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Brazil’s prosecutor-general has presented its first charges against some of the thousands of people accused of storming government buildings in an effort to overturn the results of the October election, which former President Jair Bolsonaro lost. The prosecutors in the recently formed group to...

The United Nations envoy for Yemen said on Monday he was encouraged by intensified efforts for an expanded truce deal but stressed they should seek an inclusive process for a sustainable political settlement. A UN-brokered truce deal agreed in April and rolled over twice delivered the longest...

The German and Dutch foreign ministers on Monday condemned the deportation by Russians of thousands of Ukrainian children, calling it a deliberate policy of cruel and inhumane abductions that is tearing families apart. German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said German and Dutch ministers will...

Several members of the United Nations Security Council have urged the Taliban to end its repressive treatment of women in Afghanistan, as the group continued to impose restrictive policies on their education and work. The 11 members — Albania, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Japan, Malta...

Brazil’s Supreme Court has agreed to investigate whether former president Jair Bolsonaro incited the far-right mob that ransacked the country’s Congress, top court and presidential offices, a swift escalation in the probe that shows the ex-leader could face legal consequences for an extremist...

The French and German foreign ministers on Thursday hailed the success of the Ethiopian peace agreement signed last year, ending two years of brutal war, on a joint visit to Addis Ababa. The trip by France’s Catherine Colonna and Annalena Baerbock of Germany began a day after Tigrayan rebels...

Forces from Ethiopia’s Amhara region who fought in support of federal troops during the two-year civil war in neighbouring Tigray have withdrawn in line with an African Union-backed ceasefire, the army says. The withdrawal is a key step toward implementing the agreement reached on November 2...

The UN human rights chief says the flurry of death sentences handed down following the outbreak of civil unrest in Iran amounts to “state sanctioned killing,” with executions being used to strike fear into the population and stamp out dissent. The Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights said on Monday...

A Liberian man convicted of 22 counts of war crimes including rape, murder, and an act of cannibalism is seeking to overturn the judgement at an appeal trial in Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court, where he also faces new charges of crimes against humanity. Alieu Kosiah was found guilty by the...

Myanmar has jailed 112 people, including 12 children, from the minority Rohingya after they were caught attempting to leave the country. The group was arrested in December after they were discovered on a motorboat “without any official documents,” the report said. The mostly Muslim Rohingya are...