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At least six children were killed and 17 wounded when army helicopters shot at a school in Myanmar, media reports and residents said on Monday, as the military said it opened fire because rebels were using the building to attack its forces. Myanmar has been gripped by violence since the army...

The US is moving $3.5 billion to the new "Afghan Fund," but officials said they won't release the money imminently to an institution in Afghanistan because there is no trusted institution to guarantee the funds will benefit the Afghan people, the officials said. Instead, it will be administered by...

The outbreak of cholera in Syria presents a serious threat to people in the war-torn country and the region, a U.N. official said Tuesday, adding that urgent action is needed to prevent further cases and deaths. The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Syria, Imran Riza, said that based on a...

Hundreds of people, including relatives of those lost in killings involving state forces, gathered in Belfast to demand the scrapping of the government's contentious plan to deal with the legacy of the Northern Ireland Troubles. The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill, which...

Gaston Browne, prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, announced he plans to hold a referendum within the next three years to decide whether to remove the king as head of state and become a republic. "This is a matter that has to be taken to a referendum for the people to decide," Browne told ITV...

The vote is set for nearly a year and a half after Saied suspended the Ennahdha-dominated assembly and sacked the government, later pushing through a constitution enshrining his one-man rule. "The National Salvation Front has definitively decided to boycott the upcoming elections," said Ahmed Nejib...

Iraq’s top court, the Federal Court, on Wednesday rejected a petition to dissolve the parliament, saying that to do so would be beyond the court's legal authority and that the parliament—which has the power to choose a president and prime minister—must dissolve itself if it is deemed to not have...

An affiliate of the ISIL (ISIS) armed group in Afghanistan has targeted Hazaras—a predominantly Shia Muslim ethnic group—and other minorities, in a wave of attacks at mosques, schools, and workplaces, undermining the Taliban’s promise of greater security, the Human Rights Watch said in a report on...

Ahead of the UN Human Rights Chief’s latest report on Sri Lanka, and a likely resolution at the coming session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Sri Lankan government reiterated that it would not accept any external mechanism on war-time accountability. Though rejecting the possibility of...

Colombia’s Truth Commission revealed the names of 423 people and 58 companies that allegedly financed the expansion of paramilitary organization AUC between 1995 and 1998 within the city of Medellin. None of the people and the companies in the AUC’s financial administration were taken to court after...