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Human rights activists surrounded the Buenos Aires City Legislature on Monday to denounce an event honoring victims of armed leftist groups during the 1970s, when Argentina was engulfed by political violence. The tribute was arranged by Victoria Villaruel—the running-mate of right-wing populist...

The ouster of Gabon’s president by mutinous soldiers appears to have been well organized and capitalized on the population’s grievances against the government as an excuse to seize power, analysts said. Soldiers on Wednesday ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose family has ruled the oil-rich...

The United Nations’ top official in Yemen warned Monday that the Arab world’s poorest country will remain a powder keg for renewed war unless its rival factions work out a new cease-fire deal. Hans Grundberg, the UN special representative for Yemen, told The Associated Press the situation in the...

A Chilean court has confirmed jail terms for seven elderly retired soldiers for the 1973 murder of beloved folk singer Victor Jara in the aftermath of the coup d’etat that installed Augusto Pinochet. The soldiers—aged between 73 and 85 and free men until the ruling—will now have to report to prison...

Twenty years after the final report of Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the National Security Archive (NSA), a U.S. non-governmental organization that has worked to access confidential U.S. government documents for 38 years, has posted a collection of 22 cables and declassified...

There has been a “disturbing surge” in the number of female suicides and attempted female suicides in Afghanistan since the Taliban took control in 2021, according to a report by British newspaper The Guardian. The report said health care providers agreed to privately share the information from...

Baghdad has announced a financial reward for information on the location of burial sites for Iraqi and Kuwaiti victims of the 1990-1991 Gulf War. In a joint statement on Sunday, the Iraqi ministries of defense and interior called on anyone who has information about graves of missing persons inside...

The U.S. State Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on 13 people and entities it said are reportedly connected to the forced deportation and transfer of Ukraine's children, as Washington ramps up pressure on Moscow over its invasion. The United States is also taking steps to impose visa...

Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers continue a widespread and systematic campaign of rape in Tigray, despite the peace agreement signed in November last year, a new report reveals. In the first report to document sexual violence—using hundreds of medical records from the start of the conflict in...

The head of a commission charged with searching for tens of thousands of missing people in Mexico has stepped down, as critics accuse the government of trying to undermine the true scale of the disappearances. Karla Quintana, head of the National Search Commission, did not elaborate on the motives...