Turkey has blocked the website and social media accounts of T24, a leading independent digital news site, after the justice ministry accused it of producing what it called "LGBT propaganda". The ministry said Wednesday the action was part of the "My Family is…
South Sudanese government critic Samuel Peter Oyay has been detained in the United Arab Emirates for a year without charge, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday as it called for his immediate release. HRW said Oyay fled South Sudan for security reasons in 2014 a…
Haitian-Canadian author Thelyson Orelien has returned to Montreal as controversy continues over allegations that he used artificial intelligence to write his debut novel, friends and fellow writers said. Orelien, 38, became a prominent name in the French-lang…
Iranian prisoner Mahboubeh Shahbani has urged international action after being sentenced to death over protests earlier this year, in an audio recording shared by rights groups on Wednesday. Shahbani, 33, spoke from Mashhad's Vakilabad prison after her lawyer…
Women in Bangladesh are securing a smaller share of public-sector jobs after quota reforms that followed years of student protests over recruitment rules. Until 2018, quotas covered 56 percent of Class I posts, the top ranking civil service and public-sector…
Vietnamese authorities have been accused by the campaign group Viet Tan of abducting two pro-democracy activists in Cambodia and detaining them in Vietnam on what the group called fabricated terrorism charges. Viet Tan identified the two men as Nguyen Duc Thu…
Japanese volleyball player Rui Takahashi came out as gay on Tuesday, saying he wanted to help others struggling with their sexuality in a country where openly LGBTQ athletes are rare. Takahashi, 26, plays in the top division of Japan's professional volleyball…
Thousands of protesters marched in Mexico City on Saturday demanding answers about the 43 Ayotzinapa trainee teachers who disappeared 12 years ago. The protest was led by parents of the missing students, who walked to the capital's main square near the govern…
Claremont Girl Clash of Hearts won Best in Show at New Zealand's National Guinea Pig Show, where nearly 300 guinea pigs were presented to crowds in Taupo. The black short-haired guinea pig from Timaru on New Zealand's South Island is owned by teenager Josh Wi…
Venezuelan human rights group Justicia, Encuentro y Perdon said 39 political dissidents were released from prisons between Friday and Saturday after talks between the interim government and the opposition. The group said the freed prisoners included eight wom…
The pope landed in Lourdes on September 26 to pray at a shrine.
Thousands of people marched through Madrid on Saturday to protest the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal from the home where she had lived for decades, calling for stronger protection for tenants. Images of Abascal being carried from her Madrid flat o…
A 14-metre statue of Pope Leo XIV is being built in a workshop in Lima's Carabayllo district before the pontiff's expected arrival in Peru on November 11. Artist Rafael Gutierrez is leading eight workers on the monument, which will show the pope with open arm…
Pope Leo XIV celebrated an open-air mass at Place de la Concorde in Paris on Saturday, September 26, with about 800,000 people gathered along the Champs Elysees and beyond the Arc de Triomphe, the Vatican said. The 71-year-old pope rode in the popemobile alon…
The United Nations updated its database of companies with activities in Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories on Friday, listing 214 firms from 11 countries. The UN rights office said it had added 61 companies and removed five since last year's updat…
Some taxi drivers in Kabul are playing Afghan, regional folk and pop music in their cars despite a Taliban government ban on music in public places. Drivers told AFP they lower the volume or switch the music off near checkpoints because they fear the morality…
Turkey has blocked the X account of Yaman Akdeniz, a digital rights expert and founder of the Freedom of Expression Association, for users in Turkey, internet censorship monitor EngelliWeb said Thursday. EngelliWeb said the block cited protection of national…
Belarus has pardoned 15 convicted prisoners, including 13 people convicted of what the presidency called extremist crimes, AFP reported, describing the 13 as political prisoners. The Belarusian presidency said Thursday that President Alexander Lukashenko had…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called the eviction of 87-year-old Maricarmen from her Madrid home an unacceptable “social tragedy” on Wednesday, after the case drew national attention to Spain’s housing crisis. Maricarmen had lived for 70 years in the c…
