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China underwent scrutiny of its human rights record at a United Nations meeting on January 23, with mostly Western countries calling for protections for Xinjiang Uyghurs and greater freedom in Hong Kong, which Beijing dismissed as guidance based on lies. The review at the U.N. in Geneva is the first...

North Korea has demolished a major monument in its capital that symbolized the goal of reconciliation with South Korea on the orders of leader Kim Jong Un, who last week called South Korea a "primary foe" and said unification was no longer possible. Tensions have spiked on the Korean peninsula...

The European Council (EC) has imposed sanctions on six companies for their alleged involvement in financing and arming the warring Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The six entities were responsible for “supporting activities undermining the stability and political...

The government of war-ravaged Sudan says it has suspended its membership in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the east African regional bloc that has tried to broker talks between the country’s warring parties. The January 20 announcement was made by the foreign ministry, which...

The United States government has announced it is once again designating Yemen’s Houthi rebels as a “terrorist” organization. Washington’s move on January 17 to relist the group as “specially designated global terrorists” comes after the US launched strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen in response to...

The UN Security Council demanded an immediate halt to attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea in a resolution adopted on January 10 that implicitly condemned their main weapons supplier: Iran. It condemns “in the strongest terms” at least two dozen attacks carried out by the Houthis...

The killing of civilians in Gaza is at a scale unprecedented in recent history, monitoring groups have said, as Israel continues to pound the besieged coastal enclave more than three months into the war. Britain-based charity Oxfam said on January 11 that the daily death toll of Palestinians in...

A Myanmar rebel alliance has gained control of a key town along the country's volatile northern border with China after weeks of fierce fighting with junta troops, the alliance and the junta said. The Three Brotherhood Alliance, as the group is known, said on Friday it had taken took over Laukkai...

The Rwandan government on January 11 said Burundi had decided to shut its border with the East African nation, weeks after the Burundian president accused it of hosting a rebel group. Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye in late December accused Rwanda of hosting and training the Red Tabara...

Peace talks between Colombia's government and the largest FARC dissident group managed to get the rebels to suspend kidnappings, free 10 hostages, and reduce clashes with the country's military in under three months, a government negotiator said on Friday. The government of leftist President Gustavo...