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The government describes the program as a way to support low-income families and promote social stability. Among those married were people who lost family members in violent attacks.
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Kosovo has held three elections in over two years. Albin Kurti’s ruling Vetevendosje is struggling to garner the two-thirds majority required to elect a president.
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Reports from Jerusalem suggest that Israeli authorities are taking over one of Islam’s holiest sites, the Al-Aqsa Mosque. If they do, experts say anything could happen, from war to terrorism to ending diplomatic ties.
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The government describes the program as a way to support low-income families and promote social stability. Among those married were people who lost family members in violent attacks.
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Kosovo has held three elections in over two years. Albin Kurti’s ruling Vetevendosje is struggling to garner the two-thirds majority required to elect a president.
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Reports from Jerusalem suggest that Israeli authorities are taking over one of Islam’s holiest sites, the Al-Aqsa Mosque. If they do, experts say anything could happen, from war to terrorism…
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A typhoon is lashing Japan’s south, causing injuries and blackouts. It is now headed for China, where ports have been closed in preparation.
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As climate change reshapes Indigenous territories across Brazil, a new generation is turning to culture and digital platforms to defend their lands and their future.
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World Ocean Assessment highlights urgent need for science and global action
In the wood-panelled rooms of New York’s storied Explorers Club, where portraits of pioneering adventurers line the walls, diplomats, scientists and ocean advocates gathered on Tuesday evening with a shared sense of urgency – and anticipation.
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Lebanon: Another peacekeeper dies in new attack
A UN peacekeeper serving in Lebanon died early Thursday after mortar fire on his position near Marjayoun in the country’s southeast, the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has announced.
Investor climate group closes down, blaming “limits” of shareholder activism
In 2021, amidst a wave of corporate net-zero targets, a campaign group called Investors for Paris Compliance was set up in British Columbia, aiming to use investor pressure to hold Canadian companies to account on their climate promises. In the five years since, the group has notched up several wins: pressuring National Bank into providing […]
Indonesia’s failing Just Energy Transition Partnership is a cautionary tale
Freddie Daley is a research associate with the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex. Charlie Lawrie is a postdoctoral associate at the University of Sussex. In December 2025, Indonesia quietly abandoned plans to close the Cirebon-1 coal power plant. This was no ordinary power plant. Cirebon-1 was supposed to be the […]
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We will not be stunned into silence
In early 2025 photojournalist Marios Lolos was covering a demonstration in Athens about the Tempi rail tragedy when a police officer threw a stun grenade in his direction. It hit the left side of his head, exploding next to him. The impact resulted in him suffering permanent hearing loss and a head injury. “Had it exploded in front of my head and not a little bit later, we wouldn’t be speaking at the moment,” Lolos tells me, […]
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Greece: Dangerous policing tactics have turned peaceful protests into battlefields
Greek police frequently use unnecessary or excessive force against peaceful protesters and journalists resulting in serious physical and psychological injuries, Amnesty International said in a report published today, as it called for a ban on the use of stun grenades in the policing of protests. Protests are not battlefields: Patterns of unlawful use of force by police and impunity in Greece finds that these deeply disturbing abuses are underpinned by protest legislation that […]
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Unjust one-year prison sentence for activist Ahmed Douma emblematic of Egypt’s ongoing arbitrary detention crisis
Responding to the news that Egyptian activist and writer Ahmed Douma has been convicted and sentenced to one year in prison following an unfair trial, Amnesty International’s Regional Researcher, Mahmoud Shalaby said: “The renewed unjust imprisonment after an unfair trial of Ahmed Douma is a devastating assault on the right to freedom of expression. The weaponization of the criminal justice system against Ahmed Douma and other activists lays bare president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s government’s relentless campaign to crush peaceful dissent and restrict civic space. “Having already […]
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China: ‘Heartless’ ban on Tiananmen Mothers visiting cemetery signals escalating repression
Responding to reports that Chinese authorities have barred the mothers of protesters killed in the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown from visiting their loved ones’ graves on this week’s anniversary of the atrocity, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director Sarah Brooks said: “Banning the relatives of people killed in the Tiananmen crackdown from visiting their loved ones’ graves […]
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Belgium: Amnesty International joins complaint against FedEx for unlawful arms transit to Israel
Amnesty International has today added its name to a complaint filed against FedEx Belgium alleging the unlawful transit of arms, including parts for F-35 fighter jets which have been used extensively by Israel during its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. The human rights organization has joined a coalition of civil society organizations, […]
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Tanzania’s president visits Russia amid frayed Western ties
President Samia Suluhu Hassan is on a three-day visit to Russia, traveling with a business delegation. Relations with Western nations have cratered in recent months amid criticism of Tanzania’s handling of dissent.