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Three months into Iran's crackdown on coverage of widespread protests, media analysts remain troubled by the dozens of journalist arrests and reports of abuse in detention centers."Right now is probably the worst time to ever be a journalist in Iran," ...

ABUJA, NIGERIA — Nigerian police say they are investigating an officer who shot and killed an unarmed pregnant lawyer after she left a Christmas church service. A spokesman for the Lagos city police vowed the investigation would be swift but critics sa...

DAKAR, SENEGAL — The accounts are haunting. Abductions, torture, rapes. Scores of civilians, including women and children, have been killed by the M23 rebels in eastern Congo, according to a U.N. reportIn addition, the M23 rebels have forced children t...

Support staff for Malawi's judiciary system has ended a week-long labor strike after the government promised to consider its demands next year. The government has told the workers that it will honor their grievances in April 2023.The striking judicial ...

A Libyan court sentenced 17 former members of the Islamic State group to death, a statement from the country's Tripoli-based top prosecutor said on Monday.The death sentences were given out to those convicted of participating in the killing of 53 peopl...

Britain’s High Court ruled Monday that the government’s controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is legal.The British government has reached an agreement with Rwanda that would deport migrants who arrived in Britain illegally on a one-way tr...

Teenaged boys in the United States are increasingly becoming ensnared in online financial "sextortion schemes," impacting at least 3,000 victims and leading to more than a dozen suicides so far, U.S. Justice Department officials warned on Monday.FBI an...

LONDON— UK high court judges were on Monday due to rule on challenges to the British government’s controversial policy of deporting migrants and asylum-seekers to Rwanda.Irregular migration is a thorny political issue for the UK government which promis...