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Australian senator Lidia Thorpe has said the country’s planned referendum on an Indigenous “voice” to parliament should be called off because it is just “window dressing.” Thorpe, who is a Gunnai, Gunditjmara, and Djab Wurrung woman and a granddaughter of the revered Indigenous matriarch Alma Thorpe...

Media freedom defenders have called on Afghanistan's Taliban authorities to immediately release at least nine journalists currently in prison for their work and stop their "brutal" crackdown on national press members. Operatives of the Taliban's spy agency—the General Directorate of Intelligence...

Nearly 4,000 prosecutors and legal staff members face the threat of violence from the Taliban in Afghanistan, where at least 28 prosecutors and their families have reportedly been killed. When the Taliban seized back power in the country in August 2021, Sara—who was 28 at the time—was just a few...

Sri Lanka’s president said Wednesday he will strengthen provincial governments to meet long-standing demands for self-rule from the ethnic Tamil minority, an issue that led to a bloody quarter-century civil war in the island nation. The provincial councils were introduced in Sri Lanka in 1987 after...

War crimes committed by Myanmar's military, including the bombing of civilians, have become "increasingly frequent and brazen," a team of United Nations investigators said in a report published on Tuesday. The report by the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM), which covered the...

Japan on Sunday commemorated the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in the final phase of World War II. Considering the growing nuclear threat worldwide, the mayor of Hiroshima Kazumi Matsui called for the abolition of nuclear weapons and described the nuclear deterrence policy of...

Myanmar's ruling military pardoned on Tuesday jailed former leader Aung San Suu Kyi on five of the 19 offences for which she was convicted, but she will remain under house arrest, state media and informed sources said. The pardons mean six years will be shaved off Suu Kyi's 33-year jail term, junta...

U.S. officials held formal direct talks with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, this week, with the American delegation pushing Afghanistan's hardline Islamic rulers to restore basic rights for women and girls and to free U.S. nationals detained in the country. According to a statement posted online by the...

The latest polls for Australia’s groundbreaking referendum about whether to change the constitution to recognize the first peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice this year aren’t looking too good for the Yes campaign. The Voice would be an independent and...

Fighting between the Myanmar army and anti-junta rebels has flared up in recent days, with local people in one village saying on Saturday that 14 people were killed in a single raid. Deadly violence has engulfed Myanmar since the military deposed Aung San Suu Kyi’s civilian government in February...