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Nicaragua is holding general elections after a months-long campaign mired by controversy, including a widely denounced wave of arrests of opposition leaderrs and presidential hopefuls. President Daniel Ortega, running virtually unopposed, has overseen what rights groups and international observers...

Nine anti government factions in Ethiopia have said they had formed an alliance, the United Front of Ethiopian Federalist and Confederalist Forces, amid growing fears that they will attempt to overthrow the government of Abiy Ahmed. The United Front said it was being formed "to reverse the harmful...

Protests against the results of Iraq's recent parliamentary election have turned violent in Baghdad, with demonstrators denouncing "fraud" clashing with security forces outside the capital's high-security Green Zone. "So many people in the streets say that they do not believe in this electoral...

Ten experts tasked with examining Belgium's colonial past from different points of view have delivered their final report, which includes a suggestion that the country pay reparations to the Congo. The commission behind the report was instructed to take stock of the knowledge about Belgium's...

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States have urged the restoration of the civilian government in Sudan following last week's coup. In a joint statement the four countries said, "We call for the full and immediate restoration of its civilian-led transitional...

The Biden administration has blacklisted Israeli firm NSO Group, accusing the technology company of developing and supplying spyware to foreign governments "that used these tools to maliciously" target a range of actors, including journalists and activists. Danna Ingleton, deputy director of Amnesty...

At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when Islamic State gunmen attacked Afghanistan's biggest military hospital, Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan, in central Kabul following two heavy explosions. The blasts add to a growing list of attacks and killings since the Taliban completed their...

Five women are seeking reparations and suing the Belgian state for crimes against humanity for the segregationist policy that stripped them from their mothers—one that endured from the end of the 19th century to Congo's independence in 1960 and even after. As mixed-race children born under colonial...

A joint investigation into alleged atrocities in Ethiopia found all sides committed grave abuses that may amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes in the yearlong war in the Tigray region. The report, a collaboration of the United Nations human rights office and the government-created...

A senior United Nations official has warned that millions of Afghans, including children, could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken to pull Afghanistan back from the brink of collapse. The World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley told Reuters news agency that 22.8 million...