Lebanon 14 January 2026 gnada Thu, 01/15/2026 – 03:33 Lebanon Thu, 01/15/2026 – 12:00 14 January 2026 A senior Hizbollah official said that disarming the group beyond southern Lebanon would be the “the biggest crime committed by the state”. He also warned: “The path taken by the Lebanese government and state institutions will lead Lebanon […]
Tehran 14 January 2026 gnada Thu, 01/15/2026 – 03:34 Tehran Thu, 01/15/2026 – 12:00 14 January 2026 Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted: “Israel has always sought to drag the U.S. into fighting wars on its behalf…. With blood on our streets, Israel is explicitly gloating about having ‘armed protestors with live weapons’ and ‘this is […]
Washington 14 January 2026 gnada Thu, 01/15/2026 – 03:36 Washington Thu, 01/15/2026 – 12:00 14 January 2026 Citing “very important sources on the other side”, President Trump remarked: “We have been told that the killing in Iran is stopping, it has stopped… and there’s no plan for executions”. Asked about the implications for U.S. strikes, […]
Yemen 14 January 2026 gnada Thu, 01/15/2026 – 03:38 Bab al-Mandab, Yemen Thu, 01/15/2026 – 12:00 14 January 2026 The UN Security Council voted to extend the secretary-general’s monthly reporting on Houthi attacks in the Red Sea for six months. The resolution passed with 13 votes in favour and two abstentions. A U.S. diplomat, welcoming […]
Saada 14 January 2026 gnada Thu, 01/15/2026 – 03:40 Saada, Yemen Thu, 01/15/2026 – 12:00 14 January 2026 The UN Security Council voted to extend the secretary-general’s monthly reporting on Houthi attacks in the Red Sea for six months. The resolution passed with 13 votes in favour and two abstentions. A U.S. diplomat, welcoming the […]
Global warming has hit “a milestone” as average temperatures have exceeded the critical 1.5C threshold for the longest period yet, European scientists warned on Wednesday. According to the EU’s Earth observation service Copernicus, 2025 ranks as the third-warmest year on record, behind 2023 and 2024, with global temperatures averaging more than the Paris Agreement’s most […]
Ahead of attending the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, which begins on 19 January, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, said: “The ‘spirit of dialogue’, the theme for this year’s meeting in Davos, has been painfully and increasingly absent from international affairs of late. President Trump’s first year back in office has seen the United States withdraw […]
By Joe Freeman, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher, and Aung Naing Soe, Burmese journalist and filmmaker One morning last November, Bee Kyal’s phone pinged with a message about a fighter jet taking off from a military base in central Myanmar’s rural Sagaing region. Reacting quickly, the resistance fighter picked up a walkie-talkie and shouted into it, […]
In response to the Uganda Communication Commission’s (UCC) decision to indefinitely suspend internet services and certain mobile phone services ahead of tomorrow’s high stakes general election, Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s East and Southern Africa Regional Director said: “This indefinite internet shutdown is a brazen attack on the right to freedom of expression which includes access to information. It is especially alarming coming as it does just before a crucial election already marred by massive repression and an unprecedented crackdown on opposition parties and dissenting voices. “Blanket shutdowns disrupt people’s mobility, livelihoods and their ability to access […]
Verified videos and credible information from eyewitnesses in Iran reveal mass unlawful killings committed on an unprecedented scale amidst an ongoing internet shutdown imposed by the authorities since 8 January to conceal their crimes, Amnesty International said today. The organization is urging UN Member states to recognize that systemic and continuing impunity for the crimes […]
