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Image for Norway increases support for deported Ukrainian children
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Norway increases support for deported Ukrainian children

OSLO, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Norway is increasing its support for humanitarian efforts to help deported...

29th September, 2026

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UN experts call for halt to Trump policy of migrant deportations to third countries

GENEVA, Sept 28 (Reuters) - More than a dozen UN human rights experts have written to the US governm...

28th September, 2026

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Belarus president Lukashenko frees 15 more prisoners in wake of US talks

Sept 24 (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pardoned 15 prisoners in a decree on T...

24th September, 2026

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Western countries increase support for slavery reparations, Ghana says

By Doyinsola Oladipo UNITED NATIONS, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Ghana, which has led a campaign for reparat...

24th September, 2026

Image for International Criminal Court convicts Central African militia leader
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International Criminal Court convicts Central African militia leader

By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Judges at the International Criminal Court...

23rd September, 2026

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Pope Leo urges global action to help child migrants

VATICAN CITY, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Pope Leo lamented on Wednesday conditions suffered by migrant and...

23rd September, 2026

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Exclusive-Wife of US seismologist held in China says Trump will ask Xi to free him

By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - The wife of a US expert on North Korean nuclear t...

23rd September, 2026

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Belarusian man back in Swiss court over disappearance of 3 Lukashenko opponents

By Marleen Kaesebier ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A lawyer representing relatives of...

22nd September, 2026

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Nicaragua's crackdown on opponents amounts to crimes against humanity, UN experts say

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Nicaragua's state institutions have together carri...

22nd September, 2026

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Russia has intensified repression of critics overseas, UN expert says

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Russia has intensified surveillance, intimidation...

21st September, 2026

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Widespread sexual violence in Ukraine war, most cases tied to Russia, says UN report

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Russian forces committed widespread sexual violenc...

18th September, 2026

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Red Cross says no access to Ukrainian POWs in two years

(Corrects to change date of meeting in Moscow in paragraph 5 from "last month" to July) GENEVA, Sept...

18th September, 2026