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JESSICA CORBETT Hundreds of anti-war protesters were detained in Russia on Friday following over 1,800 arrests the previous day, as Russian President Vladimir Putin directed a brutal and long-anticipated invasion of Ukraine. The independent monitoring group...

India abstained on a US-sponsored United Nations Security Council resolution on Saturday that “deplores in the strongest terms” Russia’s “aggression” against Ukraine. While Russia vetoed the resolution, China and the...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on soldiers in Russia’s war on Ukraine to “return to their barracks”.

France has violated the rights of French children detained for years in camps in northeast Syria by failing to repatriate them, the UN Child Rights Committee said in findings issued on Thursday.

Hours after Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine, Russians across the country took to the streets to slam his actions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address early on Friday that 137 people have been killed and hundreds more wounded, a day after Russia launched full scale...

A Russian opposition activist who called for anti-war protests says she has been detained by Russian Police.

The Ukrainian president Zelenskyy has called on all citizens who are ready to defend the country from Russian forces to come forward, saying Kyiv would issue weapons to everyone who wants them.

Video footage shows that Russian rockets have hit population centres in major Ukrainian cities despite claims by the Russian military that it is only targeting military infrastructure.

Russian military operation is underway in multiple cities across Ukraine after President Vladimir Putin announced special military operation on Thursday. Putin’s move was swiftly condemned by several nations. “President Putin:...

JULIA CONLEY Women in Colombia are now free to seek abortion care without fear of criminal prosecution following a ruling by the country's Constitutional Court on Monday—the result of years of campaigning by...

Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham and Tatyana Malyarenko, National University Odesa Law Academy Vladimir Putin’s recognition of the independence of the two breakaway republics of Donetsk and Luhansk followed a...