A new report alleges that mismanagement at a massive Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Texas produced unsafe conditions that contributed to detainees’ deaths and suffering even as millions of tax dollars were wasted on contractors
June 10, 2026
Pope Leo calls war a ‘painful defeat’ of negotiations as Israel and Iran trade worst strikes in months
June 08, 2026
President Donald Trump's threat to slap new tariffs on trade partners the U.S. accuses of failing to crack down
June 05, 2026
China on Thursday blasted U.S.
June 04, 2026
Beijing's censorship cannot erase memories of its 1989 military assault on peaceful demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, U.S.
June 04, 2026
Felicia de la Caridad Alvarez, a resident of Old Havana, knows a thing or two about survival.
June 03, 2026
A former Syrian intelligence chief in the city of Raqqa went on trial in Austria on charges of torture and sexual abuse on Monday over the mistreatment of
June 01, 2026
Ukrainian player Oleksandra Oliynykova has vowed to keep speaking out about the war at home after losing to Russian player Diana Shnaider in the third round of the French Open
May 30, 2026
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has cast Pope Leo XIV as a global ally on social justice, migration and reparations after meeting the Chicago-born pontiff at the Vatican
May 29, 2026
The Trump administration has deported nearly 13,000 Cubans, Venezuelans and others to Mexico, where they face cartel violence and limited legal options
May 27, 2026
South African activists detained while trying to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza have alleged abuse by Israeli soldiers
May 23, 2026
Millions of Palestinians are marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba
May 15, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump says Chinese President Xi Jinping is considering the case of detained pastor Ezra Jin Mingri
May 15, 2026
Open Society Foundations, the family philanthropy founded by hedge fund billionaire George Soros, is putting $30 million toward groups fighting antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate
May 13, 2026
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May 13, 2026
First on CNN: New report details ‘systematic’ rape and sexual violence during Hamas’ Oct 7 attack on Israel
May 12, 2026
Two activists arrested last month when Israeli forces intercepted the Gaza-bound flotilla they were travelling on are expected to be deported in the coming days after
May 09, 2026
Iran’s imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi, has been urgently transferred to a hospital after a severe health decline
May 01, 2026
The entire jury of the Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition has resigned, organisers said on Thursday, a week after the panel announced it would
April 30, 2026
In a parking lot strewn with rubbish near Beirut's Mediterranean coast, Hassan Yahya has taped a cardboard sign to a traffic signal pole beside the
April 30, 2026
The Supreme Court seems likely to grant tech giant Cisco’s bid to shut down a lawsuit claiming that the company’s technology was used to persecute members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement in China
April 28, 2026
Authorities in Tunisia have ordered a one-month suspension of the Tunisian League for Human Rights
April 25, 2026
Venezuelan women have spent the year protesting to demand the release of hundreds of political prisoners
April 24, 2026
Amnesty International and U.S. civil rights groups have issued a “World Cup travel advisory," warning visitors about “rising authoritarianism and increasing violence" in the U.S. under President Donald Trump's immigration policies
April 24, 2026
Pope Leo's
April 22, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has denounced the “colonization” of minerals and the “lust for power” in Equatorial Guinea at the end of his four-nation African trip
April 21, 2026
Pope Leo warned on Tuesday that humanity's future is at risk of being "tragically compromised" because of
April 21, 2026
Eileen Gu is at the top of her sport. Now, she’s out to fight ‘the bad guys’
April 18, 2026
Myanmar's new President Min Aung Hlaing has approved an amnesty for 4,335 prisoners, state television reported on Friday, the third such move in the past six months.
April 17, 2026
Palestinians in
March 31, 2026
Pope Leo XIV has arrived in the central African nation of Cameroon on the second leg of his Africa tour
April 15, 2026
Families wrapped their arms around freed loved ones outside Cuban prisons on Friday
April 04, 2026
According to documents viewed by The Associated Press, a three-judge panel says the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court can potentially resume his duties following a sexual misconduct investigation
April 02, 2026
Cuba’s government says it will release 51 people from prisons in an unexpected move
March 13, 2026
Seven members of Iranian women’s soccer team granted visas as rest of squad leaves Australia
March 10, 2026
Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 18 more prisoners as part of his recent effort at a rapprochement with the United States
March 07, 2026
The faces of Mexico’s disappeared paint the streets of Mexico’s second biggest city of Guadalajara
February 27, 2026
From the civil rights era of the 1960s until today, white victims of government violence have received disproportionate attention.
February 24, 2026
A Chicago teen who spoke out for her father’s release after he was detained last fall by immigration officials has died after battling a rare form of cancer
February 15, 2026
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law
February 08, 2026
Families in hiding and defiant observers: This is Minneapolis in the wake of the so-called ICE ‘drawdown’
February 08, 2026
A federal judge has given the government until next Thursday to reach an agreement with human rights lawyers in Minnesota
February 06, 2026
‘We can’t win this alone’: Ukraine’s flag bearer urges world not to forget war, hints at protest over IOC’s neutral policy
February 06, 2026
The father of a 5-year-old boy detained by immigration officers in Texas denies abandoning his son
February 02, 2026
After the regime ‘disappeared’ their children, Argentina’s Madres de la Plaza de Maya relentlessly demanded justice – and exposed the atrocities of a dictatorship.
January 27, 2026
More than 7 months after an antisemitic attack in Boulder, a family who says they knew nothing is still detained by ICE
January 28, 2026
Trump admin deports Iranians for first time since brutal crackdown on protests
January 26, 2026
‘Utterly Stateless’: Inside a detention camp for ISIS-linked women and children amid escalating uncertainty in Syria
January 26, 2026
The Minnesota Timberwolves and Golden State Warriors have returned to the court after their game was postponed following the fatal shooting of a man in Minneapolis by federal immigration officers
January 26, 2026
Taiwan briefly slows its mobile internet to text-only speed as part of defense drill
Why UK food inflation has yet to surge
Reform UK's Farage faces off against Count Binface in election
Italy's Meloni has a youth problem as election approaches
Emails reveal Indian carmakers' fuel contamination worries before public retreat
UK GDP bounced in June, helped by Gulf ceasefire, World Cup and sunshine
Dodgers' Freddie Freeman somehow avoids serious injury in frightening fall into visitors' dugout