The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released a new report Wednesday finding that more than one in five households surveyed in Lebanon said their children went to bed hungry in the two weeks before July 2026 interviews. The report, An Enduring Nightmare, documents the toll on children’s access to food, healthcare, and education in an active conflict zone, drawing [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday condemned the detention of South Sudanese political commentator Samuel Peter Oyay, who has been held in a UAE prison for one year without charge. Joey Shea, senior UAW researcher for HRW spoke of UAE’s policies of repressing dissent, stating: The UAE government’s zero-tolerance policy toward peaceful criticism is increasingly [...]
The trial of Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a 67-year-old Haitian American pastor, began Monday in the US District Court in Miami. Sanon is accused of helping orchestrate the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. The trial is opening more than five years after Moïes was shot dead at his private residence near Port-au-Prince. Sanon faces eight [...]
Thailand’s Constitutional Court on Monday dismissed a challenge to the country’s general election held in February, holding that barcodes and QR codes printed on ballots did not violate the constitutional guarantee of a secret ballot. Section 83 of Thailand’s 2017 Constitution requires that members of the House of Representatives be elected by “direct and secret [...]
Amnesty International on Tuesday condemned Malian soldiers and members of the Russian private military company Wagner Group for perpetration of war crimes, including the murder and torture of civilians. Commenting on the need for accountability and justice for the victims of war crimes committed by Malian soldiers and allied forces, Marceau Sivieude, Amnesty International’s regional [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume deportations under its third-country removal policy, while agreeing to hear arguments on the policy’s legality in December. In January 2025, upon returning to office for his second term as president, Donald Trump announced a series of programs aimed at cracking [...]
The Council of the European Union on Monday imposed restrictive measures against 10 Russian officials for their role in the exclusion of Yabloko, also known as the Russian United Democratic Party, from the 2026 Russian legislative elections, saying the move undermines both the rule of law and democracy in Russia. In an EU statement regarding [...]
District Attorney Matthew Van Houten in Tompkins County, NY, announced on Monday that his office is reopening its investigation into gang rape allegations after a lawsuit against the accused men, the Chi Phi fraternity, the university, and others was filed on September 16. In October 2024, the victim reported to campus security that she was [...]
The Federal High Court of Nigeria in Abuja on Monday ordered the agency tasked with regulating oil imports to issue import licenses to three oil marketing companies despite ongoing claims that continued imports hamper domestic oil production. The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) had previously refused to reissue fuel import licenses to [...]
UN Special Rapporteurs Reem Alsalem and Ai Kihara-Hunt said in a joint statement Monday that they have received reports of children in France who allege sexual abuse by a father still being ordered into visitation with his offspring during criminal investigations, and of mothers who resist such orders facing prosecution or restrictions on their parental authority. [...]
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