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Ukraine’s prosecutor general says the country’s authorities are investigating about 13,000 cases of alleged war crimes carried out by Russian forces.

The Ukraine war and other conflicts pushed the number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights violations and persecution over the staggering milestone of 100 million for the first time on record, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) informed on Sunday.

Heavy rains have caused widespread flooding in parts of Bangladesh, leaving at least one million stranded.

As 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region teeter on the edge of severe hunger over the next three months, the UN released on Friday an additional $30 million from its emergency humanitarian fund

Israeli troops shot and killed a teenage Palestinian boy, Amjad al-Fayyed, 17, as they raided the northern city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.

While we might not be hearing the daily COVID numbers anymore, the virus hasn’t gone away. In the UK alone, thousands of new cases continue to be recorded every day.

“When war is waged, people go hungry,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday during a debate on conflict and food security chaired by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The Israeli military is not planning to investigate the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, Israeli media reported.

Russian forces controlling much of the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions in northeastern Ukraine from late February through March 2022 subjected civilians to summary executions, torture, and other grave abuses that are apparent war crimes, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

Speaking about the matter for the first time in public, award winning director Asghar Farhadi denied that he plagiarised his 2021 film "A Hero."

The news that more than 100,000 people in Mexico are now officially registered as “disappeared” is a tragedy, UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday, in a call for action to tackle the country’s longstanding problem.

Indian American Muslim Council on Tuesday released a statement strongly condemning Varanasai court's order to seal parts of the historic Gyanvapi mosque over "Shiva Linga" claims by the Hindu...