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UN rights chief appeals for $400 million as crises mount and funding shrinks
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk appealed for $40...
5th February, 2026
Human Rights
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Germany's Merz heads to Saudi, Gulf in quest for new partners
BERLIN, Feb 4 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz began a tour of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and t...
4th February, 2026
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Trump has attacked pillars of democracy, says Human Rights Watch
By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has attacked key pill...
4th February, 2026
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Fifteen migrants died off Greece after boat collision with coast guard
ATHENS, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Fifteen migrants died in the Aegean Sea off Greece on Tuesday after their...
4th February, 2026
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Libya's Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who crushed dissent then sought political comeback, dies at 53
By Michael Georgy Feb 3 (Reuters) - Libya's Saif al-Islam Gaddafi went from his notorious father's h...
3rd February, 2026
Finance
China to lift restrictions on UK lawmakers, PM Starmer says
SHANGHAI, Jan 30 (Reuters) - China is set to lift restrictions which it had imposed on a group of Br...
30th January, 2026
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UK and 23 other OSCE members launch probe into Georgia over rights concerns
LONDON, Jan 29 - Britain, Canada, Germany and 21 other OSCE members on Thursday said they would laun...
29th January, 2026
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UN experts condemn US move to strip migrant children of legal aid
By Jasper Ward Jan 27 (Reuters) - U.N. human rights experts on Tuesday denounced the Trump administr...
27th January, 2026
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UN experts denounce Switzerland for sentencing students over Gaza protests
By Emma Farge GENEVA, Jan 27 (Reuters) - U.N. human rights experts have protested to Bern after a gr...
27th January, 2026
Finance
Spain to grant around half a million undocumented migrants legal status
MADRID, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Spain's Socialist-led government presented a draft decree on Tuesday to e...
27th January, 2026
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Saudi dissident awarded $4.1 million by UK court for hacking, assault 'by Saudi Arabia'
LONDON, Jan 26 (Reuters) - A Saudi human rights activist who accuses Saudi Arabia of targeting him w...
26th January, 2026
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Former Philippines president Duterte fit for pre-trial hearings, ICC judges rule
THE HAGUE, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have ruled that octog...
26th January, 2026