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UN rights council to hold emergency session on Iran, document shows

GENEVA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session on Iran in t...

20th January, 2026

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Two Lisbon policemen charged with torturing vagrants and migrants, and sharing images

LISBON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Two Lisbon police officers have been charged with torturing vagrants and...

16th January, 2026

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Myanmar tells World Court Gambia has not proven Rohingya genocide case

THE HAGUE, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Myanmar told the United Nations' top court on Friday that Gambia had n...

16th January, 2026

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Greek court acquits aid workers of migrant-smuggling charges

LESBOS, Greece, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Over two dozen aid workers involved in refugee rescues in Greece...

16th January, 2026

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Italy urges its citizens to leave Iran because of security concerns

ROME, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Italy has strongly renewed an appeal to its citizens to leave Iran because...

14th January, 2026

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Migrants using more distant, riskier departure points to Canaries after Mauritania crackdown, Red Cross finds

By Charlie Devereux and Borja Suarez MADRID, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Migrants crossing from West Africa t...

14th January, 2026

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Why Iran’s clerical establishment still holds as protests rage

By Samia Nakhoul DUBAI, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Despite Iran's nationwide protests and years of external...

13th January, 2026

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UN rights office says hundreds killed in Iran protests

By Emma Farge GENEVA, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday that he was "ho...

13th January, 2026

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Trump urges Iranians to keep protesting, says 'help is on its way'

DUBAI, Jan 13 - An Iranian parliamentarian said on Tuesday the government will face even bigger prot...

13th January, 2026

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Ukraine's Zelenskiy: world must help Iran engineer change

Jan 12 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that the world had to help...

12th January, 2026

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Italy to upgrade relations with Venezuela as two more Italians freed

ROME, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Venezuela has released Italian citizens Alberto Trentini and Mario Burlo fr...

12th January, 2026

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Myanmar made Rohingya lives a nightmare, Gambia tells genocide case

THE HAGUE, Jan 12 (Reuters) - A landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against minori...

12th January, 2026