The International Organization for Migration (IOM) warned Tuesday that a $59.8 million funding shortfall threatens efforts to expand Ebola surveillance beyond official checkpoints. The agency said 95 percent of the 71 cases identified through IOM-supported screening along transit routes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were detected on informal routes. The warning followed [...]

The chief prosecutor of Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal said Tuesday that former prime minister Sheikh Hasina is ineligible for a passport under Bangladeshi law and would have to return from India through extradition. Hasina, whom the tribunal sentenced to death in absentia last year, has said she plans to return in December to surrender in [...]

Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) on Tuesday unanimously moved to fine Meta’s Brazilian subsidiary 7.5 million reais (USD $1.3 million) for failing to fully comply with orders aimed at ensuring equal treatment of the two campaigns in October’s presidential runoff. The case began in October after President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva’s campaign coalition alleged [...]

The spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Thameen Al-Kheetan, on Tuesday urged a halt to the continued persecution and harassment of journalists in Egypt, emphasizing that the right to freedom of expression must be respected. All six journalists working for Matsadash, a fact-checking website, currently remain detained. The detained reporters are Mohamed [...]

Officials at US-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine announced on Wednesday that both sides have agreed to a large exchange of prisoners of war, following peace talks in Abu Dhabi this week. US Special Envoy Jared Kushner and Ukrainian Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service Rustem Umerov in a press conference announced that the talks [...]

Editor’s note: Thursday marks 35 years since Indonesian troops opened fire on pro-independence demonstrators in Dili. Scholar Lia Kent explains why state commemorations haven’t ended many families’ search for their dead. November 12 of this year marks 35 years since the brutal murder of around 250 to 271 peaceful, pro-independence demonstrators in East Timor (the [...]

An Alaska Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied a request by Democratic US Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign for records identifying voters whose absentee ballots had been flagged for rejection, and explaining why. Judge Thomas Matthews ruled that the Alaska Division of Elections could not reasonably produce and redact the requested information while it was [...]

Nine members of the Kennedy family on Tuesday asked a federal judge to let them join two lawsuits seeking to block the Trump administration’s proposed triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery. They say the 250-foot monument would obstruct historic views and cast shadows over their relatives’ gravesites, including the site of President John F. Kennedy’s [...]

442 miles. That is how far I drove round trip in a single day to exercise my right to vote in the 2026 midterm election. I traveled from Macon, Georgia, to Greenville, South Carolina, determined to make my voice heard. What I expected to be a straightforward trip home became an experience that reminded me [...]