UNRWA's acting chief accused Israel's government of squeezing the UN agency for Palestinian refugees before Israel's October 27 election, saying restrictions on supplies to Gaza and a funding gap could force service cuts. Christian Saunders, UNRWA's acting co…
Jailed Russian theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich weighs 42 kilogrammes and has been placed in a punishment cell for the third time, her lawyer Ksenia Karpinskaya said Wednesday. Karpinskaya said Berkovich was sent to the punishment cell on September 16 and…
Fariba Hashimi won silver for Afghanistan in the women's road race near Nagoya, Japan, at the Asian Games on Tuesday. The 23-year-old cyclist, who now lives and trains in Italy, said the medal was “something special” and linked it to the struggle of Afghan wo…
Amnesty International said on September 21 that the Rwanda-backed M23 armed group carried out torture, arbitrary detention and other serious abuses against artisanal miners in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The rights organisation said it documented th…
South African ostrich farms are removing feathers from living birds in painful conditions to supply the fashion industry, World Animal Protection said on Monday. The animal welfare group said an investigation with Collective Fashion Justice documented workers…
The British Museum has banned visitors from taking photos of the Bayeux Tapestry during its London exhibition to keep crowds moving, a spokesperson confirmed Monday. The museum said there had been enormous interest in the nearly 1,000-year-old artwork and tha…
At least 11 people have been arrested in Tunisia after a protest demanding the release of jailed organisers of a Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla, lawyers and activists said on Sept. 21. The number detained after the Sept. 19 demonstration in Tunis remains un…
Major US broadcasters halted television pool coverage of President Donald Trump on September 21 in protest at his decision to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC said they were stopping pool coverage, in which one bro…
Egypt has paid about 300,000 Egyptian pounds, less than $6,000, to the family of activist and poet Shaimaa al-Sabbagh, more than 11 years after police shot her dead, the family's lawyer said Monday. Ali Suleiman told AFP the family received the compensation l…
Iran's judiciary said authorities opened a criminal case against organisers of a 10-kilometre run in Tehran over alleged religious and legal violations, after images showed women competing without hijab. The run took place on Friday, the same day as a militar…
Jailed Iranian reform activist Mostafa Tajzadeh has been granted temporary leave from prison after more than four years in detention, his wife told the ISNA news agency on Sunday. Fakhrossadat Mohtashamipour said Tajzadeh “has been granted a few days' leave f…
Mustafa Khaled Alwan, a 72-year-old Syrian in Homs, has recovered a concealed library of mainly Islamist books after more than a decade away from the city. Alwan said he hid the collection behind a wall in 2011, when protests against Bashar al-Assad were spre…
South African journalist Micah Reddy has gone missing in Djibouti along with his local fixer, Kooki Mahmoud, his family said. Reddy, who also holds British nationality, travelled to Djibouti on assignment on Thursday. His wife, Nicole Beardsworth, said he rem…
About 1,000 Aetas in Tarlac province, north of Manila, fear they could be forced from ancestral land as the Philippines prepares a US-led technology manufacturing hub in New Clark City. Petronila Munoz, an Aeta Hungey tribal leader, said her community had lit…
Thirty-seven young men were found dead in a Nigerian paramilitary civil defence force holding cell after being arrested on suspicion of illegal goldmining, prompting families to demand justice and the government to appoint an independent investigation panel.…
A Palestinian horse race returned to the village of Al-Majd, west of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, after being suspended for two years in the wake of the Gaza war. Riders raced Arabian horses along a dirt track as residents watched from the course…
Ed Sheeran said the situation in Gaza was “catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate” during his first concert since a controversy over the removal of rapper Macklemore from his US tour. Speaking onstage in Philadelphia on Saturday, Sheeran also sai…
US federal judge Timothy Kelly ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to immediately restore White House access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico after President Donald Trump barred their reporters from the premises. Kelly found that revoking the outlets' pr…
