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Beijing accused the United States of “pressuring other countries” to curb trade, following media reports that the Trump administration will use tariff relief as leverage to push nations to scale back their economic ties with China.

A few recent months have been difficult for Oleksandr Markushyn, the mayor of Irpin. He has been under house arrest for almost three months, having spent more than a week in a pre-trial detention centre before that. The mayor’s problems were caused by the accusation about the organization of illegal trips abroad, made by Volodymyr Karpliuk, a famous builder.

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, died on Easter Monday at the age of 88 after battling a serious bout of double pneumonia that he appeared to have conquered.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called for an Easter truce to pause fighting in the Ukraine war, but the proposal was quickly dismissed by his Ukrainian counterpart who said Russian attack drones were in the air even as Putin spoke.

China’s government has arrested dozens of people in Tibetan areas since 2021 for politically motived phone and internet-related offenses, Human Rights Watch said today. Tibetan journalists in exile report that these arrests typically target Tibetans accused of keeping “banned content” on their phone or contacting people outside China, including relatives.

Eleven years ago, Russian authorities illegally occupied Crimea. Since then, the peninsula According to our data, as of 2024, Crimea has recorded the highest number of politically motivated criminal and administrative cases, as well as the highest rate of politically motivated detentions per 100,000 people compared to any Russian region. Since 2014, we have documented 349 individuals prosecuted in politically motivated criminal cases in Crimea and Sevastopol. This number is higher only in Moscow, where the population is five times that of Crimea. Many of those targeted by Russian authorities are Crimean Tatars. Beyond criminal and administrative prosecutions, local residents have also faced other forms of repression, including forced disappearances and torture.

European Union leaders will consider imposing 25 percent tariffs on a range of US imports, including steel, clothes, and food, but not bourbon or other alcoholic drinks, following US President Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on imports from the EU.

One IDF officer said that not only are Israeli troops killing military-age males, "we're killing their wives, their children, their cats, their dogs. We're destroying their houses and pissing on their graves."

A team of legal experts, including renowned human rights barrister Michael Mansfield KC, are lodging an extensively researched 240-page report (see summary) with the War Crimes Team at London’s Metropolitan Police, on behalf of The Public Interest Law Centre (PILC) and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR).

"The missile struck an area right next to residential buildings — hitting a playground and ordinary streets," Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.

The US imposed sanctions on Hong Kong’s departing police chief and five other officials on Monday, saying they had undermined the semi-autonomous city’s “protected rights and freedoms”, and warned of additional visa restrictions for Chinese officials blocking “reciprocal access” to Tibet.

China said Friday that it will impose reciprocal 34% tariffs on all imports from the United States from April 10, making good on a promise to strike back after US President Donald Trump escalated a global trade war.

The Iranian authorities are preparing to inflict the cruel and irreversible punishment of finger amputation against three prisoners as early as 11 April, following their torture-tainted convictions in unfair trials, Amnesty International warned today. The organization is calling on the international community to urgently press the Iranian authorities to end this spectacle of brutality. All Iranian officials responsible for ordering and/or carrying out these acts of torture must be criminally investigated and prosecuted.

France this week warned that failure to reach a nuclear agreement with Iran could lead to war, further raising tensions in an already volatile region.

The Constitutional Court of Korea ruled on April 4, 2025, to uphold the impeachment of South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk-yeol, and remove him from office for imposing martial law on December 3, 2024.

A new corruption allegation is rocking Israeli politics intertwining allegations of bribery, media manipulation, and high-level government interference.

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Kyiv’s assault on Kursk in August 2024 took Russia by surprise. But Russia’s ongoing retaking of the Kursk region may remove a bargaining chip for Ukraine in the talks to end the war. As an additional weigh in the balance, Justice Info has calculated that Russia has put on trial at least 67 Ukrainian soldiers captured in Kursk, who were sentenced to between 14 and 26 years in prison.

American doctors who volunteered in Gaza report witnessing a disturbing pattern of children being shot by Israeli snipers.

Russia’s most infamous mercenary company, the now-defunct Wagner Group, is notorious for many things: ruthless fighting prowess, brutal war crimes, the failed mutiny by its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin -– and the plane crash that killed him two months later.

As civil war rages in Sudan, a surge in gold production is helping finance and arm the warring factions. Most of the mining is done on a small scale by villagers who process the gold using mercury and cyanide, posing serious threats to their health and to the environment.

The Gaza Project is a collaboration involving over 40 journalists from 12 media organizations, coordinated by Forbidden Stories, investigating the attacks on journalists in Gaza. It also includes reporting that continues the work of journalists who can no longer carry it out.

