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UN Experts’ Murder Trial Resumes In DR Congo

A Democratic Republic of Congo military court held a second day of hearings Monday in the trial of a man and a teenager...

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UN Rights Chief Urges Ethiopia To Free Prisoners After Protests

Ethiopia should rein in a controversial anti-terrorism law and release prisoners, the UN human rights chief said...

International

Three Police Killed In Cairo Attack

Suspected militants have killed three police officers and wounded five others in an attack in the Egyptian capital,...

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New Syria War Crimes Panel To Launch Soon

A new UN body tasked with identifying individuals guilty of atrocities in Syria should start work shortly, a key step...

International

UN Condemns Sri Lanka Over War Probe

As many as 40,000 Tamil civilians may have died in the last few months of the fighting The United Nations has condemned...

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Syria Has Become ‘torture Chamber’

The UN rights chief warned Tuesday that a "tidal wave of bloodshed" over more than six years of war in Syria had...

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Two United Nations Workers Kidnapped In Democratic Republic of Congo

Two United Nations workers from peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been kidnapped by...

International

IS Hangs Bodies of 40 Civilians From Poles In Iraqi

So-called Islamic State (IS) shot dead 40 civilians on Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul after accusing them...

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Trump Presidency ‘dangerous’

Donald Trump's "deeply unsettling and disturbing" views make him a danger internationally, the UN's human rights chief...