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It marks the third large-scale combined strike in October on energy facilities in civilian areas – leading to major power outages.At least two more civilians were killed – with 23...
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Addressing the UN General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan highlighted escalating armed clashes, political detentions, and widespread human rights violations, calling for coordinated efforts to safeguard...
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Speaking in Geneva, she said the world was facing “declining respect for human rights and multilateralism”, with conflicts, debt, and shrinking development assistance threatening to reverse hard-won gains.The 38-member economic...
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Vatican City — 28 October 2025. At the 60th anniversary of the landmark Second Vatican Council declaration Nostra Aetate, Pope Leo XIV reaffirmed that the message of interreligious dialogue, respect,...
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The Russian military’s actions amount to two crimes against humanity, the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine’s report states – firstly of “murder and of forcible transfer of population” and secondly,...
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Presenting the Commission of Inquiry’s latest report, Navi Pillay said the findings were based on a legal analysis conducted under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime...
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Mariana Katzarova said in a new report to the UN General Assembly that over the past three years “thousands have been imprisoned on politically motivated charges, including treason, espionage, extremism and terrorism,...
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The agency has received reports of summary executions of civilians trying to escape what was the last Sudanese military government stronghold of El Fasher – with indications of ethnic motivations for...
Europe
On 25 October 2025, sixty‑five countries signed the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime in Hanoi, marking the first universal treaty to combat offences such as ransomware, online child abuse and the non‑consensual sharing of intimate...
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Ajith Sunghay said on Tuesday that “settler violence has skyrocketed in scale and frequency, with the acquiescence, support, and in many cases participation, of Israeli security forces – and always...
