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State-Printed Textbooks Scarce in Kyrgyz Schools as Same Editions Appear for Sale on Markets; Ministry Opens Probe into Uchkun

Parents say children receive only a handful of state-funded textbooks and must buy the rest, while identical books print...

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Airbase near Simferopol emerges as a military hub for long-range Shahed/Geran drone strikes on Ukraine

Since September 2023, Russian forces occupying Crimea have deployed Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drones and later turboj...

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September 11, 2001 and Its Aftermath in Afghanistan: Twenty-Five Years On

On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda carried out deadly attacks in the United States, killing roughly 3,000 people in a singl...

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Five EU Countries Agree to Joint Model for Migrant Holding Centres Outside Europe; Rights Groups Raise Alarms

Austria, Germany, Greece, Denmark and the Netherlands have agreed to develop a unified model for centres to hold migrant...

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Montenegro’s President: Death of Ratko Mladić Must Not Be Used to Relativize War Crimes

Montenegrin President Jakov Milatović said on August 28 that expressions of sympathy toward the family of the late Hagu...

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Laws Changed, Women’s Safety Hasn’t: Kosovo’s Electronic Monitoring System Under Scrutiny After Pregnant Woman’s Killing

The August killing of a 25-year-old pregnant woman in Malishevë, allegedly by her husband, has raised urgent questions...

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Kyiv Declares Day of Mourning After Russian Rocket and Drone Strikes Kill Dozens and Damage Civilian Infrastructure

A large-scale Russian attack using rockets and drones overnight on Aug. 19–20 struck Kyiv and the surrounding region,...

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Ten servicemen at Odesa recruitment centre charged with torture and unlawful detention, prosecutor says

Ukraine’s prosecutor general announced on 18 August that ten military personnel attached to a district territorial rec...

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Five Years of Restrictions: How Taliban Bans on Girls’ Education and Women’s Work Have Reshaped Afghan Lives

Five years after the Taliban’s return to power, sweeping bans on girls’ secondary and higher education and broad res...

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Drone strikes hit Tatarstan’s Nizhnekamsk (Tüben Kama), killing 13 including a child; day of mourning declared

Early on 10 August, drone attacks struck the industrial city of Tüben Kama (Nizhnekamsk) in Russia’s Tatarstan, killi...

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Tatarstan Declares Mourning After Drone Strikes on Nizhnekamsk Kill 12, Wound Dozens

Explosions rocked the oil and petrochemical hub of Nizhnekamsk in Russia’s Tatarstan on the morning of August 10, in w...

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Ukrainian investigators charge two 'Skelya' medics with torturing and detaining fellow soldiers

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Pakistan Rejects Amnesty International Findings on Deadly Strike at Kabul's 'Omid' Addiction Treatment Centre

Pakistan has rejected a detailed Amnesty International report concluding that a March airstrike on the Omid addiction tr...

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Rights Group Says Chechen Opposition Figure Zarema Musaev Transferred to Lakharchu Penal Colony; Lawyer Files Appeal

Human rights organisation Memorial reports that Zarema Musaev, a 56-year-old Chechen opposition activist linked to the Y...

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Taliban 'Mahram' Requirement Restricts Afghan Women’s Travel, Work and Daily Life

Women in Afghanistan say Taliban-enforced requirements that they be accompanied by a male mahram are complicating cross-...

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Three killed and 20 wounded after strike hits postal terminal near Kharkiv, regional governor says

A strike on a postal terminal in the Kharkiv suburbs on July 19 killed three men and injured 20 others, regional head Ol...

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Body of abused woman who disappeared after divorce still missing as sister demands children be removed from suspect family

Mekiye Akyel vanished on 18 October 2024, a day after divorcing her husband, after travelling to retrieve her children a...

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HRW urges Berlin to investigate deportation of Tajik opposition activist Asadullo Boboev

Human Rights Watch has called on Germany to investigate the June 20 deportation of Tajik opposition activist Asadullo Bo...

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Syria says it is expecting Macron — potential first Western head of state to visit since Ahmed al-Sharaa took power

Syrian state media announced on July 5 that Damascus is expecting a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron, describin...

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Kosovo court sentences Ekrem Bajroviq to 12 years in prison in retrial for 1999 war crimes

A court in Pristina has sentenced Ekrem Bajroviq to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty in a retrial for crimes...

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Former criminal and alleged 'Kadyrov killer' Artur Denisultanov killed near Selidovo as Chechen hit squads feature in Ukraine war

Artur Denisultanov — a convicted criminal who was at various times portrayed in media reports as a personal killer ass...

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UN Residual Mechanism Prosecutor: Over 2,000 Suspects from Former Yugoslavia Still Await National War Crimes Investigations

Serge Brammertz, chief prosecutor of the United Nations’ residual court, told the UN Security Council that more than 2...

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Pregnant woman and two others killed in Russian night strikes on Ukraine, Ozodlik reports

A brief report by Ozodlik says Russian nighttime strikes on Ukraine killed a pregnant woman and two other people. The ou...

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ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan Suspended by Assembly Bureau amid Sexual Harassment Allegations

The bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute voted on June 8 to suspend International Criminal Court...