Female activists are filling the reporting gap in Sudan, but this raises concerns about credibility, protection and oversight. Sudan’s ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces, increasingly viewed as a proxy war driven by competing geopolitical interests, has triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. It also highlights a hybrid…
Speaking to the BBC about the ICC’s investigation, Khan said: “We have now found concrete evidence that links what is happening on the ground through linkage evidence to specific persons in leadership mode.” However, she did not give a timeline on when charges might be brought against those responsible for the atrocities in the war,…
The United States launched dozens of strikes on Iran early on Wednesday in what it said was retaliation for Tehran’s attacks on commercial ships in the highly contested Strait of Hormuz, sparking widespread fears of the renewal of all-out war in the Middle East. After the US attacks, President Donald Trump told reporters at a…
Millions of mourners have attended the funeral ceremonies of Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, as have representatives of several dozen countries — presidents, prime ministers, foreign ministers, parliament speakers and more. Yet as the multiday event weaves its way through Iran — the procession will then pass into Iraq — residents across Tehran have…
At the site of one missile strike, in the Podilskyi district of Kyiv, rescue teams have been working in the ruins of an apartment block with a big hole blown through its middle. Specialists have been using sniffer dogs to try to find the missing among the wreckage as cranes lift giant slabs of concrete…
NewsFeed Huge crowds filled the streets of Tehran as the funeral procession for Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, began moving slowly through the capital. A week of ceremonies are taking place after Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli air attacks in February. Published On 6 Jul 20266 Jul 2026 Click here to share on…
When people think of the world’s deadliest threats, armed conflicts usually come to mind first. Yet every year, organized crime quietly claims a comparable number of lives. Since 2000, the UN estimates that organized criminal groups have been linked to about 95,000 homicides annually. That figure is strikingly close to the average annual death toll…
Reacting to the decision by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to deposit formal notifications of withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Marceau Sivieude, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said: “This decision by the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger threatens to deny thousands of victims the…
On the city’s left bank, in Darnitskyi district in south-east Kyiv, two missiles hit a residential area directly, causing devastation. One missile left a giant crater next to a kindergarten and the buildings all around have been gutted by fire, their metal balconies twisted. The second missile landed a few steps away and hit the…
Iran and the United States have begun indirect talks in Doha, with the Qataris and Pakistanis mediating, a source with direct knowledge of the discussions told the Reuters news agency on Wednesday. U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, President Trumps’s son-in-law, met with Qatar’s prime minister on Tuesday but are not attending Wednesday’s technical…