Amnesty accused Equatorial Guinea's authorities on Friday of beating and jailing two men who had been expelled from the United States to the central African country, where neither of them is from. The rights group named the men as Ahmed Soliman, originally fr…
Human Rights Watch said Georgian authorities are jailing or fining critics over social media posts under vague rules, warning that the practice threatens free expression in Georgia. The rights group said a new interior ministry division, created in June to co…
Venezuela's interim president Delcy Rodriguez hosted a Human Rights Watch delegation on Thursday, the government said, 18 years after Hugo Chavez expelled the group's Americas director. The delegation was led by Human Rights Watch deputy executive director Fe…
Venezuela has restored access to 17 news sites that had been censored for years, digital rights group VE Sin Filtro said, as US-backed political transition talks with parts of the opposition were set to resume in Caracas. Telecom regulator CONATEL announced t…
The European Parliament called on Thursday for sanctions against Chinese and Hong Kong officials over the jailing of three activists linked to Tiananmen Square vigils in Hong Kong. MEPs overwhelmingly backed a non-binding resolution condemning the sentences a…
Guinea's media regulator banned France 24 from broadcasting in the country on September 17 after the French television outlet described President Mamady Doumbouya as a “putschist president”. The High Authority for Communication said the channel made “remarks…
Taraneh Rahimi, a 21-year-old Iranian woman arrested after protests in Isfahan, has been sentenced to death, according to the US-based Human Rights Activists group. The group, known as HRANA, said Taraneh was sentenced in August on charges of “waging war agai…
Ukrainian fashion designer Arina Petrova debuted her first collection at Kyiv Fashion Week as air raid sirens sounded in the capital, with her Kharkiv-based Bob Basset studio prepared to move the show into a shelter if needed. Petrova, 28, and her father Serh…
India's amendment to its transgender law has disrupted access to gender-affirming healthcare for some people, according to doctors, activists and patients, after clinics interpreted the changes as creating legal risk. The amendment introduced penalties for fo…
The Codex Azcatitlan, a 16th-century Mexican manuscript that recounts Aztec history in pictograms, went on display in Mexico City on Thursday after nearly two centuries in France. Two folios from the manuscript were shown in a glass case at the National Museu…
Spain has selected "The Black Ball" as its international feature film contender for the Academy Awards after the drama drew a standing ovation at the Toronto Film Festival. The film, known in Spanish as "La Bola Negra," is directed by Javier Ambrossi and Javi…
Forty-three countries called on Taliban authorities on Wednesday to immediately lift restrictions on the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan and end human rights violations. Jerome Bonnafont, France's representative to the United Nations, spoke for the s…
UN investigators said Wednesday that Venezuela has maintained a “repressive apparatus” responsible for illegal detentions and disappearances despite human rights improvements since the United States detained longtime leader Nicolas Maduro. The UN Fact-Finding…
Several supporting acts have said they are quitting Ed Sheeran's “Loop Tour” after rapper Macklemore was dropped following pro-Palestinian comments during a performance. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and the activist group Humanti Project criticised Sheeran…
Belarus freed 25 political prisoners Wednesday as the United States lifts sanctions on two Belarusian companies, US envoy John Coale said after his latest visit to Minsk. “Twenty-five prisoners are free today!” Coale said on social media, posting an image wit…
The Collegiate Body of Guardians of the Atrato River has won Norway's Rafto Prize for its fight against illegal mining and environmental destruction in Colombia. The Rafto Foundation said on Wednesday that the group was honoured for its members' “courageous f…
China rejected a rights group report accusing authorities of continuing to use torture and ill-treatment in detention, including beatings and denial of medical care. Chinese Human Rights Defenders said its report examined the cases of 209 prisoners between 20…
The number of environmental and land activists murdered or disappeared in Brazil in 2025 more than doubled to 26, the advocacy group Global Witness said Tuesday. Global Witness said Brazil was the world's second-most dangerous country for environmental defend…
