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With the country’s transitional justice process paralyzed, a Nepali conflict victim has taken to the United Nations forum to remind the Nepal government of its responsibilities towards the victims. Speaking before the UN Security Council in New York on June 12, Ram Kumar Bhandari, whose father was...

The Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed the suit, filed in 2020 by a trio of survivors, on June 12. An estimated 300 Black Americans were killed when a white mob razed the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921. Only two known survivors—Viola Fletcher, 110, and Lessie Benningfield Randle...

Haiti’s transitional council appointed a new cabinet on June 11, marking the final step in rebuilding the government that will lead a country under siege by gangs. Haiti struggles with gangs that control at least 80 percent of the capital of Port-au-Prince. It is preparing for the UN-backed...

The U.N. Security Council overwhelmingly approved its first resolution endorsing a cease-fire plan aimed at ending the eight-month war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza on June 10. The U.S.-sponsored resolution welcomes a cease-fire proposal announced by President Joe Biden that the United States...

Armenia will leave a Russia-led military alliance, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan confirmed on June 12, accusing members of the bloc of plotting with bitter rival Azerbaijan to start a war against them. Pashinyan has for months accused the Kremlin’s Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) of...

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on June 12 that a peace treaty with Azerbaijan was close to completion, but that his country would not accept Baku’s demands that it change its constitution. After Pashinyan made the comments, clashes broke out between police and demonstrators, the latest...

The director of the UN World Food Program said on June 9 the program has “paused” its distribution of humanitarian aid from an American-built pier off Gaza, saying she was “concerned about the safety of our people” after what had been one of the deadliest days of the war there. On June 8, an Israeli...

A new trial against the jailed Iranian Nobel peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi opened on June 8 in her absence, said a lawyer for the women’s rights activist who has refused to attend hearings. Mohammadi, 52, has been jailed since November 2021 over several past convictions relating to her...

The UN has called for the immediate release of 11 of its personnel who have been detained by the Houthi movement in Yemen. The employees were taken in various parts of the conflict-torn country, in what appears to be a coordinated crackdown. UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said the world body was...

Large protests calling on Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan to resign have extended into a second day following a demonstration on June 9. Following a rally featuring thousands and an overnight vigil in pouring rain, hundreds of protesters rallied in front of Armenia’s parliament in Yerevan on...