Children's rights are being increasingly eroded by the rise in armed conflict around the world, including the wars in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine, aid group…
Colombian guerrillas fighting the government and rival armed groups on July 16 threatened a major UN biodiversity summit to be held later this year in…
Police fired tear gas and water cannon against dozens of demonstrators in Kenya's capital Nairobi on July 16, as scattered rallies across the country called…
Kyiv and Prague have agreed to launch joint production of assault rifles and ammunition components inside Ukraine, the countries' prime ministers said on July 16…
Serbia's government on July 16 said operations can restart at a disputed lithium mining project, days after a top court ruling overturned a 2022 cancellation…
A former Kosovo rebel commander was found guilty of war crimes on July 16 and sentenced to 18 years behind bars for abuses and murder…
North Macedonia turned to air support from abroad on July 16, as firefighters struggled to contain a string of blazes across the country amid a…
Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris condemned violent anti-immigration clashes on July 15 at a planned asylum-seeker housing facility in Dublin as "reprehensible", as 15 were…
Some 2,000 police were deployed on July 15 to ten favelas in Rio de Janeiro to crack down on conflict between narcos and militias, authorities…
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has ordered top EU officials to skip a series of meetings in Hungary amid ire over Prime Minister Viktor…
Mali on July 15 jailed an ally of an influential imam critical of the ruling junta for "opposing the legitimate authorities", a judicial source said,…
A Libyan airline's commercial director has been arrested in an investigation into flying illegal migrants who intended to enter the United States to Nicaragua, the…
A wildfire raging in a seaside tourist area in western Turkey killed three people, the provincial governor said on July 15, the latest in a…
Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates reached an agreement allowing for the resumption of travel between the two countries, Nigeria's information minister said on Juy…
More than 60 children in El Salvador have been arbitrarily detained, tortured and beaten since the government declared a state of emergency over two years…
The United Nations' International Seabed Authority (ISA) met on July 15 to consider new rules allowing firms to extract minerals from the ocean floor, despite…
Another 200 Kenyan police officers have left for Haiti under a UN-backed mission to try to quell rampant gang violence in the troubled Caribbean nation,…
Donald Trump called on Americans July 14 to stand united after he was injured in an assassination attempt – a shocking incident that opened a…
Millions of Rwandans began voting in presidential and parliamentary elections on July 15, with the African nation's leader Paul Kagame set to cruise to victory…
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa on July 14 launched a long-awaited process of reconciliation over notorious 1980s massacres by government troops that claimed tens of thousands…
Kenyan police said July 15 they had arrested a "serial killer" suspect who had confessed to murdering 42 women before dumping their dismembered bodies in…
Syrians in government-held areas were voting July 15 in their fourth parliamentary election since civil war erupted in 2011, a poll expected to keep President…
Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum on July 14 announced he appointed his son, the emirate's crown prince, as defence minister of the United…
Russia on July 14 said it had captured another village in south-eastern Ukraine as it continues to make battlefield gains in the conflict that is…
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori -- aging and legally embattled -- will stand in the South American country's 2026 elections, his daughter announced July 14.…