Thirty-seven former world leaders have urged current governments to support a new International Panel on Inequality to address extreme wealth disparities. The signatories include former German chancellor Olaf Scholz, former French prime minister Jean-Pierre R…
Finneas and three other supporting acts said on September 15 that they had quit Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour after Macklemore was removed from the lineup following pro-Palestinian comments at a New Jersey show. Finneas, Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga, and Denmark'…
Malian journalist Abderhamane Keita was sentenced on Monday to two years in prison after remarks on a TV programme about the country's security situation. Keita, an editor at the daily Le Temoin newspaper, was taken into custody in early June for “undermining…
Turkish LGBTQ activist Yildiz Tar said a sweeping crackdown on LGBTQ people marks “the start of the election campaign” for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of an expected re-election bid in 2028. Tar, a 36-year-old member of Kaos GL, one of Turkey's leadi…
Kinshasa National Service cleaners, including former gang members recruited into a military-run paramilitary force, have been clearing rubbish from the Democratic Republic of Congo capital since June but are also accused of beating and abusing residents. Pres…
Survivors of the 2017 Marawi siege in the southern Philippines are still waiting for answers, compensation or a return home as the now semi-autonomous Muslim region prepares for its first elections on Monday. Sophia Aminolla, a nurse and mother of two, told A…
Israeli-made Gaza documentary “NAZA” was among the leading contenders for the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion on Saturday, after a competition marked by films about war, corruption, inequality and moral compromise. “NAZA”, by Oscar winners Yuval Abraham an…
Eyewitness videos from the deadly China-Nepal border flood have largely disappeared from Chinese social media, while Nepal has pressed platforms to remove fabricated posts but continued giving regular public casualty updates. The August 26 surge of water, mud…
Lady Gaga has welcomed her first child with fiancé Michael Polansky, Page Six and People reported, citing a source. No additional details about the baby, including the child's name, sex or date of birth, were immediately available. The 40-year-old singer, who…
Family members of political prisoners in Venezuela marched through downtown Caracas on Friday and delivered a letter to the presidential palace demanding more releases. About 100 demonstrators reached a police barricade near Miraflores palace before authoriti…
The United States commemorated the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on Friday with ceremonies in New York and at the Pentagon. President Donald Trump paid his respects at the Pentagon rather than at the Ground Zero ceremony in lower Manhatta…
Marco Bechis's “Return to Buenos Aires” is bringing Argentina's Dirty War and its lasting effect on survivors to the Venice Film Festival, where it is competing for the top prize to be awarded Saturday. Bechis, a 70-year-old Italian-Chilean director who lived…
Iranian director Ali Asgari said at the Venice Film Festival on Friday that ordinary choices in Iran have become political and that cinema is a way to resist censorship and pressure. Asgari is competing for the Golden Lion with “A Bit of Light,” a film about…
Japanese theatre troupe TremendousCircus uses Gothic Lolita fashion and performances about sexual violence, harassment and sexism to promote what it calls radical victim feminism. The fringe group staged a recent performance titled "Unite", in which actors po…
Indian filmmaker Anuparna Roy said India's Central Board of Film Certification has blocked distribution of her first feature, "Songs of Forgotten Trees", after it won a best director prize at Venice in 2025. Roy, 28, told AFP the board called the film a "thre…
New York marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks Friday with a Ground Zero ceremony marked by US President Donald Trump's absence and a dispute over Mayor Zohran Mamdani's attendance. Trump was paying his respects at the Pentagon rather…
George W. Bush is displaying 16 paintings inspired by the September 11, 2001 attacks at the Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, using art to revisit the events that defined his presidency. The exhibit includes a painting of lower Manhattan under gray smoke a…
Norwegian Refugee Council head Jan Egeland criticised countries that demand rights for Afghan women while cutting humanitarian aid, calling that position “hypocrisy” in Kabul on Thursday. Egeland said foreign governments were right to demand education for Afg…
