Human rights

Myanmar junta lifts Yangon curfew ahead of elections

A man taking part in early voting in Yangon on Dec 26 ahead of the start of Myanmar's general election.

Iran executes man accused of spying for Israel, judiciary's news outlet says

FILE PHOTO: Israel and Iran flags are seen in this illustration taken June 18, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

US drops Uganda deportation order against Chinese dissident, lawyer says

A view shows the U.S. Department of Homeland Security signage in New York City, U.S., July 21, 2025. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

UN says over 1,000 civilians killed in Sudan's Darfur as US, others urge ceasefire

Migrants stuck in Mauritania after EU border pact brings crackdown

Maka Keila, 27, and Garry Ndajy, 32, work at an open-air brick workshop, on the outskirts of Nouakchott, Mauritania, February 22, 2025, amid a crackdown on irregular migration following a 2024 partnership agreement with the European Union. \"I know a lot of people who go to Nouadibou (a northern port in Mauritania),\" Keila said. \"There are a lot of friends there, who were looking to get to Europe. They say that now everything has stopped.\" REUTERS/Juan Medina

Freed Nobel laureate Bialiatski sees Belarus sliding back to Soviet times

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Belarusian human rights campaigner Ales Bialiatski looks on during an interview in Vilnius, Lithuania, December 16, 2025. REUTERS/Janis Laizans

No news on whereabouts or health of Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi, supporters say

FILE PHOTO: Taghi Ramahi, husband of Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women's rights advocate, who won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, poses with an undated photo of himself and his wife, during an interview at his home in Paris, France, October 6, 2023. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Photo

In Bali, the holiday vibe masks memories of a massacre

Surfers at Batu Belig beach in Bali on Nov 28. The development of mass tourism on the island was a deliberate strategy to resuscitate an economy shattered by the mass killings, historians say.

Belarus' Lukashenko says Venezuelan President Maduro is welcome to move to Belarus

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia September 26, 2025. REUTERS/Ramil Sitdikov/Pool

Iranian Nobel laureate hospitalised twice after ‘violent arrest’, say family

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi's family said she suffered blows from security forces who arrested her.

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