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Russia and Ukraine on Saturday announced that they had exchanged 115 prisoners of war each, just over two weeks after Kyiv launched a surprise incursion into Russia's Kursk region. The prisoner exchange came on Ukraine's Independence Day, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a video address, said Russia wanted to…

Talks in Switzerland to secure a ceasefire deal between Sudan’s two warring parties failed this week after the Sudanese military did not send a delegation. But international negotiators succeeded in getting access for humanitarian aid to the country’s conflict and famine-stricken Darfur region, enabling food trucks to make their way…

António Guterres to attend Pacific Islands Forum (Pif) in Tonga with climate crisis and unrest in New Caledonia among issues to watch

The U.N.’s human rights chief has joined a chorus of concern for members of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority after many were reported killed in recent fighting between the military government and the Arakan Army, an armed ethnic rebel group

'Schools post pictures of children in dance outfits and on camps.'

A UN committee has instructed the Scottish Government to take action on anti-Irish racism in the country ...

Talks on the devastating war in Sudan ended Friday without a ceasefire but with progress on securing aid access on two key routes into a country facing one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.

WHO says infant in stable condition as it prepares to vaccinate more than 640,000 children amid war

Review also highlights racial profiling in police practices, and failure to address legacies of colonialism and slavery