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A court in Istanbul, Turkey ordered the arrest of Umit Ozdag, president of the anti-migrant and far-right Victory Party (VP) for “public incitement to hatred and enmity”. The prosecutor’s office highlighted Ozdag’s alleged influence on anti-migrant unrest in Kayseri province in 2024. Ozdag’s...

According to Ukrainian officials, Russian military drones are swarming the skies over the front-line city of Kherson, carrying out deadly attacks that appear to target civilians. "Since the first day of this year alone, the enemy has attacked the region [with drones] about 650 times," Oleksandr...

A Libyan general wanted for alleged war crimes and violence against inmates at a prison near Tripoli has been arrested in the northern Italian city of Turin – and then released after an apparent mistake by prosecutors. Osama Najim, Libyan general also known as Almasri, was detained on an...

Against the backdrop of the temporary ceasefire in Gaza, UN Secretary General António Guterres addressed the UN Security Council’s first quarterly debate on the Middle East for the year. The council debate also focused on the end of hostilities in Lebanon sparked by the war and the fall of the Assad...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is bracing itself for President Donald Trump to launch aggressive economic sanctions against it this week after his inauguration. This possible move has incited fear which could paralyze its work and pose a major threat. ICC officials are preparing for Trump’s...

Southeast Asian nations have told Myanmar’s military government its plan to hold an election amid an escalating civil war should not be its priority, urging it to start dialogue and end hostilities immediately. The foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) called on...

South Sudan’s police imposed a nationwide curfew from 16:00 GMT on Friday after a night of deadly rioting in the capital over the alleged killing of South Sudanese people by the army and allied groups in neighboring Sudan. In a broadcast on state television, police chief Abraham Peter Manyuat said...

The number of internally displaced children in Haiti has increased by nearly 50 percent since September 2024. As a result of ongoing violence caused by armed groups, displaced children are approximately one in eight across the entire country. According to the latest estimates, there are now over one...

Ukraine’s Presidential Office announced that the International Register of Damage for Ukraine has begun accepting applications for compensation from families who lost close relatives due to Russia's full-scale invasion. According to the register’s website, the application process for this category...

The administration of outgoing United States President Joe Biden has imposed sanctions on the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. In a statement on Thursday, January 16, the U.S. Treasury Department stated the SAF has committed lethal attacks on both civilians and...