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When 19-year-old Stephane Kulimushi looks around the basketball court in Kampala where he trains young refugees, he sees more than players.
Governments at the annual oceans summit reaffirmed commitments to protect key marine ecosystems including the high seas and coral reefs, but observers said funding barriers and polluting projects are hampering progress on putting them into practice. At the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa this week, some 3,000 delegates – including government officials, scientists, business […]
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Eva Maria Michelmann vanished in Syria in January as government forces advanced on Kurdish fighters in the northeast. The German government last week said it was working to get her home.
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When 19-year-old Stephane Kulimushi looks around the basketball court in Kampala where he trains young refugees, he sees more than players.
Governments at the annual oceans summit reaffirmed commitments to protect key marine ecosystems including the high seas and coral reefs, but observers said funding barriers and polluting projects are hampering…
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Eva Maria Michelmann vanished in Syria in January as government forces advanced on Kurdish fighters in the northeast. The German government last week said it was working to get her…
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah group has claimed that the US-Iran peace deal is a "great victory." The group, which is opposed to Israel, has certainly been bolstered by the deal. But what…
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Opposition leader Domingos Simoes Pereira remains under house arrest months after the Guinea-Bissau coup, deepening a political crisis and raising tensions with international partners.
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Myanmar: Junta Atrocities Surge 5 Years since Coup
Click to expand Image Villagers extinguish a fire that engulfed a house after a Myanmar military airstrike, Tabayin, Myanmar, November 13, 2025. © 2025 Swe Lin Tun/SOPA Images/Sipa USA via AP Photo (Tokyo) – Myanmar’s military junta has committed widespread repression and abuse in every facet of life in the country since seizing power on February […]
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Sexual Violence Survivors in Haiti Left Without Care
Click to expand Image A woman with her two daughters walks down a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 2024. © 2024 Nathalye Cotrino Villarreal/Human Rights Watch Sexual violence by criminal groups is not new in Haiti: Human Rights Watch has documented how criminal groups have used widespread sexual violence in recent years to terrorize communities and assert […]
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Uganda: Post Election Assault on Political Opposition
Click to expand Image Musician and opposition candidate Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine during a press conference in Kampala, Uganda, October 1, 2019. © 2019 Sipa via AP Images (Nairobi) – Ugandan authorities have intensified attacks on the country’s main opposition party since presidential elections took place on January 15, 2026, Human Rights Watch said today. […]
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Budapest Mayor Charged for Holding Pride March
Click to expand Image Budapest mayor Gergely Karacsony, center, addresses participants at the Pride march in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, June 28, 2025. © 2025 AP Photo/Rudolf Karancsi This week, prosecutors filed criminal charges against Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony for organizing the city’s 2025 Pride march. They are seeking a criminal fine and proposing the case be […]
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UK’s Keir Starmer visits China as Beijing courts US allies
Keir Starmer has arrived in China for the first trip by a British prime minister since 2018. He’s the latest of a string of Western leaders to visit recently, with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz soon to follow.
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Budapest mayor charged over Pride parade
Prosecutors in Hungary are moving against Budapest’s mayor, Gergely Karacsony, after last year’s Pride went ahead despite a police ban. The case is being handled without a court hearing and as elections approach.
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Sicily landslide forces evacuation of 1,500
A landslide in southern Sicily has homes balanced at the edge of a cliff following days of rain. Officials have said some people won’t be able to return to living in their homes.
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Hungary: Cabinet member uses vulgar slur to insult Roma
Transportation Minister Janos Lazar says Hungary doesn’t need foreign workers and crudely joked that Roma should clean dirty toilets in their stead. Will his comments cost Viktor Orban’s party in upcoming elections?
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Inside the Philippines’ struggle for rural health care
The Philippines’ "doctors to the barrios" model shows how workforce shortages, intersected with governance, financing and system design, reveal why rural care remains fragile despite years of reforms.
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Washington 28 January 2026
Washington 28 January 2026 gnada Wed, 01/28/2026 – 23:52 Washington Wed, 01/28/2026 – 12:00 28 January 2026 President Trump warned that “a massive armada is heading to Iran… it is ready, willing and able to rapidly fulfil its mission, with speed and violence, if necessary”. He added: “Hopefully Iran will quickly “come to the table” […]