The United Nations rights chief appealed Friday for nearly half a billion dollars for his office's work in 2023 to "bring human rights to life in every part of the world."
A month before Nigeria's presidential election, top candidates have been exchanging a colorful tirade of insults and accusations over their pasts, the state of their health and even calls for each other's arrest.
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday urged Western allies to deliver tanks to Ukraine at a key defence conference in Germany, although the Kremlin denied the weapons would change anything on the battlefield.
Google's parent company Alphabet announced about 12,000 job cuts globally on Friday, becoming the latest US tech giant to enact large-scale restructuring.
U.S. President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday launched a program to encourage ordinary Americans to sponsor refugees as admissions languish despite record displacement around the world.
The European Parliament on Thursday condemned what it described as a decline in press freedom in Morocco and said it was "concerned" by corruption allegations against Rabat.
Campaigners from Chad, Kashmir, and Venezuela on Thursday won the Martin Ennals Award, one of the world's most prestigious human rights prizes, with the jury hailing their "courage".
Holding COP28 climate talks in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates is an opportunity to ask "hard questions" on fossil fuels, the UN's climate chief told AFP on Thursday.
Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko vowed on Thursday he would run for president next year despite facing a trial for rape charges.
A notorious militia in eastern DR Congo, CODECO, on Thursday attacked a camp for displaced people, killing five children and two adults, and prompting protests against UN peacekeepers, local health and civil society representatives said.
A former Algerian energy minister was sentenced in absentia Thursday to 20 years in prison for corruption, the latest ruling against a top ally of late president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, local media reported.
The US Treasury began taking measures Thursday to prevent a default on government debt, as Congress heads towards a high-stakes clash between Democrats and Republicans over raising the borrowing limit.
Rwanda on Thursday accused Kinshasa of abandoning a deal aimed at bringing peace to DRC's volatile east as tensions spiral between the neighbors.
The European Parliament on Thursday called for a special tribunal to be set up that could try Russian President Vladimir Putin for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
Nigeria security forces have rescued the last two hostages from a high-profile train station kidnapping and arrested seven people, including two village chiefs, officials said this week.
France fears a repeat of its disastrous falling-out with Mali in junta-ruled Burkina Faso, where another domino in its military cooperation against West African jihadists could topple.
South Africa, which has resisted taking sides following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, announced Thursday it will stage 10-day joint maritime drills with Russia and China next month.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg accused attendees of the World Economic Forum in Davos of "fuelling the destruction of the planet" as she arrived at the event in the Swiss Alps on Thursday.
The Egyptian Bar Association announced Thursday an "unlimited" strike to condemn the imprisonment of six colleagues for a court brawl with three clerks earlier this month.
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