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  • Putin critic Semyon Skrepetsky shot dead in Poland

    Russian artist well-known for satirising President Vladimir Putin has been shot dead in eastern Poland, officials the Russian Federation...known in the media as Semyon Skrepetsky," a spokesman for the prosecutor's office According to Polish officials, Skrepetsky, whose real name is Robert Kuzovkov, was shot three times on two detained Belarusians, Kozak said, adding that "they remain at the disposal of the prosecutor's office In 2025, the opposition leader's widow, Yulia Navalnaya, announced that tests carried out by foreign

  • no blank check': Syrian leader told to rein in jihadis

    To hammer home the message, three European envoys made clear in a March 11 meeting with Foreign Minister Reuters spoke to the three European envoys as well as four regional officials during a trip to Damascus The security forces need to be cleaned up," said one European envoy, who was among the group of officials insurgent groups or unemployment, worsening Syria's instability, according to five European and Arab officials Neither Sharaa's office nor the Syrian foreign ministry responded to requests for comment for this story

  • Ethiopia accuses Eritrea of preparing for war, Tensions Rise

    Ethiopia's accusation is contained in a letter sent by its Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos to UN chief After Abiy took office in 2018, he ended tensions by building a strong alliance with Eritrea's President BBC Amharic has contacted the Ethiopian foreign ministry to confirm the authenticity of the letter, but In his response, Debretsion said the foreign minister's letter contained "fabricated stories and smear Ethiopia's privately owned Addis Standard newspaper reported that the foreign minister's letter accused

  • Rights Group Seeks Arrest of ex-Sri Lanka President

    resignation from Singapore, a day after fleeing on July 13, when anti-government protesters stormed the offices and official residences of the president and the prime minister. The country’s foreign ministry has said Rajapaksa entered the Southeast Asian city-state on a private “While neutrality is not officially enshrined in Singapore’s foreign policy, it has long cultivated a “Any decision to prosecute a former foreign head of state has to be balanced against its foreign policy

  • Bolivia After One Year of Paz: Judicial Meltdown

    RALDES/AFP via Getty Images The Briefing: Bolivia's President Rodrigo Paz completed his first year in office Paz took the oath of office on November 8, 2025, following a runoff victory that ended nearly two decades The government accused him of leading a criminal organization within the attorney general's office that The legislature subsequently removed him from office and named an interim replacement. A New Foreign Policy Direction The clearest area of consensus achievement was foreign policy.

  • The Islamic State has regrouped in Somalia

    Before long, al-Karrar, the group’s regional financial office, had established a nerve center, funneling out by foreigners. A Puntland intelligence officer explained how recruits had been targeted in waves. “This road up here leads nowhere except other [Islamic State] bases,” a Somali officer   said, pointing (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)   Missing partners Senior officers in Puntland say they have

  • USCIRF Applauds Global Magnitsky Sanctions Against Senior Chinese Officials

    Global Magnitsky Act and the Department of State’s imposition of visa restrictions on senior Chinese officials the administration to impose targeted sanctions against Chen Quanguo, Zhu Hailun, and other senior officials “We urge the administration to keep up the pressure by refusing to send U.S. officials to the 2022 Winter In its 2020 Annual Report, USCIRF called for targeted sanctions against Chen and other Chinese officials USCIRF makes foreign policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress intended

  • Special Report: The Islamic State-K - A Resurgent Threat

    Beginning in 2014, IS accepted pledges of loyalty from militant Salafi groups, and IS-K officially became Below the GDP sit regional “offices” (makatib); IS-K falls under the al-Siddiq Office, based in Afghanistan It relies on targeted attacks against Taliban officials, foreign missions, and minorities, and on propaganda Foreign fighter inflow has been a “trickle” rather than a windfall, and the destruction of the caliphate infighting have created openings IS-K is already exploiting, such as its assassination of a senior Taliban official

  • Head of new crisis panel urges access to Myanmar's Rakhine State

    Surakiart Sathirathai, a former Thai foreign minister, also expressed concern at the arrest of two Reuters crisis in the western state, were arrested in Yangon on Dec. 12 on suspicion of violating Myanmar’s Official The former Thai foreign minister also said his advisory board would seek to engage with all groups in “We want to help bring about tangible progress.” https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-myanmar-rohingya-surakiart

  • Brazil: gunpoint search of African diplomats' children

    after three diplomats’ teenage children – all of whom are Black – were searched at gunpoint by police officers Two officers jumped out, ordered the boys to face the wall and searched them at gunpoint. Rondon, the mother of one of the Brazilian boys, said the Black teens were singled out by the police officers “The officer guided my son much more gently because he is white, while the three Black youths had guns In a statement to a state parliament committee, the teenagers said the officers “even demanded that they

  • The RSF Have Restarted the Genocide in Darfur. We Must Act.

    Last week the UK’s development minister, Andrew Mitchell, said crimes against humanity was “entirely Leadership from the British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, and the foreign secretary, James Cleverly, along The UK must listen far more to the people who know and understand this violence best. I told the House of Commons foreign affairs select committee last month that the UK made a catastrophic Ultimately, as the chairs of both the international development and foreign affairs select committees

  • Bolivia Close Gaps Exploited by Organized Crime

    By: Guillermo Saavedra/Diálogo Published: October 30th, 2026 Officers with Bolivia’s FELCN guard the Bolivia will establish a permanent Brazilian Federal Police office in La Paz while Bolivia gains reciprocal The office would facilitate information sharing and coordination against criminals crossing the border According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2025 Coca Crop Monitoring Report, released Throughout 2026, FELCN strengthened foreign trade controls to prevent exports from being used to conceal

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