PARIS (AA) – The French border police shot and injured two migrants close to the Italian frontier, Franceinfo news reported on Wednesday. According to the report, a car carrying migrants reportedly refused to halt for inspection during a joint Franco-Italian police operation at Sospel town in the Alpes-Maritime department around 3 a.m. on Wedn...
GENEVA (AA): UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet has said that she will not stand for a second four-year term for the position she has held since 2018. “I will not be seeking a second term after my mandate expires on the 31st of August this year,” Bachelet told journalists outside the chamber where the Human […]
LONDON (AA): Britain’s Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal against a High Court decision that asylum seekers can be flown to Rwanda in a controversial scheme. The decision means the first deportation flight to Rwanda can go ahead right away. In April, the UK announced plans to send some of the people who seek […]
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – Sabiti Mufupi, 50, is proud to be an indigenous Batwa pygmy. However, there are some people who look down on him and his clansmen because they are short and in most cases small in size. Mufupi, who lives in Kasese in western Uganda, said that his tribe was displaced from their […]
ANKARA (AA) – Ten international human rights groups have criticized the dismissal of more than 55 judges by Tunisian President Kais Saied, describing the move a “deep blow to judicial independence.” “The president’s moves are an assault on the rule of law. He should immediately revoke the decree and reinstate judges he ...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Parliament on Thursday condemned the “brutal and arbitrary repression” of Uyghurs and Turkic people in China’s Xinjiang region, and called on Beijing to release those detained. In a resolution adopted by show of hands, EU lawmakers condemned “in the strongest possible terms the fact that the Uyghur community ...
BELGRADE, Serbia – Bosnia and Herzegovina marked White Ribbon Day in honor of thousands of innocent civilians killed in the western town of Prijedor in 1992. On May 31, 1992, the Serbian administration in Prijedor ordered the non-Serb population to wear white stripes on their arms when they left their houses- an order followed by […]
JERUSALEM/DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by an armor-piercing projectile fired directly at her head by an Israeli sniper, Palestinian attorney general Akram Al-Khatib has said. Al-Khatib shared the details based on the Public Prosecution’s report about the killing of the Al Jazeera journali...
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – Human rights defenders in Tanzania have said that they feel relieved by the measures taken by the first female President Samia Suluhu Hassan like lifting the ban on 30 media outlets, and beginning a review of repressive laws. Hassan, who took over last year in March after the death of […]
Sanliurfa, Turkey- AFP Hundreds of thousands of refugees are stranded in Turkey’s Sanliurfa province, which shares a long border with Syria. Civil war in Syria is estimated to have killed nearly half a million people and displaced millions since it began with a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests in 2011. A new wave of economic ...
