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Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, has issued a decree giving himself emergency powers to restore order in the rural Catatumbo region. The decree provides the president with up to 270 days to impose curfews, restrict traffic and take other steps that would normally violate Colombians’ civil rights...

Afghans who fled their home country after the Taliban’s return to power in 2021 are pleading for the United States to reconsider a decision canceling all existing refugee resettlement efforts. Reactions continued to pour in against an executive order Trump had signed two days prior, on his first day...

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...

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...

Giorgi Gakharia, a former prime minister of Georgia who now leads one of the country's main opposition groups, was hospitalized after being severely beaten, a spokeswoman for his party told Reuters. The source stated that Gakharia had sustained injuries on his face and head during an assault by...

On January 15, hundreds of Georgian companies suspended work in an unprecedented three-hour nationwide strike. Protest banners appeared throughout Tbilisi early in the morning calling for public participation in an action aimed at demonstrating the potential consequences of Georgia’s international...

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was arrested after a dramatic and drawn-out showdown with law enforcement officials. Police and corruption officers scaled the walls of his residential compound, where he had been holed up for nearly two weeks, evading arrest, after his short-lived...

United Nations rights chief Volker Turk emphasized the importance of transitional justice for Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, during the first-ever visit by someone in his post to the country. Since Islamist-led rebels seized Damascus last month, the United Nations has called for Assad and...

European foreign ministers have agreed to meet at the end of January to discuss lifting sanctions on Syria. Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, said that the foreign ministers would convene in Brussels on January 27 to probe how the 27-member bloc might approach the issue. After...

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...