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US president aiming to take advantage of recent thaw in ties under president Yoon Suk Yeol and prime minister Fumio Kishida

A report noted ‘gaps in meaningful engagement between governments and disabled people across many parts of the UK’

An ex-police officer considered by many to be Haiti’s most powerful gang leader says he will welcome the deployment of an international armed force to the Caribbean country but vows to fight if it commits any abuses

Fighting between rival groups began on Monday night in Tripoli, and ended after the release of a commander on Tuesday.

Many people may be tempted to view the World Bank’s recent announcement that it will freeze new loans to Uganda because of the country’s vicious anti-LGBTIQ+ law as a harbinger of the Bank taking a more progressive approach to human rights issues.

To people outside Sweden it may seem surprising that police have, on several recent occasions, granted people express permission to burn copies of the Qur’an in public. The incidents have caused upset and triggered a significant debate about the far right co-opting the right to free speech to spread hate…

Elon Musk has seemingly channeled his concerns about population collapse into action

Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad has doubled public sector wages and pensions as the war-torn country’s national currency spiraled further downwards, reaching a new low for the year

The kidnapping and subsequent release of U.S. nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her young daughter in Haiti in early August 2023 drew brief international attention to crime in the impoverished Caribbean nation.