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The latest sanctions package also includes measures targeting financial networks accused of moving Iranian oil revenues through front companies abroad.

Judiciary chief threatens swift punishment after Trump says US will intervene if Iran begins executing demonstrators

Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images.

Former Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is permitted to travel after speaking with two commissions investigating violence during the anti-corruption protests in September.

Human rights groups warn of a climate of fear in Guinea-Bissau following military takeover and crackdown on critics

United States president Donald Trump was unsurprisingly given the first ever FIFA peace prize at Friday’s World Cup draw ceremony in Washington DC.

In Venezuela, a new basketball league is holding games in a stadium located directly above a notorious political prison — a stark contrast that critics claim represents a broader attempt to "sportswash" the government’s alarming human rights record.

Spain’s chief prosecutor has announced his resignation after the supreme court found him guilty last week of leaking confidential information in a case involving a businessman who is the boyfriend of a prominent right-wing politician.

When Patrick Pouyanné decided to invest billions in a massive natural gas field located in a distant warzone, he made the decision by himself during a single dinner with the CEO of a competing energy company.

A crowd rushes in panic down a dusty street. Gunshots sound. A woman in a purple jacket holding a stick collapses to the ground.

Russian authorities have increased their crackdown on dissent and free speech since the Kremlin deployed troops to Ukraine in February 2022.

A climate activist who served one of the longest prison sentences in modern British history for a peaceful protest has won his appeal against deportation.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists is facing a backlash from members over a controversial partnership with Qatar’s state healthcare provider.

Tanzanian authorities have detained a senior official from the main opposition party, Chadema, amid a series of arrests connected to deadly protests during last week’s elections.

UK academics whose research criticizes China say they have been targeted, and their universities subjected to "extremely heavy" pressure from Beijing, leading to calls for a reassessment of the sector’s reliance on tuition fee income from Chinese students.

In Tanzania, a nation friendly to Russia, large-scale protests broke out on the day of the presidential and parliamentary elections.

Ukraine has deployed special forces to the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk in an attempt to push back an intense Russian assault involving thousands of troops, Kyiv’s top commander has said.

When Google and Amazon negotiated a major $1.2bn cloud-computing deal in 2021, their customer – the Israeli government – had an unusual demand: agree to use a secret code as part of an arrangement that would become known as the “winking mechanism”.

The sculpture takes the form of a crumpled bronze letter bearing words from personnel who were affected by the ban on gay and transgender people from serving in the armed forces.

Protesters returned to Morocco’s streets a month after anti-corruption rallies swept the country, this time demanding freedom and justice for more than 1,500 detained demonstrators. Hundreds have already been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison.

The European Union has imposed sanctions on Ilya Sorokin, a prison doctor exposed by OCCRP and RFE/RL’s “Schemes” program in July as having systematically humiliated, tortured, and denied medical assistance to Ukrainian prisoners of war.

The European Parliament on Wednesday adopted a sharply worded resolution condemning what it called an “escalating wave of repression” in Serbia, urging targeted sanctions against senior officials accused of violence and human rights abuses amid mass anti-government protests.

The EU has been criticized for pausing sanctions against Israel’s government in response to Donald Trump’s peacemaking efforts in the Middle East, as the fragile ceasefire came under threat.