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Three Portuguese environmental groups, Ultimo Recurso, Quercus and Sciaeno, filed a legal action in court Monday against the Portuguese government in response to the perceived lack of effort to enact legislation created to tackle climate change. According to the National Energy and Climate Plan 2030, Portugal was to decarbonize the economy, promote sustainable mobility and [...]

Syria’s opposition government said Saturday that government forces shelled the northwestern village of Qaqfin, located in Idlib, Syria. The shelling resulted in the death of ten civilians, drawing further attention to allegations of human rights violations committed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government.  In a press release, the Syrian Opposition Coalition (SOC) revealed [...]

The conflict that erupted in April between the Sudanese National Army and the Rapid Support Forces wreaked havoc on Sudan, and has ultimately taken an appalling toll. Thousands were killed and millions displaced. Buildings were burned and infrastructure lay in ruins, instilling fear of a spiraling descent into a full-scale civil war. Even before the warfare [...]

A Dhaka court on Sunday ordered the arrest of Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, secretary-general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), and dozens of members of the BNP after a major opposition protest held on Saturday in Dhaka. The demonstration, with over 100,000 protesters, spawned clashes between protesters and police. A police officer was killed during the [...]

Editors’ note: On Oct. 7, Hamas militants staged a surprise attack on Israel, as a result of which at least 1,400 Israelis were killed and hundreds were taken hostage. In the days since, Israeli forces have launched a counter-offensive in Gaza that has taken thousands of Palestinian lives, according to local reports. As tensions continue [...]

Last month, the self-declared independent republic of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) lowered its flag, opting to dissolve all state institutions following a months-long blockade by Azerbaijani forces that brought about an acute humanitarian crisis among its predominantly ethnic Armenian population. The republic’s demise was the culmination of decades of tension and periods of conflict between Azerbaijan [...]

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) spokesman Andrea Tenenti said Sunday that a rocket shell struck a UNIFIL peacekeeping operation location in southern Lebanon but no one was injured. On Sunday, Lebanese Hezbollah militants attacked Israeli army posts and a village near the northern border. Israel responded with airstrikes in Lebanon as UN peacekeepers [...]

An Israeli airstrike on Friday resulted in the death of Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and wounded six others, prompting a UN spokesperson to call for an investigation into the strike. Abdallah, a videographer for Reuters, was covering Israeli activity in southern Lebanon when an Israeli anti-tank shell landed near where Abdallah was. Two other Reuters journalists, [...]

The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said on Monday that Russian occupiers tortured Ukrainians so brutally that some of their victims died, and forced families to listen as they raped women next door in their latest findings from the field, in its latest update. The UN-mandated body found widespread and systematic use of [...]

Azerbaijan launched a military operation in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh on Tuesday, prompting humanitarian concerns from international observers, including the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Nagorno-Karabakh is internationally recognized as a part of Azerbaijan, but it is also home to the Armenian-aligned breakaway state of Artsakh. Azerbaijan accused Armenian forces of planting [...]