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Israel military drops thousands of leaflets ordering evacuation to south of Gaza

Iraqi court sentences al-Baghdadi's wife to death for crimes against Yazidis. Concerns over due process and accountability persist.

Country has largest internally displaced population on record, with 7 million uprooted since fighting began in April 2023

Israel's army dropped thousands of leaflets over war-torn Gaza City on Wednesday urging all residents to flee a heavy offensive through the main city of the besieged Palestinian territory. The leaflets, addressed to "everyone in Gaza City", set out designated escape routes and warned that the urban area would "remain…

Once Cyprus's premier beach resort, the abandoned hotels and villas of Varosha stand testament to dashed hopes of reclaiming lost property after five decades of division and failed diplomacy.

Hussein al-Naasan struggles to provide water for his family in the scorching summer, as aid funds have dried up and conditions deteriorated in impoverished displacement camps in Syria's rebel-held northwest.

A visionary hero who ended the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and brought peace to a traumatised country, or a despot who rules through fear and repression.

U.N. experts say that between 3,000 and 4,000 Rwanda government forces are deployed in neighboring eastern Congo, operating alongside the M23 rebel group which has been making major advances

Ron DeSantis and the group behind Project 2025 will be there, but Nikki Haley will miss the rightwing gathering

Hugh Bayley says NGOs would also benefit as he releases report on impact of UK programme in Afghanistan

A lawyer called the policy so “draconian” that it could run afoul of the Civil Rights Act.