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By UN NewsRoughly 800,000 people have been forced to flee Rafah since Israel launched a military operation in the area on 6 May, the head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA said on Saturday in a renewed appeal for greater protection of civilians in...
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By UN NewsThe UN human rights office, OHCHR, on Friday urged the Sri Lankan Government to take decisive action to uncover the fates and locations of tens of thousands of individuals subjected to enforced disappearances over the years and to hold thos...
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By AFPA Guatemalan court on Wednesday granted a prominent journalist and corruption critic a conditional release in an impugned graft case, though he must clear another legal hurdle before being freed from prison.Jose Ruben Zamora has rejected money-...
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By AFPEgypt's top court Saturday removed the names of ex-football star Mohamed Aboutrika and 1,500 others from "terrorist" lists over their alleged links to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, a lawyer said."The Court of Cassation heard our defence plea...
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By AFPAn empty girls' school in Pakistan was partially damaged in a bomb explosion after militant groups demanded extortion money, officials said on Friday.It is the second attack on a girls' school in just over a week, both located in the former tri...
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By AFPEthiopia on Thursday objected to a speech delivered by the US ambassador urging better protection of human rights, with the foreign ministry calling the address "unsolicited" and "ill-advised".While visiting a recently restored historical build...
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By AFPRussia on Wednesday voiced outrage at an effort in the United Nations to create an international day of commemoration of the Srebrenica genocide."We view this provocative text as a threat to peace and security in the country (Bosnia), and in th...
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By AFPThe World Health Organization said Friday that it has received no medical supplies in the Gaza Strip for 10 days as Israel pursues a new offensive against Hamas.Israel's closure of the Rafah crossing into Gaza has caused "a difficult situation"...
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By AFPKosovo's government pledged on Thursday to extend the political rights of the country's tiny ethnic Serb minority, the final condition for it to join Europe's top rights body.In a letter to the body, the Council of Europe (CoE), Foreign Ministe...
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By AFPFifteen EU states want "new ways" to handle irregular migrants, including sending some to third countries, in a demand made as the bloc plots out how to implement a recently adopted overhaul of its asylum rules.The countries presented their joi...
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By AFPGaza authorities released a list on Thursday of more than 100 academics and researchers they say have been killed by Israeli forces since war broke out over seven months ago."We strongly condemn the occupation's assassination of scientists, aca...
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By UN NewsA renowned Palestinian orthopaedic surgeon’s death in Israeli detention has been labelled “horrifying’ by a UN human rights expert, prompting calls for an independent international investigation.Dr. Adnan Al Bursh, 50, the head of the ortho...
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