Civilian casualties in Ukraine reached their highest monthly level in July, with more people killed and injured than at any time since March 2022, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the country, HRMMU, said in an update on Thursday.
As tensions triggered by the US-Iran war continue to ripple across the Middle East, the Security Council held an open debate Thursday on Yemen, where escalating deadly military clashes are worsening an already fragile humanitarian situation amid fears that recent Houthi missile strikes on Saudi Arabia and commercial vessels could threaten the 2022 truce between […]
In the occupied West Bank, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, appealed on Thursday to Israeli authorities to help Palestinian families trapped in their homes by settlers for days, amid an intensifying campaign to seize their land.
In Lebanon, the currency keeps losing value, but weapons money never runs short. In Senegal, families choose between a stalled economy and the wage an armed group offers their sons. At weddings across the Bekaa Valley, celebratory gunfire is so normal it barely registers. And online, a generation is being recruited into militarised ideas of […]
A new draft text to revive deadlocked UN plastics treaty talks does not include specific measures on managing runaway plastic production, a growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, drawing criticism from some countries and campaigners that ambition for the global pact is shrinking. After diplomats met in Nairobi early in July for the first time […]
Russia’s supreme court has banned the anti-war opposition party Yabloko from September’s parliamentary elections. What does this mean for the election campaign, opponents of the war and for the political mood in Russia?
Amid growing tensions and security risks at the Horn of Africa, Eritrea, with its strategically important coastal points on the Red Sea and a perceived lack of conflict, is emerging as important player in the region.
A playful tribute to Mozart has turned into a whodunit after 210 gold-colored figures disappeared from one of Austria’s busiest tourist spots. The mass theft forced organizers to end the outdoor display early.
Because of the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, Iraq cannot export enough oil to fund the country’s huge public sector. Protests have already started. Will the Iran war destabilize Iraq again?
A quarter of a century after the Ohrid Framework Agreement ended North Macedonia’s 2001 conflict, analysts warn that peace between ethnic communities remains fragile.