Amnesty International accused Russia on Thursday of illegally trafficking foreigners to fight in Ukraine, saying some people were deceived into signing Russian military contracts after being lured by false job offers. The London-based rights group said its re…
Israeli-made documentary “NAZA”, about alleged AI-assisted killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, received a 25-minute ovation at its Venice Film Festival premiere on Thursday, AFP reported. AFP said the audience clapped continuously for Oscar-winning Isra…
Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been barred from international competition after losing her neutral athlete status, the International Skating Union said on Thursday. Valieva, 20, was among 234 Russian and Belarusian athletes who applied for neutral s…
South Korea's haenyeo divers, a centuries-old community of women who harvest seafood without oxygen tanks, are drawing some younger women away from demanding city work and into a dangerous coastal tradition. Jin So-hee, 33, grew up in Busan and worked as a nu…
The Bayeux Tapestry opened to the public at the British Museum in London on September 10 in a sold-out exhibition described as the medieval artwork's first dis…
Thousands of Cubans joined annual celebrations for the island's patron saint, Our Lady of Charity, praying for relief as regular blackouts, shortages and strained essential services weigh on daily life. The Tuesday procession honored the saint known affection…
A 54-year-old Greek woman has given birth to a baby girl after an embryo frozen more than 22 years ago was transferred in December, her gynaecologist said. Konstantinos Pantos said Christina Rapti-Tzelepi used an embryo from the same initial batch as an earli…
UN human rights chief Volker Turk urged countries on Wednesday to stop forced returns to Afghanistan, saying the country's rights and humanitarian crisis was getting worse while international attention had faded. Turk said millions of people in Afghanistan we…
Two documentaries at the Venice Film Festival are focusing on workers and migrants in the United States, with Oscar-winning filmmakers Barbara Kopple and Laura Poitras among the directors presenting the films. Kopple's "Union Town" debuted Wednesday at the fe…
A row over women's dress in Rwanda has widened after police apologised for an incident in Rubavu where a viral video showed a young woman being put into a poli…
A full-size replica of the Bayeux Tapestry at Reading Museum is drawing new attention as the original 11th-century work goes on public display in London from S…
Ukrainian soldiers who lost limbs in the war took to the runway at Kyiv Fashion Week in clothes designed for people with prosthetic limbs. Veteran Yaroslav Sharkiy, a former combat medic who lost a leg at the front, modelled pieces by Ukrainian designer Igor…
Muslim New Yorkers say their community has gained visibility and political power 25 years after the September 11, 2001 attacks triggered years of Islamophobia and surveillance. Asad Dandia, a 33-year-old historian who leads walking tours focused on New York's…
Spain's interior ministry apologised to journalists and denied trying to restrict media work on September 8 after El Confidencial reported that the ministry had compiled an internal list of reporters with notes on their political views. The online newspaper s…
Cricket great Wasim Akram has urged authorities to give jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan “fair treatment”. Akram, a former Pakistan teammate o…
Dozens of journalists protested in Tunisia on September 8 over the detention of Mohamed Yousfi, editor-in-chief of the Alqatiba website, on money-laundering ch…
The Committee for the Protection of Journalists urged Somaliland authorities on Tuesday to release journalist Abdiqani Hussein Abokor, saying he had been held without charge or trial for 10 days. CPJ said Abokor had been detained since August 29 after publish…
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday that newly released documents show the city did not disclose all it knew about toxic air after the September 11 atta…
Syria's future constitution should guarantee equality and inclusion for all religious minorities to help stem emigration, Social Affairs and Labour Minister Hind Kabawat said Tuesday. “We have to have a new constitution, which includes everybody, and everybod…
United Nations investigators said Tuesday that Israel's military activity in Syria, including the detention of hundreds of people, could constitute war crimes. Fionnuala Ni Aolain, a commissioner on the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the S…
Christmas preparations are already under way in the Philippines, where the start of September marks the beginning of the “ber months” countdown to the country'…
