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Madagascar on Tuesday received three skulls of Indigenous warriors returned from France, including one believed to be of a king killed by French troops 128 years ago. It’s the first use of a 2023 French law regulating the return of human remains to its former colonies. One skull is believed to...

Denmark and Greenland on Wednesday officially apologized for their roles in the historic mistreatment of Greenlandic Indigenous girls and women, including forced contraception, in cases that date back to the 1960s. Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the prime minister of Greenland, said the issue represented “a...

France has returned to Madagascar three human skulls kept at a Paris museum for 128 years, after they were looted during the colonial period, including one believed to be that of a Madagascan king decapitated by French troops. The skull, presumed to be that of King Toera, and two others from the...

The mothers of some fighters in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) called on Wednesday for an amnesty for their children and an end to decades of death, before a Turkish parliamentary commission overseeing the group’s disarmament. “We mothers do not want to cry anymore. Let us bury weapons...

Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has signed into law a controversial piece of legislation that would shield the military, police and other government-sanctioned forces from prosecution for human rights abuses committed during the country’s decades-long internal conflict. She defended the amnesty law...

In a new letter, French President Emmanuel Macron has acknowledged the violence committed by his country's forces in Cameroon during and after the Central African nation's struggle for independence. It followed a joint report by Cameroonian and French historians examining France's suppression of...
Hundreds of mourners carried the body of the prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif through the streets of Gaza City one day after he and four colleagues were killed in an Israeli airstrike, prompting condemnation from across the world. Sharif, one of Al Jazeera’s most recognizable faces in...
Nagasaki is marking the U.S. atomic attack on the southern Japanese city 80 years ago and survivors of the attack are working to make their hometown the last place on earth hit by the bomb. Despite their pain from wounds, discrimination, and illnesses from radiation, survivors have publicly...
A prominent Georgian journalist was convicted Wednesday of slapping a police chief during an anti-government protest and sentenced to two years in prison in a case that was condemned by rights groups as curbing press freedom. She was arrested Jan. 12, one of over 50 people taken into custody on...
A silent prayer was held in Japan on Wednesday morning as it marked 80 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba attended the ceremony, along with officials from around the world and the city's mayor Kazumi Matsui. In a...