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The UN food agency seeks $131 million to keep lifesaving support running through October.

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Meta Oversight Board Urges Caution on Global Community Notes Rollout

Costa Rica Severs Ties With Cuba, Closes Embassy and Orders Most Cuban Diplomats to Leave

Costa Rica Downgrades Relations With Cuba, Closes Embassy in Havana

U.S. Imposes New Visa Bans on 18 Iranian Officials Over Protest Crackdown and Internet Blackout

Canada Ties Any Iran Rapprochement to Regime Change, Adds New Sanctions

Amnesty Alleges North Korea Executes Schoolchildren Over South Korean Media

Amnesty Report Alleges North Korea Executes People for Consuming South Korean Media

Iran Detains Oscar-Nominated Writer Mehdi Mahmoudian After Letter Blaming Khamenei

Iran Crackdown Quells Street Protests as Washington Pauses Strike Threat and Imposes Sanctions

Iran Unrest Intensifies as 17-Year-Old Amir Ali Haydari’s Killing Becomes a Flashpoint

Amnesty Warns of Pre‑Election Repression in Uganda, Calls for Impartial Probes

UN Mission Says Venezuela’s National Guard Committed Crimes Against Humanity Over a Decade

Russia Formally Bans Human Rights Watch as ‘Undesirable’

Russia Declares Human Rights Watch 'Undesirable,' Banning Its Work

Iphan Finalizes Heritage Listing of Former DOPS HQ in Rio as First Federal Traumatic-Memory Site

Internet Cut, Curfew Imposed as Post‑Election Unrest Hits Tanzania

Machado Backs Israel in Netanyahu Call, Presses Lula to Tell Maduro to Leave

UN Expert Says Russia Intensifies Systematic Repression to Crush Anti‑War Dissent

UN Report Finds North Korea’s Repression Deepening, With Executions for Foreign Media