HD Hyundai machinery has been widely used in demolitions of Palestinian-owned structures in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), according to new visual and testimonial evidence documented by Amnesty International Korea and local human rights groups.

Western Australia’s child protection authorities are disproportionately removing children from Aboriginal families and placing them in out-of-home care, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Children continue to be removed from their homes nearly two decades after the Australian government issued an apology to First Nations peoples for forcibly removing their children.

The report documents Israel's use of "white phosphorus bombs" in its war against Lebanon since the events of October 7, 2023; which led to the destruction of agricultural crops and caused health damage to civilians.

In an interview with Fox News on March 23, U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff discussed negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, expressing his optimism about Russian President Vladimir Putin's commitment to peace.

Russia has lost 904,760 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on March 24.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says the official death toll has topped 50,000 as Israel continues to bombard and blockade the territory, but it is widely believed the actual death toll is far higher. On Sunday, Israeli forces bombed a surgical unit at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis — the largest functioning hospital in Gaza. The attack killed two people, including Ismail Barhoum, a member of Hamas’s political bureau. Hamas said he was at the hospital for treatment for injuries suffered in an earlier Israeli strike. A 16-year-old boy was also killed in the hospital attack. The American trauma surgeon Feroze Sidhwa was at Nasser Hospital at the time of the attack and said the teenager killed was his patient.

On 25 February 2024, US airman Aaron Bushnell self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. His words as he did so: “Free Palestine.”

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A group of lawyers has launched a global coalition that will seek to pursue legal action against Israeli dual nationals accused of being involved in war crimes in Gaza. The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians said it’ll use domestic and international law against Israeli soldiers and others “spanning the entire Israeli military and political chain of command.”

The United Nations has condemned the Israeli killing of one its workers Wednesday. Five others were wounded, several severely, in the airstrike on a U.N. building in Deir al-Balah. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called for a full investigation. U.N. official Jorge Moreira da Silva said the U.N. compound is located in a deconflicted zone “well known by the Israeli Defense Forces.”

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan is set to travel to Washington on March 25 for key discussions with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Gazan media outlets have reported the death of Jaber Ammar, one of the founders of Hamas and member of the Palestine Liberation Army, who succumbed to injuries sustained in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

The European Commission has reiterated its reliance on Ukraine for essential raw materials, particularly graphite, a key resource for various industries in the European Union.

Former German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel has suggested that the West should increase the deployment of American medium-range missiles in Europe, while also offering a disarmament proposal to Russia as a countermeasure.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement late Saturday that the new directorate will work to “prepare for and enable safe and controlled passage of Gaza residents for their voluntary departure to third countries.”

New Government Should Act to Address Poverty, Gender Inequality - Social security failures coupled with structural gender inequality leave many people in Germany mired in poverty, especially single-parent families and older women. - Major gaps remain in the world’s third richest country between the amount of social security support received and the poverty risk threshold. - The parties in coalition talks should prioritize strengthening social security protections and addressing longstanding structural barriers to gender equality.

Defence Minister Israel Katz issued a statement Friday committing the Zionist regime to annex parts of Gaza if Hamas refuses to release the remaining hostages under its control. Israel continued its all-out onslaught on the enclave for a fifth straight day, with a brutal blockade on all aid launched at the beginning of March still in force.

Nestlé plans to close its factory in Germany at Neuss, near Düsseldorf, by mid-2026. The Swiss food giant also plans to sell its Conow plant, near the Polish border, early next year.

Last Monday, a shocking accident occurred in Berlin, Germany, which once again highlighted the inhumane living conditions of the homeless of the city.

Israeli warplanes bombed Gaza overnight, bringing an end to the Israel-Hamas ceasefire after two months.

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Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists demanding equality or who defy compulsory veiling using arbitrary detention, unjust prosecution, flogging, and even the death penalty in a bid to quash Iran’s women’s rights movement, Amnesty International said today.

In Kenya, women eager for new opportunities in Saudi Arabia often face dire conditions instead. Promised decent wages, many encounter abuse, unpaid wages, and dire living conditions. Kenya and Uganda continue sending workers, despite increasing deaths and abuse cases. Authorities profit from the system, overlooking the exploitation and neglecting vital protections for the workers.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shook up his military leadership, replacing the chief of the General Staff, while a top Russian official said Moscow will insist Ukraine not be allowed to join NATO and remain “neutral” in any peace deal -- conditions Kyiv has long rejected.

