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Édouard Balladur, Embattled French Prime Minister, Dies at 97

2 septembre 2026 à 19:09
His time in office coincided with France’s fraught role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the corruption scandal known as the Karachi affair.

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Édouard Balladur in 1995, when he ran a failed campaign for the French presidency; he had served as prime minister between 1993 and 1995.

These Generals Fought for Israel. Now They See ‘Jewish Terrorism’ as the Threat.

31 août 2026 à 05:00
A growing number of former Israeli generals, intelligence officials and prime ministers are accusing settlers in the West Bank of committing ethnic cleansing with government support. “Once a society behaves this way,” one said, “that society is doomed.”

Israeli flags lined the roadside next to Palestinian farms in an area of the Jordan Valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Ratko Mladic, Murderous ‘Butcher of Bosnia,’ Dies at 83

27 août 2026 à 12:57
A general during the Balkan wars of the 1990s, he was convicted in the killing of some 8,000 Muslims at Srebrenica, Europe’s deadliest massacre since World War II.

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Ratko Mladic in Sarajevo in 1994. He was captured in 2011 and put on trial for genocide and war crimes.

Airstrikes and Illegal Mining Add to Myanmar’s Troubles

25 août 2026 à 14:48
A thriving ‘conflict economy’ is extracting minerals while the military and armed groups inflict abuse on civilians, according to a new report on the scale of recent violence in Myanmar.

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Destroyed buildings after military airstrikes in May in Kyauktaw, a town in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State.

Israel Opens Criminal Investigation Into Killings of Hind Rajab and Gaza Medical Workers

19 août 2026 à 16:18
Two high-profile cases that had spurred international condemnation of the country’s conduct in Gaza were transferred to the military police. Such investigations have rarely led to convictions.

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A car where the bodies of Hind Rajab, a Palestinian girl, and her family were found in Gaza City after an Israeli strike in 2024.

Bou Meng, Rare Survivor of Khmer Rouge Torture House, Dies at 85

15 août 2026 à 21:34
Saved by his ability to paint, he was one of only a handful of prisoners to make it out of the brutal prison Tuol Sleng.

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Bou Meng, who was imprisoned at the notorious Khmer Rouge interrogation and torture facility Tuol Sleng, in 2009 at the prison, which became a genocide museum.

Will Sudan’s El Obeid Become the Next El Fasher? What to Know.

14 août 2026 à 00:01
Taking El Obeid would allow the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to consolidate its hold on western Sudan, a significant strategic goal.

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Women gathering for a hot meal in al-Rahmaniyah camp for displaced people near the city of El-Obeid in the southern Kordofan region of Sudan last month.

Syria Sentences Former President al-Assad to Death for Crimes Against Humanity

11 août 2026 à 11:00
The former president was convicted of crimes against humanity during the country’s civil war, the first verdict since he fled to Russia in 2024.

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President Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s former leader, in Damascus in 2023.
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