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The conclusion drawn by the human rights organization Amnesty International in its report on last year is bleak: human rights violations are on the rise worldwide, at the hands of both states and non-state actors. And in the majority of cases, those responsible go unpunished. The "Amnesty Report 2025 ," which was just released in

Apple announced on Monday that after more than a decade as chief executive, Tim Cook will step down in September. Cook will hand leadership to company veteran John Ternus, currently Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, marking Apple's first CEO transition since the death of founder Steve Jobs. "Having spent almost my entire career

A shooting at Mexico's Teotihuacan pyramids, a famous tourist and archaeological site, killed one Canadian woman and injured several others on Monday, Mexican authorities said. The shooter later killed himself at the site, which lies outside Mexico City. Videos on social media show the gunmen firing periodic shots from halfway up the Pyramid of the

Keir Starmer gave a statement to the House of Commons on Monday, seeking to provide more details on the vetting and controversial appointment of the UK's former ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, a known Jeffrey Epstein associate who resigned amid scandal last year and now faces legal investigations for alleged misconduct in public office. 

Elon Musk did not appear on Monday for a voluntary interview with Paris prosecutors investigating alleged misconduct linked to his social media platform X and its Grok chatbot. Prosecutors told AFP news agency that they had "noted the absence of those summoned," without naming Musk directly. French authorities had issued the summons to Musk in February as part of

Ugandan and Congolese soldiers rescued at least 200 civilians in a raid on an Islamist camp in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last week, Uganda's military said in a statement .  The Ugandan People's Defense Forces (UPDF) said the raid targeted a Ugandan group operating in eastern Congo, the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which

The Venice Art Biennale, which takes place every two years, has historically maintained that art transcends politics. But since the event is also referred to as the "Olympics of the art world" — with national pavilions acting as official, state-sponsored platforms showcasing contemporary art — global politics inevitably get entangled in the conversation. A posthumous exhibition

"The reality for children in Sudan is growing darker hour by hour," Eva Hinds, spokeswoman for the UN's children's agency (UNICEF), said last week as the country's civil war entered its fourth year.  The conflict broke out in April 2023 between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) following the collapse of a

Four years ago, the United States tightened the screws on China's technological ambitions, rolling out export curbs on advanced chips, commonly known as semiconductors, used in artificial intelligence (AI), data centers and national defense. The Biden administration aimed to limit Beijing's ability to develop technologies that could boost its military and financial strength, further narrowing the gap between the world's

Progressive Bulgaria, the party led by former President Rumen Radev, won a landslide victory in general elections in Bulgaria, official results showed on Monday. The party secured 44.6% of the votes after counting was complete. That means Radev's party is on course to win around 130 seats in the 240-seat parliament. It represents a better-than-expected performance and appears to be