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Libya’s eastern-based parliament has approved a national reconciliation and transitional justice law, as stated by three of its lawmakers. The measure is aimed at reunifying the oil-producing country after over a decade of factional conflict. The UN’s mission to Libya has repeatedly called for an...

After a trial in October 2024, human rights activist lawyer Yu Wensheng appealed against his three-year prison sentence for “inciting subversion of state power.” On January 6, 2025, the Suzhou Intermediate People’s Court rejected his appeal. Yu Wensheng’s wife and activist Xu Yan was sentenced to...

Co-founder of France’s main postwar far-right movement Jean-Marie died on Tuesday at the age of 96. Le Pen, co-founder of the National Front (FN), sowed division throughout the country even after his death as the government slammed nationwide celebrations of his passing. Interior Minister Bruno...

On the eve of President Nicolas Maduro’s inauguration, Venezuelan opposition politician María Corina Machado was detained. At 3:21 p.m. local time, Machado’s press team said that security forces intercepted her convoy. But, in the coming hour, a 20-second video of Machado emerged online where she...

Talks aimed at ending a 40-year-old militant conflict are signaling a peace process in Turkey. However, Kurdish forces currently remain in Syria and uncertainty about Ankara's intentions have left many Kurds anxious about a future peace. Abdullah Ocalan, jailed head of the Kurdistan Workers Party...

A late-night breakthrough occurred in talks attended by envoys of both outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump. Mediators gave Israel and Hamas a final draft of a deal on Monday to end the war in Gaza. Biden said a ceasefire and hostage release deal he had championed was...

Lebanon’s newly elected President Joseph Aoun has summoned Nawaf Salam, the head of the International Court of Justice, to designate him as the country’s prime minister after he won the backing of more than half of parliamentarians.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies have been targeting Masalit civilians in El-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, since April 15, 2023. A United Nations panel of experts found in January 2024 that the RSF and allied militias killed up to 15,000 people in El-Geneina. Nearly a year later...

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC). The vote signals a protest of the ICC’s arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister over Israel's campaign in Gaza. The vote was 243 to 140 in favor of the...

Chad's government has said security forces had thwarted an alleged effort to destabilize the country, after a group of people attacked the presidential palace in the capital, N'Djamena. "An attempt at destabilization has been foiled. Nineteen people died and six were injured, including 18 assailants...