 69 people in Ituri province in the conflict-torn northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to security officials. For more than 30 years, the mineral-rich eastern DRC has been a battleground for various armed groups, vying for...

An Islamic State-affiliated group attacked villages in Congo near the border with Uganda, killing at least 40 people and burning and looting homes, a local civil society group said Friday. The attacks were carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) overnight from Wednesday through Thursday...

The United States has imposed a host of new sanctions related to Cuba, amid a months-long pressure campaign against the island nation. The sanctions on Thursday were announced hours after United Nations experts decried Washington’s effective fuel blockade of the island as tantamount to “energy...