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UN Human Rights Council renews mandate to collect and preserve evidence of atrocities during the decades-long civil war.

It was the report that China hoped would never see the light of day. Just minutes before her mandate ended, the office of now-former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet published its long-overdue assessment of human rights in China's Xinjiang region. It contained damning findings of mass arbitrary…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission expected that Yemen would achieve a modest economic growth of about two percent this year and 3.2 percent in 2023. However, the Fund called for more reforms, especially with regard to the customs dollar rate, support for the electricity sector, transparency in financial management,…

The UN Security Council expressed “deep disappointment” at the Houthis’ failure to engage with the Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, to extend the truce in Yemen for another six months. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced during a joint press conference with Chile’s Foreign Minister Antonia Oriola in…

Observers say cabinet rows and PM’s comments so far could undermine global consensus forged at Glasgow

Joining the US, France and the UK, India also strongly condemned North Korea's ballistic missile launch over Japan and its seven other ballistic missile launches conducted since 25 September. Read more on Dynamite News:

Lebanon’s health minister said on Friday that authorities are inspecting suspected cases of cholera, less than a day after the cash-strapped country confirmed its first case of the illness since 1993. The news came almost a month after an outbreak of the illness in neighboring war-torn Syria. Firas Abiad, Lebanon’s…

Relatives grieving staggering loss Friday laid flowers at a day care center in rural northeastern Thailand where a fired police officer killed dozens of people, including children as young as 2.

Lebanon’s health minister has said the authorities are inspecting new suspected cases of cholera, less than a day after confirming its first case of the illness in the country since 1993

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday that remarks by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy suggesting NATO should launch preventive strikes on Russia confirmed the need for what it calls its "special operation" in Ukraine.

The European Union will send a "civilian EU mission" to Armenia to help delineate the borders with Azerbaijan, stakeholders announced after a meeting with France in Prague.