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Survivors of Bosnia ‘rape camps’ come forward 30 years on
AFP, Published on 17/06/2025
» SARAJEVO - It took years for Zehra Murguz to be able to testify about what happened to her and other Muslim women in the “rape camps” run by Serb forces during the war in Bosnia.
Haiti jazz festival is rare respite for violence-racked capital
AFP, Published on 07/04/2025
» PORT-AU-PRINCE - Residents of Haiti's gang-plagued capital could enjoy a brief escape from daily lives scarred with violence this weekend as the PapJazz festival entertained around 100 music fans.
Ex-Barcelona star Dani Alves has rape conviction overturned
AFP, Published on 29/03/2025
» MADRID - A Spanish appeals court overturned Friday former Brazil international footballer Dani Alves' rape conviction, citing insufficient evidence.
Rwandan and Congolese leaders discuss worsening conflict
AFP, Published on 08/02/2025
» BUKAVU, DR Congo - Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his Congolese counterpart Felix Tshisekedi joined a summit in Tanzania on Saturday where regional leaders called for an “immediate ceasefire” in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
DR Congo conflict advances as UN warns of regional escalation
AFP, Published on 08/02/2025
» BUKAVU (DR CONGO) - The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group was threatening another key town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, as the United Nations top rights body said it would launch an investigation into alleged violations and abuses during the deadly clashes gripping the African nation.
Life ruined: UK town broken by 'rape grooming' gangs wants answers
AFP, Published on 03/02/2025
» ROTHERHAM, United Kingdom - Once famed as an industrial powerhouse that produced some of the world's finest steel, Rotherham is now known as the epicentre of the UK grooming scandal, leaving the town angry, ashamed and needing answers.
US starts relocating Marines from Okinawa
Published on 14/12/2024
» TOKYO - The United States has begun relocating thousands of Marines from the Japanese island of Okinawa, officials in Tokyo and Washington said on Saturday, after decades of mounting grievances among locals over America’s military presence.
No place on earth is worse off than Sudan
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/11/2024
» There are wars in the world worse than those in Ukraine and Gaza. The war in Sudan is insanely cruel and stupid, but you hardly hear anything about it. Why not? Because, like me, other journalists hate writing about it and avoid doing so if they can.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces sex trafficking charges
Published on 17/09/2024
» NEW YORK - Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs faces three US federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution, according to an indictment unsealed on Tuesday.
'Bulldozer justice' reigns in an unchanging India
Oped, Published on 11/09/2024
» Politically motivated bulldozing has returned with a vengeance in India. Earlier this month in the state of Madhya Pradesh, a local Muslim leader and member of the opposition Congress party watched his home, supposedly "illegally built", reduced to rubble. A district official then gloated on social media that justice had been served for recent attacks on the police. Meanwhile, in the neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh, bulldozers flattened an "illegal" shopping complex owned by a Muslim functionary of an opposition party who had recently been arrested on charges of gang-raping a minor girl.