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South Africa has bid farewell to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the last great hero of the struggle against apartheid. The requiem mass was held on January 1 at Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral where, for years, Tutu used the pulpit to rail against a brutal white minority regime. Tutu died last Sunday...

Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has described deadly violence last week as an attempted coup d'etat. He told leaders of a military alliance of ex-Soviet states the action had been coordinated by a "single center," but did not name those responsible. Troops from Russia and other...

Human Rights Watch has found that the killing of at least 65 protesters on March 14 in Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, was planned and premeditated. HRW released a report accusing security forces of deliberately encircling and using lethal force against crowds calling for the reinstatement of the...

The head of a United Nations team investigating ISIL's atrocities in Iraq has said the armed group's fighters committed crimes against humanity and war crimes at a prison in the northern city of Mosul, where at least 1,000 mostly Shi Muslim prisoners were systematically killed seven years ago...

Honduras' ruling party conceded defeat in presidential elections, giving victory to leftist opposition candidate Xiomara Castro - Honduras' first female president. Tegucigalpa Mayor and presidential candidate of the National Party Nasry Asfura's recognition of the outcome was a relief to many...

Ugandan troops have crossed into the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of a joint operation against the Allied Democratic Forces, an armed group that both neighboring countries accuse of massacring civilians. Resident Julien Ngandayabo told Reuters, "There is a real panic here at home...

After a six-day official visit to Croatia, the Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-recurrence, Fabian Salvioli, urged the government to advance the transitional justice agenda following the 1991-94 armed conflict. Citing increased cases of...

A long-awaited report into allegations of abuse committed during former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s 22-year rule has recommended to the government to pursue criminal charges against those responsible. The 14,000-page document was handed on Thursday by the Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparations...

On Tuesday, the Yemen-based group Mwatana for Human Rights and the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic asked Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to open new investigations of past US attacks in Yemen, apologize for the deaths of civilians whom the US has already acknowledged killing, and provide...

A video posted on social media by Virginia Tech professor Sweta Gyanu Baniya has made a Nepali artifact one of the latest targets for heritage activists sleuthing online to try to bring home some of the thousands of items whisked out over decades from the Himalayan country. In the video, Baniya sees...