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A mayor was shot dead on Wednesday in the Mexican state of Morelos after having survived a previous assassination attempt earlier this year. He is the 14th mayor to be murdered since Claudia Sheinbaum became president in October 2024. Valentín Lavín Romero, who was from the Green party, an ally of...

Indian authorities have released prominent Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez and journalist Irfan Mehraj on bail after years in prison on “terrorism” financing charges although both remain under tight court-imposed restrictions. The two men walked free from a New Delhi jail late on...

At least 20 people have been killed in northwest Nigeria after armed gang members attacked villages in Zamfara State, according to the AFP news agency. The attacks come amid increasing violence in northwest and central Nigeria, where armed gangs or bandits have raided villages in recent weeks. They...

International Criminal Court judges reluctantly dropped a case Thursday against a fugitive Sudanese rebel accused of attacking African Union peacekeepers in Darfur nearly 20 years ago, after prosecutors said they could no longer prove their case at trial. Judges were unusually critical of...

India’s opposition parties have shut down parliament in a protest calling for the resignation of the education minister, in solidarity with the new youth-led “cockroach” movement. Opposition politicians, led by the Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, gathered outside the parliament building in Delhi...

A court in the Angolan capital of Luanda in central Africa has jailed two Russian men on charges ranging from espionage to terrorism on Tuesday evening local time. The BBC identified the two as political consultant Igor Ratchin and translator Lev Lakshtanov, who were jailed for 11 and 8 years...

Hungary’s former prime minister Viktor Orbán declared on Wednesday that he and his far-right Fidesz party will lead a peaceful “resistance” movement against what he called the tyrannical exercise of power by the country’s new center-right government. Orbán was defeated in a blowout election in April...

The deposed leader of Turkey’s main opposition on Tuesday announced plans to establish a new political party to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The announcement came months after Ozgur Ozel was removed from his post as leader of the Republican People’s Party, or CHP, by a court order — a...

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega said his country won’t be holding elections anytime soon, a statement underscoring the strongman’s efforts to extend his nearly 20-year rule and dashing hopes by the opposition that he might heed their demands for a democratic vote. The announcement effectively...

The Kosovo Prosecutorial Council, KPC, on Monday denied the requests of several Serb prosecutors to return to their posts, nearly four years after Kosovo Serbs staged a mass resignation from Kosovo institutions in 2022. Chief State Prosecutor Zejnullah Gashi told the KPC meeting on Monday that while...