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NGO documents accounts of atrocities during paramilitary force’s April assault on the North Darfur facility.Rights group Amnesty International has called for a war crimes investigation into an assault by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a displaced persons camp in Sudan’s North Darfur state earlier this year.A report issued by the NGO on Wednesday documents accounts of atrocities committed by the RSF during a large-scale attack on the Zamzam camp. The RSF has been accused of indiscriminate killing and mass rape, among other crimes, numerous times amid its conflict with the military government of Sudan that has been running…

Tunisia opposition says charges are fabricated, as police enforce a five-year prison sentence.Police in Tunisia have arrested prominent opposition figure Ayachi Hammami at his home to enforce a five-year prison sentence after an appeals court upheld convictions against dozens of the administration’s political opponents on charges of conspiracy against state security.The court last week confirmed jail terms ranging from four to 45 years for opposition leaders, business figures and lawyers accused of plotting to overthrow President Kais Saied, who has conducted a crackdown on opposition figures for years.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Hong Kong residents demand answers…

An Israeli drone strike in Khan Younis, Gaza also killed photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi.Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian teenagers in separate incidents in Hebron and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.The Israeli army said 17-year-old Muhannad al-Zughair was shot dead in the Abu Daajan area of Hebron after what it claimed was a ramming attack that injured two soldiers.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Sudan’s paramilitary RSF claims control of key city of Babnusalist 2 of 4Trump’s boat bombings: How the US has long used ‘double-tap’ strikeslist 3 of 4Was ex-Honduras leader Hernandez victim of Biden ‘set-up’, as…

US is pushing for a non-aggression pact between Israel, Syria, but Netanyahu has shown little appetite for compromise.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said an agreement with Syria is achievable, outlining expectations that Syrian authorities establish a demilitarised buffer zone stretching from Damascus to Jabal al-Sheikh, which Israel currently occupies.Netanyahu’s comments on Tuesday came a day after US President Donald Trump said he wanted both Syria and Israel to “have a long and prosperous relationship together”.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4AI threatens to widen inequality among states: UNlist 2 of 4Sudan’s paramilitary RSF claims control of key…

Analysts and a human rights group say Israel’s genocide in Gaza has not stopped, despite the ceasefire.On October 10, 2025, a ceasefire was supposed to have put an end to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.But two months on, Israel has violated the ceasefire more than 500 times, killing at least 356 Palestinians, and sending the total death toll in Gaza above 70,000.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3The illusion of Western peacemakinglist 2 of 3Photos: Pope prays at site of 2020 Beirut port explosionlist 3 of 3Is entertainment making us better, or quietly reshaping us for the worse?end…

A look at corruption cases involving Israeli prime ministers.Benjamin Netanyahu is the first sitting prime minister in Israel to stand trial after being accused of corruption, but he is hardly the only one to have been mired in such scandals.Nearly all Israeli prime ministers since 1996, including Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Olmert, alongside Netanyahu, have been investigated on charges of corruption, as have several other cabinet ministers, Knesset members, and mayors.Here is an overview of the major corruption scandals in Israel over the past two decades.Benjamin NetanyahuThe sitting prime minister of Israel was indicted in three cases –…

Capping off symbolic three-day visit, the Pontiff urged Lebanese unity and the pursuit of peace and justice.Pope Leo XIV has offered prayers at the site of the 2020 Beirut port blast, one of the final stops in his three-day visit to Lebanon.The Catholic leader prayed silently and lit a lamp on Tuesday morning at a monument to the more than 220 people that were killed and 6,500 injured in the explosion. The United States-born pontiff has urged peaceful coexistence across the Middle East during his inaugural trip abroad.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Pope Leo visits Blue Mosque in…

The reported attack on the Midvolga-2 comes days after Ukraine hit two other Russian-flagged ships in the Black Sea.A Russian-flagged tanker in the Black Sea has reported being attacked off the Turkish coast, the third such vessel to have been targeted within a week.The Turkish Directorate General of Maritime Affairs said on Tuesday that the Midvolga-2 had reported coming under attack about 130km (80 miles) from land.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Trump’s Russian oil waiver gives Orban a win at Hungary’s expenselist 2 of 4Russia’s ‘shadow vessels’ using false flags to skirt sanctions, report sayslist 3 of…

The fall of the city, a gateway to western Sudan’s Darfur region, over which the RSF recently seized control, could have huge effect on the war.The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has refuted a claim by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that it has seized control of the West Kordofan town of Babnusa.Sudan’s military government said in a statement issued on Tuesday that it had repelled an attack by the RSF. The paramilitary outfit had claimed the previous day to have taken full control of Babnusa, a key city in the vast central Sudanese region of West Kordofan.Recommended Stories list…

Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri allegedly committed serious crimes at Libya’s Mitiga Prison from 2015 to 2020, The Hague-based ICC says.The International Criminal Court (ICC) says it has taken Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri, who is wanted for allegedly committing crimes against humanity and war crimes in Libya between 2015 and 2020, into custody.El Hishri was “surrendered to the custody” of the court in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Monday, by authorities in Germany, where he was arrested on July 16 this year.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy released from prison pending appeallist…