The popular protest song “Glory to Hong Kong” will soon be removed from all platforms due to a court ban in the city.The song has been removed from iTunes and Apple Music in various regions, and most versions are unavailable on Spotify in Hong Kong.An appeals court granted the government’s…

A British woman and three children linked to ISIS were handed over to a U.K. delegation in Syria.The handover was part of an effort to repatriate people from the al-Hol and Roj camps.The Kurdish authorities did not disclose the names of the four people.A British woman and three children linked…

The U.N. human rights office warned Friday of “frightening and disturbing reports” about the impact of new violence in Burma’s western state of Rakhine, pointing to new attacks on Rohingya civilians by the military and an ethnic armed group fighting it.Spokesperson Liz Throssell of the office of the U.N. High…

At the rear of Rio de Janeiro’s polluted Guanabara Bay, thousands of mangroves rise as tall as 13 feet from a previously deforested area.The 30,000 trees, planted by non-profit organization Instituto Mar Urbano over four years in the Guapimirim environmental protection area, stand as an example for cities seeking natural…

The United Kingdom’s first national election in five years is shaping up as a battle for the country’s soul, with some saying it poses an existential threat to the governing Conservative Party, which has been in power since 2010.The center-right Conservatives took power during the depths of the global financial…

Egypt said Friday it has agreed to send U.N. humanitarian aid trucks through Israel’s main crossing into Gaza, but it remained unclear if they will be able to enter the territory as fighting raged in the southern city of Rafah amid Israel’s escalating offensive there.Meanwhile, the bodies of three more…

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe was charged Friday in a long-running witness tampering investigation.Uribe was formally charged with witness tampering and bribery for his efforts to discredit a political opponent who was digging into Uribe’s family ties to right-wing paramilitary groups. If convicted, Uribe faces up to 12 years in…

The cross at the apse of Notre-Dame de Paris, which survived the devastating 2019 fire, was reinstalled atop the cathedral’s framework Friday after a meticulous restoration by artistic ironworkers from Normandy.The imposing cross, spanning 12 meters and weighing 1.5 tons, is the only element of the choir roof that resisted…

A Paris court sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison Friday for complicity in war crimes in a landmark case against the regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad and the first such case in Europe.The trial focused on the officials’ role in the alleged arrest, torture…

Nearly 140 migrants have reached Greek shores over the past 24 hours, making the dangerous sea voyage across the Mediterranean Sea, authorities said Friday. One man, who had set off from North Africa, drowned off the southern island of Crete.Greece, along with Spain and Italy, is a key entry point…