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A protest erupted in India’s capital Tuesday in response to the death of a Hindu man who was lynched and burned by an angry mob in neighboring Bangladesh, a new sign of strain in relations between the neighboring countries. The protest in New Delhi, mainly led by Hindu nationalist organization...

New fighting has broken out along the Thailand-Cambodia border as foreign ministers from Southeast Asian nations met in Malaysia to find a resolution to the deadly conflict between the two neighbors. The clashes early on Monday threatened to undermine diplomatic efforts by the Association of...

A court in Ecuador handed lengthy prison sentences Monday to a group of eleven soldiers who were responsible for the abduction and torture of four children last year—a case that has rattled the South American nation and raised questions about President Daniel Noboa’s efforts to militarize some...

Israeli forces have advanced into the Quneitra area of Syria’s occupied Golan Heights and set up two military checkpoints, an Al Jazeera correspondent on the ground reports. The Israeli military operation on Saturday took place in the villages of Ain Ziwan and al-Ajraf in the southern part of the...

The UN Security Council has urged Rwanda to withdraw its forces from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and extended the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, known as MONUSCO, for a year, as fighting in the region escalated despite a U.S.-mediated peace deal. The UN’s most powerful body on...

Tens of thousands of people on Thursday filled the streets of Bulgaria’s capital and other major cities in the country, calling for a fair election and an independent judiciary able to effectively fight widespread corruption. The demonstrations in Sofia and elsewhere came after last week’s protests...

Violence broke out in Bangladesh’s capital after a youth leader of the country’s 2024 pro-democracy uprising, who was injured in an assassination attempt, died in a hospital in Singapore. Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Dhaka early on Friday after the death of Sharif Osman Hadi, 32...

At least 16 people have been killed in an artillery bombardment of a besieged city in Sudan’s embattled Kordofan region, adding to a mounting civilian death toll as the country’s brutal civil war enters a critical phase deep into its third year. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allies in the...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned the detention of 10 more UN staff members by the Houthis in Yemen. Stephane Dujarric, a spokesperson for Guterres, confirmed on Friday that the previous day’s arrests had brought the total of detained local staffers to 69, calling for...

Israeli warplanes have struck multiple areas across southern and eastern Lebanon, targeting sites in al-Jabour, al-Qatrani and al-Rayhan in the south, as well as Buday and Hermel in the Bekaa Valley, according to an Al Jazeera correspondent on the ground. The raids, which also hit Wadi Al-Qusayr...