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For years, the Baltic states dismissed the Kremlin’s increasingly outlandish claims – from implying they were allowing Ukrainian drones to strike Russia from their territory to allegations they were preparing to deport their native Russian speakers – as propaganda. Note, debunk, move on.

Female lawyer tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour about alleged ‘escalation of attempts’ as second woman also speaks out

Donald Trump’s America First policy, his dismantling of USAID, and his war against Iran have led to the revival of the long-forgotten phenomenon of Somali piracy.

The months after the October 7, 2023, attacks saw a wave of questionable mainstream news stories about alleged sexual assault in Hamas’s attacks that day on Israel.

Venezuela’s revolutionary socialist government has withstood uprisings, international isolation and the removal of its leader Nicolás Maduro by US forces.

Acting President Delcy Rodríguez laid out her disaster response plan flanked by an inner circle of powerful officials blacklisted by the United States and Canada for corruption and trafficking.

On 12 June, the outgoing Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, announced that she was releasing several pages of documents pertaining to US-funded biological laboratories in Ukraine.

Mozambican soldiers have been accused of rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Cabo Delgado, while staff working on TotalEnergies’ LNG project allegedly coerced women into sex, according to interviews and an unpublished UN report obtained by Forbidden Stories.

Israel’s destruction in southern Lebanon may leave up to 250,000 Lebanese unable to prove they own their homes or property.

The energy crisis triggered by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has been a serious challenge for the transition to renewable energy sources.

Approximately 48 people were rescued alive after a vessel reportedly left Libya carrying about 60 passengers.

Palestinians in Gaza, confined to increasingly smaller areas, are receiving less than half of the aid trucks promised as part of a ceasefire agreement and are urging the British government to take more action to protect them.

The United Nations has added several Israeli entities to a blacklist of countries that commit sexual violence in war zones.

As dawn breaks, hundreds of men gather at a dusty square in Chaghcharan, the capital of Ghor province in Afghanistan.

David Blaine was on a mission to conquer his next impossible feat, and it required ingesting kerosene.

An Israeli firm blacklisted by the UN for its West Bank activities has raked in over $1 billion from North Sea oil and gas in just six years.

Guests were enticed with the promise of luxury villas overlooking aquamarine seas.

State department said niece and grandniece of Qassem Soleimani, killed in 2020 US drone strike, celebrated attacks against US soldiers.

The Interior Ministry acted days after local media reported that Chinese state actors in 2024 hacked the database of a police unit assigned to protecting Chinese dissidents.

Iranian authorities have arrested tens of thousands of people in what Human Rights Watch described on Tuesday as a “brutal campaign” of mass, arbitrary, and violent detentions aimed at terrorizing the population since late December.

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

Nomma Zarubina, who is charged with lying about her alleged contacts with Russian intelligence, was jailed after failing to heed warnings against drunk texting an FBI agent.

More than 36,000 people have fled Sudan’s Kordofan region east of Darfur since Saturday, the UN’s migration agency has said, a week after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control of the city of El Fasher.