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At least 60 Orthodox Christians were killed in separate attacks on October 20 and 24 in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, church officials reported. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s holy synod on Monday described the killings as “extremely tragic cruelty and suffering inflicted on our citizens”...

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has vowed that dictatorship and fascism will never return to Brazil after winning a historic fourth term in power by defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro. “This is God’s work – and it’s thanks to all of you,” Lula told tens of...

Russia committed war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine by intentionally attacking energy infrastructure, leaving millions of people without electricity and heat in freezing temperatures, a UN-backed inquiry reported. The inquiry also found evidence that Russia recruited men from 29...

Jordan has carried out air strikes in Syria in “retaliation” for last week’s deadly church attack, killing at least seven people, including three children, according to Syrian authorities. The attacks on Monday prompted Syria to close its main crossing with Jordan. The Jordanian Armed Forces said in...

At least five people have been killed in Gaza and more than a dozen have been wounded in Israeli ground and air attacks. Four Palestinians, including a young girl, were killed on Monday in an Israeli air attack on a camp for displaced people in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, according to...

Israel has committed crimes against humanity, including “extermination,” in the occupied West Bank, United Nations-mandated investigators have reported. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory said on Monday that the Israeli government and its...

Senior Sudanese commanders implicated in a “campaign of rape” have been targeted by the UK on the first anniversary of a mass atrocity that saw tens of thousands of civilians killed over several days. A year after the fall of El Fasher, the British government said it had sanctioned military leaders...

The long-serving leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, has conceded defeat, ushering in a seismic political shift after a historic election that saw the increasingly authoritarian leader pitted against a student-led movement that had spent two years protesting against his government. Vučić pointed to...

The Israeli military forced around 2,000 Palestinians to leave their homes in Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Israeli defense minister Israel Katz confirmed Saturday in an interview with public broadcaster, Kan – a day after a Palestinian attack killed two Israeli soldiers. "They will not be...

After nearly six years in detention, Aung San Suu Kyi's first words to her son were a question about his health. "And then I said all the family was sending their love and asked after her health," said Kim Aris, who spoke by phone with his 81-year-old mother on Thursday, their first direct...