A human rights activist in Belarus on Thursday began a hunger strike inside prison in the latest protest against the repressive government of Alexander Lukashenko, a rights organization said.The Belarusian human rights organization Viasna said Aliaksandar Vaitseshyk went on hunger strike in the city of Baranavichy, in western Belarus, after…

A photographer for a newspaper in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez, which has been dominated by drug cartels, was found shot to death, prosecutors said Thursday.The body of news photographer Ismael Villagómez was found in the driver’s seat of a car just after midnight Thursday in Ciudad Juárez,…

Five European countries and Canada are looking to join a genocide case brought against the Burmese government by the Gambia.Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. filed a “declaration of intervention in the case,” the International Court of Justice reported Thursday.The Gambia first brought the case in 2019,…

A Russian soldier recently returned from fighting in Ukraine went to teach schoolchildren about Russia’s military campaign there before later beating up his neighbors, Russian news outlet Ostorozhno Novosti reported on its Telegram channel. It is the latest report of a fighter from Ukraine returning to commit acts of violence…

Syria’s president issued a decree granting amnesty and reducing sentences for several categories of crime committed prior to Thursday, his office and state media reported.No reason was given for the amnesty but it came on the anniversary of the 1970 coup that brought the father and predecessor of President Bashar…

A fire erupted in a coal mining company building in a northern Chinese city on Thursday, killing 26 people and injuring at least 38, Chinese state media reported.Rescue personnel evacuated dozens of people from the building, according to state media.The building belongs to Yongju Coal Company and is in Lvliang…

Polling stations closed and the counting of votes began Thursday in Madagascar in a presidential election that was boycotted by the majority of candidates following weeks of unrest and court battles.A low voter turnout marked the election, as many people appeared to heed a call by a collective of 10…

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was re-elected by Parliament on Thursday, winning the votes of 179 of a possible 350 lawmakers.Sánchez’s victory immediately follows his leveraging of an amnesty deal with Catalan separatists in order to secure votes from the region’s representatives in Madrid.Oriol Bartomeus, professor of political science of…

The U.N. special rapporteur to the occupied Palestinian territory claimed this week that Israel does not have a right to self-defense against Hamas under international law and accused the country of committing “war crimes.”The comments from Francesca Albanese came Tuesday during an address to the National Press Club of Australia,…

Officials in Iceland reportedly have sent a large bulldozer to a region under threat of a volcanic eruption to dig massive ditches in hopes of diverting any potential lava flow away from key structures in the area. The bulldozer, described as a Caterpillar D11, was traveling with a police escort to…