At least 59 people have been killed and more than 155 injured in a fire in the Puls discotheque in Kočani, North Macedonia, government officials stated.

According to former United States general Ben Hodges, the withdrawal of US troops from Europe is only a matter of time. In an interview with SonntagsBlick, he advises Switzerland to prepare for war.

Tens of thousands of people jammed the streets of central Belgrade, the largest in a wave of student-led demonstrations demanding Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic's government be held accountable for a deadly canopy collapse at a railway station in November.

Thousands of Hungarians rallied in Budapest to protest Prime Minister Viktor Orban as the leader of the surging opposition Tisza party vowed to end Orban's 15-year rule.

Two and a half years after the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests began in September 2022, the Government of Iran continues to ramp up efforts to restrict the rights of women and girls, and others demanding human rights as part of a concerted effort to crush dissent, the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran warned in a new report today.

Locations cast doubt on Trump's goal of resettling Palestinians in a 'beautiful area'

Saudi Arabia’s construction of its megacity project NEOM is projected to cost almost $9 trillion and take over five decades to complete, an internal audit has revealed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had trapped the remaining Ukrainian soldiers in its western Kursk region, where they have held on for more than seven months in one of the most important battles of the war.

A Luhansk woman received 10 years in Russia for donating $12 to what she said was a humanitarian cause.

A senior aide to President Vladimir Putin has rejected any temporary cease-fire with Ukraine just hours before a US delegation was expected to land in Russia for talks with Moscow where they will urge the Kremlin to agree to a 30-day cease-fire proposal or face sanctions.

This investigation reveals how forged export licences and fictitious ownership documents have been used in the trafficking of smuggled Egyptian antiquities in both Europe and the US.

In the winter of 2022–2023, an armed unit operated in the Kherson region of Ukraine for several months, striking fear into Russian career officers. It was also Russian: with its own insignia and numbering at least 60 members, the group was officially part of the 10th Company, “Sokol” battalion, 108th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment. In reality, however, they were loyal only to Senior Sergeant Dmitry Mayborodin, known as May. A former mercenary, Mayborodin seized control of two platoons, leading them like his own private army. Under his command, one soldier was tortured to death.

In response to the imposition of new, unjustified US tariffs on EU steel and aluminium imports, the Commission has launched swift and proportionate countermeasures on US imports into the EU.

Asserting that “A Healthy Work-Life Balance is Every Employee’s Right,” almost 700 tech workers protested in India’s IT hub Bangalore on March 9, demanding enforcement of labor laws, regulation of work hours and codification of “Right to Disconnect”.

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US President Donald Trump has today announced massive new tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminium, while threatening to "shut down" its car industry and saying the best way to end the trade war was for Washington's ally to be absorbed into the US.

A Russian diplomat recalled from Brussels amid a spy purge by Belgian authorities has been nominated to head the Belgrade mission of Europe's largest security body, a joint investigation by RFE/RL and several European media outlets has found.

Since the fall of the regime in Syria last December, the new government has issued statements about mechanisms to “develop” telecommunications, internet services, and social media.

In late August 2023, Hisham al-Hakimi, Save the Children International’s safety and security director in Yemen, informed his colleagues he was in danger of being detained.

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant linked to his decades-long campaign against drugs that killed thousands of people in the South East Asian nation.

In the Indian state of Bihar, a black market for booze runs rampant, making millions — and killing people in the process.

The international agency, part of the United Nations, was founded in 1948 and includes 194 countries working together to fight the world’s toughest public health problems. It is the cornerstone of global health efforts, with a multinational staff fighting both communicable diseases—like COVID-19, Zika, and HIV—and chronic conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

Last month, ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods made a claim so brazen it shocked even some of his most ardent critics. Humanity is not on track to meet its climate goals because the world "waited too long" to begin investing in renewable energy, and the public is to blame for it. In his words, "The people who are generating those emissions need to be aware of and pay the price for generating those emissions."

The United States has placed Switzerland on a list of countries with "unfair trade practices".

An investigation reveals that Egypt’s Public Prosecution deliberately neglects to investigate complaints of detainee torture at the hands of police officers—an act that stands in direct violation of the constitution.

Romania's Central Electoral Board (CEB) rejected the candidacy of far-right politician Calin Georgescu from a rerun of a presidential election, sparking clashes between his supporters, angry at the move, and police.

Most of the 2.2 million Palestinian civilians living in the Gaza Strip have been without electricity since October 2023. Now, Israeli authorities have ordered the shut-off of an electric line that provides power for a desalination plant that provides drinking water to many of the Palestinians in Gaza.

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