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Voting is underway in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao in the southern Philippines in the first parliamentary elections since the region was established in 2019. Monday’s historic vote is seen as a crucial step towards self-governance after decades of rebellion and violence in the...

Sudan has been embroiled in a brutal civil conflict since 2023 between rival militaries and their backers. Some 8.6 million people remain internally displaced, and 19.5 million people currently face crisis levels of food insecurity, which has been compounded by maritime disruptions and drought...

On any given week, Palestinians across the occupied West Bank can experience dozens of what appear to be isolated acts of Israeli violence and suppression. In early September, Israeli forces killed two teenagers during a military raid in al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah. Days later in Masafer Yatta...

Russian strikes killed eight civilians and wounded dozens of other people in Ukraine, local officials said Saturday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that sending European troops into Ukraine would amount to direct conflict with Russia. Ukraine is under mounting pressure from Russia’s...

Syria is advancing efforts on justice and accountability while strengthening cooperation with the International Commission of Inquiry and international organizations, Syria’s representative to the UN Human Rights Council Yasser al-Farhan said. Addressing a Human Rights Council meeting, Al-Farhan...

UK Accuses Israeli ‘Terrorists’ of Ethnic Cleansing in West Bank with Government Backing Settler terrorists supported by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government are committing ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, Ed Miliband has said, in the UK’s starkest condemnation since the foundation of the Israeli state...

Nicaragua has urged the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to allow its case against Germany to continue, saying its arms exports to Israel violate the 1948 Genocide Convention and humanitarian law, as they were used in the genocidal war on Gaza. The appeal came on Tuesday as public hearings on...

An additional three dozen health facilities serving more than 400,000 people in Sudan are closing this year due to global aid cuts, worsening a dire humanitarian situation in a country torn by more than three years of war, aid groups said Tuesday. The cuts come to a health care system that once...

A ceasefire agreement with the jihadist group Boko Haram has been in effect for the past three months and is expected to be extended, but has not been previously reported publicly. The agreement is linked to hostage negotiations that secured the release in June of 360 civilians abducted by the group...

Russia Pounds Kyiv for More Rhan 12 hours, Killing at Least a Dozen in 6th Straight Day of Attacks Russia bombarded the Ukrainian capital for more than 12 hours overnight and into Tuesday, killing at least a dozen people in another aerial onslaught that authorities said was aimed at menacing...