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Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha telephoned on Monday Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyadh Al-Maliki to discuss the ongoing Israeli violations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem. He stressed the OIC's solidarity with the Palestinians, expressing its absolute support to their legitimate rights in Jerusalem…

As space science matures and accelerates, the time has come for a democratically accountable UN to moderate human activity beyond Earth, writes Ian A. Crawford

UK home secretary attacks critics of plan to give unauthorised asylum seekers one-way tickets to African country

Survivors of war crimes committed during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war say the victims of ongoing human rights abuses in Ukraine should learn from their experience of fighting for justice, but that they must first make peace with the fact that reaching it will inevitably be a lengthy and painful process

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby became the latest figure to denounce the scheme

In a society riven with poverty and where armed gangs use sexual violence as a means of control, three women are working for justice

Supply problems and rising costs make it difficult to replace lost agricultural output caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Vladimir Putin's forces may have retreated from northern Ukraine for now, but many residents fear their nightmare is not yet over. WARNING: This article contains images and details readers might find distressing.

Kenyan Sharon Atieno, 23, considers herself a busy woman. She believes in the saying 'the early bird catches the worm', and every day she leaves her Nairobi home at the crack of dawn to go to work. She is one of the waste collectors at the expansive Dandora dumping site…