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An attack on a military base in southern Colombia killed four civilians, including a two-month-old baby, President Abelardo de la Espriella said Monday, as drug gangs and rebel groups step up violence in response to his government’s new security strategy. The attack occurred Sunday night in Planadas...

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has said he is open to making a formal apology for Britain’s role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, a significant shift in the U.K.'s position in a long-running debate on whether — and how — the country should right the wrongs of its past. Ahead of his meeting with...

Today, the United Nations Security Council renewed the mandate of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia for a further year through resolution 2833 (2026). The decision, unanimously adopted, reaffirms the support that the Security Council, and the United Nations as a whole, has extended...

United Nations human rights experts said Wednesday that Nicaragua’s co-presidents have established a dictatorship and that there are “reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed.” The expert group has been investigating allegations of human rights violations and...

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has vowed that dictatorship and fascism will never return to Brazil after winning a historic fourth term in power by defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro. “This is God’s work – and it’s thanks to all of you,” Lula told tens of...

A Colombian judge on Monday ordered the nation’s government to protect more than 30 historical artifacts that officials removed from exhibits in Bogota’s National Museum last week, as part of an effort by Colombia’s conservative government to change how the nation’s history is told in museums and...

In Haiti, security forces are intensifying their operations, but the gangs are not giving up. They are adapting their tactics, increasing reprisals against civilians and spreading violence to rural areas, according to the Secretary-General’s latest report. “What is particularly worrying is the gangs...

A month before the tenth anniversary of the signing of Colombia’s 2016 Peace Agreement, the UN Security Council reviewed its implementation under the new Administration of President Abelardo Gabriel de la Espriella, who assumed office on 7 August, amid hopes that the gains achieved over the past...

A woman opens a 300‑year‑old box, unleashing a violent spirit—it is the spirit of colonialism and oppression roaring back to life. It is a pivotal scene in Sky’s supernatural series Possession and symbolizes a wider shift in Jamaica’s film industry, where directors are increasingly using the...

Colombia’s transitional justice system, established to address crimes committed during the country’s decades-long civil conflict, has indicted several former members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), formerly the country’s largest rebel group. A group of 10 ex-rebels were charged...