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Étienne Davignon, former European Commission vice president and veteran Belgian diplomat accused of involvement in the 1961 detention and mistreatment of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba, has died at the age of 93, Belgian media reported Monday. Davignon was ordered by a Brussels court in March to...

The number of executions worldwide reached its highest level in more than four decades in 2025, driven largely by a sharp increase in Iran, Amnesty International said. At least 2,707 people are known to have been put to death, according to the rights group's annual review. That marks a 78% jump from...

Hungary and Ukraine will begin consultations on the rights of Ukraine’s ethnic Hungarian minority, the countries’ foreign ministers said Monday, an early sign that strained relations between Budapest and Kyiv could improve under Hungary’s new government. Bilateral ties between the neighboring...

The Philippine Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, has opened the trial of Vice President Sara Duterte amid political turmoil and deep division. The trial that opened on Monday came just days after chaos and a shootout in the upper house and a decisive change in its leadership, both stemming...

Félicien Kabuga, accused of bankrolling the Rwandan genocide, died on Thursday in a hospital in The Hague while in custody, a UN court said. Kabuga, whose exact birthday is not known but was over 90, was suffering from dementia and has been stranded in legal limbo since 2023 when judges ruled that...

The death toll from a Russian missile attack that flattened a Kyiv apartment building rose Friday to 24, including three teenagers, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said as he led the mourning for one of the deadliest attacks on the capital in the 4-year-old war. The cruise missile hit the...

Thirty-four European states plus Australia, Costa Rica and the European Union said, on Friday, May 15, that they would join a future special tribunal for Ukraine to prosecute Russia over its invasion of the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed an accord with the Council of Europe...

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...

Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the Houthi group have signed a United Nations-backed agreement in Jordan to exchange more than 1,600 detainees, marking the largest prisoner exchange since the country’s civil war began in September 2014. Under the accord, the Houthis will release...

Israel has drastically escalated its attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip in the five weeks since halting its joint bombing with the United States of Iran, redirecting its firepower to the devastated Palestinian enclave. Conflict monitor ACLED, which tracks Israeli attacks in Gaza, said in ⁠a report...