Paris Mayor Emmanuel Gregoire ordered two investigations Tuesday into why female staff were sidelined during a visit by the Hindu spiritual movement BAPS to the Eiffel Tower. The Paris landmark reopened Tuesday morning after a staff walkout closed it on Monda…
Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum will return the remains of 39 people taken during Britain's colonial era to the Naga community in northeast India. The museum said on Monday that it was preparing the repatriation after Oxford University approved a resti…
Danish director May el-Toukhy has criticised the lack of women in the Venice Film Festival's top competition, saying progress made after the #MeToo movement appeared to be slipping back. El-Toukhy was selected in July as the only female filmmaker in a 20-film…
The UK government on Monday ruled out paying slavery reparations as Jamaica prepared to submit a petition addressed to King Charles over the transatlantic slav…
Kiefer Sutherland said action roles are still central to his work, but the 60-year-old actor now relies more on braces and anti-inflammatory medicine than he did during his years on "24". Sutherland spoke to AFP on Saturday in Venice, where his new film "Fath…
Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto said at the Venice Film Festival that his Vietnam War film "Mr. Nelson, Did you Kill People?" is meant to make young people reject the idea of going to a real battlefield. The film, which premiered Friday at Venice, tells th…
A commemoration for convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic was held at a military facility in Belgrade on Saturday, two days before his planned burial in the Serbian capital. Around 300 people attended the ceremony, which was organised by an associa…
Ethiopian Miss World contestant Ruth Yirgalem Weldesilasie is using the pageant in Nha Trang, Vietnam, to speak about violence against women after her elder si…
Enthusiasts in Iceland are asking authorities to open the grave of poet and naturalist Jonas Hallgrimsson to check whether the remains buried there are really his. Hallgrimsson, described as a central figure in Icelandic literature and national romanticism, d…
Large crowds gathered in Belgrade on Monday for the funeral of convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic, whose public glorification by some Serb nationalists continues to divide the Balkans. Mladic died aged 84 after spending his final years serving a…
Students and campus figures have accused Argentina House in Paris of restricting residents' freedoms, while Paris city officials have asked France's foreign ministry to investigate the Argentina-run university residence. The residence is part of the Cite Univ…
Tunisian authorities detained journalist Mohamed Yousfi on Friday as he arrived for a radio interview, the programme host and the head of Tunisia's journalists' union said. Walid Ben Rhouma, the Express FM host, said Yousfi, editor-in-chief of the Alqatiba we…
The Srebrenica massacre of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Bosnian Serb forces in July 1995 followed years of siege and was later ruled a genocide by an international court. The history is again in focus before the September 7 funeral of former Bosnian…
Elena Zhemkova, the head of Russia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights group Memorial, told AFP she fears a fresh crackdown after September's legislative elections, including more arrests and people being sent to fight in Ukraine. Speaking in Amsterdam, Zhemko…
Thousands of people attended the funeral of convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic in Belgrade on Monday, drawing renewed European Union condemnation over the glorification of a man convicted of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Mlad…
India batter Smriti Mandhana has become the leading run-scorer in women’s international cricket after making 124 off 64 balls against Hong Kong in the Women’s Asia Cup in Dubai. Mandhana passed former India captain Mithali Raj, who had held the top mark with…
Taiwan said Friday it had provided temporary accommodation on humanitarian grounds to a Chinese national transferring through a Taiwanese airport, after ChinaAid said a Beijing lawyer for detained Zion Church leaders had arrived on the island seeking protecti…
AFP has listed five selected features from sub-Saharan Africa for republication, covering migration, culture, illegal mining, urban transport and colonial-era…
Six former plantation estates in Sao Tome and Principe, built on slavery and forced labour, have recently been added to UNESCO's World Heritage List, creating…
Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting said she considered retiring after winning Olympic gold in Paris, but chose to continue in part to answer those who questioned her…
