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Floyd's death sparked outrage in many countries forcing governments globally to confront their own race issues.

According to Pen America, a freedom of expression advocacy organization, in 2020, at least 273 writers, academics, and public intellectuals in 35 countries were in prison or unjustly held in detention in connection with their writing, their work, or related activism. It’s a considerable uptick from the organization’s estimate of at least 238 writers and public intellectuals in 2019. And the pandemic is in part to blame.

The case is considered a bellwether for the rule of law in India.

He emerged as a powerful Western military ally against Islamist extremism, even as his government acquired a reputation for corruption, nepotism and human rights abuses.

Déby, a close Western ally, had just won his sixth term in office running largely unopposed.

He participated in an important breakthrough as part of a British-French force.

With Merkel’s party in disarray, the Greens also have a shot at power.

The 2019 ban on religious symbols has drawn protests in Quebec and opposition across Canada.

The E.U. decision came ahead of an expected U.S. move to resume using the vaccine later this week.

The painful toll is part of the point: The weakening and wasting of the body shows strength of determination.

Ukraine’s foreign minister seeks “painful” economic sanctions as a deterrent against Russia.

Negative reaction to the proposed Super League in Europe, including warnings for the breakaway teams from FIFA President Gianni Infantino and from Premier League owners.

Environmentalists had hoped that pandemic-related declines in emissions-fueling activity might signal a shift in consumption that could continue.

It's the second time in two years that a suspected poacher has been killed by animals in Kruger National Park.

The sight of the United States — a close ally with which Canada frequently compares itself — speeding ahead with vaccinations has deepened domestic anger.

Propaganda rewrites the logic of the national security law and paints legitimate democratic aspirations as the work of foreign forces.

The European Union’s foreign policy chief says that in the face of the big military buildup of Russian troops near Ukraine’s borders, it will only take “a spark” to set off a confrontation

New Delhi has imposed a weeklong lockdown to prevent the collapse of the Indian capital’s health system amid an explosive surge in coronavirus cases

A lawyer says Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in the third week of a hunger strike while behind bars, was moved to a hospital in another prison after his doctor said he could be near death

A report commissioned by the Rwandan government concludes that the French government bears “significant” responsibility for “enabling a foreseeable genocide” that left more than 800,000 dead in 1994

Pakistan’s interior minister says an outlawed Islamist political group has freed 11 police it had held hostage in the eastern city of Lahore amid clashes with security forces