In Myanmar's lethwei heartland of Hpa-an, more than 100 teenagers and young adults trained in the bareknuckle martial art as the country remained consumed by civil war. Lethwei, traditional Burmese boxing, allows headbutts and is fought with fists wrapped onl…
New York's Muslim communities are describing a changed city 25 years after the September 11 attacks, pointing to the election of Zohran Mamdani as the city's first Muslim mayor, public prayers in Times Square and new mosques, while saying Islamophobia persist…
Israeli athletes who were due to compete in the City of Derry Triathlon in Londonderry this weekend will no longer take part, race organisers said Thursday. North West Triathlon Club said it made strong representations after seeing four Israeli athletes on th…
The United Nations rights chief urged Sri Lanka to do more to end what he called entrenched impunity for war crimes and other abuses after the country's decade…
A Jerusalem cafe that had been picketed for weeks by observant Jews said Thursday it had agreed to close on the Sabbath, after protests by ultra-Orthodox Jews…
UN-appointed investigators urged Iran on Thursday to withdraw a draft bill that they said could expose journalists, academics, activists and others to up to 30…
Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladic's body arrived in Serbia on Thursday and was received with military honours after being returned from The Hague. The ca…
Rights groups said an Iranian court has sentenced Ali Zarei, a 27-year-old man blinded in one eye during Iran’s 2022 protests, to death after he returned from…
Norwegian People's Aid said Thursday it would end cooperation with the United States because it rejects conditions attached to US aid, a move it said would cut more than $40 million in funding and require around 1,700 job reductions. The Norwegian non-governm…
Gloria Steinem, the American journalist, author and activist who became one of the best-known figures of the feminist movement, has died at 92, Gloria's Founda…
Britain's Defence Secretary Wes Streeting urged LGBT military veterans dismissed or harmed under the former ban on their service to apply for compensation befo…
Liechtenstein's princely house said Thursday that Hereditary Prince Alois opposes a proposal to legalise abortion during the first three months of pregnancy, a…
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday he was glad Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had left the United States, after the couple moved back to Britain from the…
Gina Romero, the UN special rapporteur on freedom of assembly and association, voiced “grave concern” on Wednesday over Zambia's shrinking political space and called for the release of political detainees. President Hakainde Hichilema was sworn in for a secon…
A Glenlivet whisky advertisement invoking South Africa's 1956 anti-apartheid women's march has drawn backlash from families of women linked to the historic pro…
The Taliban government defended Afghanistan's ban on protests on Wednesday, saying the order complies with Islamic law after rights groups condemned it as an attempt to suppress dissent. The government introduced a rule last month saying that "all types of pr…
Kenyan journalist Alex Kiprotich was found nine hours after masked men reportedly seized him near Nakuru on Tuesday night, his employer The Standard said, prom…
George Clooney received a lifetime achievement award as the 83rd Venice Film Festival opened on September 2, after criticising the US government under Presiden…
LGBTQ people in Indonesia say they are living with growing fear as public attacks, hostile official language and proposed restrictions put more pressure on a c…
The Bayeux Tapestry will go on display in London from September 10, in its first exhibition in the city after a loan from the Bayeux Museum in Normandy. The a…
Several thousand Bosnian Serbs gathered in Banja Luka on Tuesday to pay tribute to Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander who died while serving a life sentence for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Mladic died on Thursday at…
A coalition of Ugandan and Kenyan activists on Tuesday blamed Kenya for the plight of Ugandan opposition figure Kizza Besigye, whose health is deteriorating as…
The World Food Programme said funding cuts are forcing it to halve the number of people it reaches with food aid in the West Bank, from 400,000 to 200,000 from September. Shaun Hughes, the UN agency's representative in the Palestinian territories, told report…
Most civilian victims of Afghanistan's 2001-2021 war have been left “without justice, reparation or even acknowledgement” of their suffering, the United Nations mission in Afghanistan said Tuesday. UNAMA said more than 40,000 civilians were killed and 77,000…