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India Sends Army Chief to Kashmir as Tensions Rise with Pakistan

Gen. Upendra Dwivedi, four-star general of the Indian army, arrived in Kashmir on Friday to assess the security situation after Tuesday’s deadly terrorist attack. India has accused Pakistan of facilitating the attack, moving the two nuclear-armed nations to the brink of conflict.

Chief of the Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi pays homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his death

Rwanda Marks 31 Years Since Genocide

The United Nations marked Monday, April 7 as the 31st anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, in which a million men, women, and children from the Tutsi tribe were slaughtered, along with members of the rival Hutu tribe who spoke out against the bloodbath. 

People light candles during a night vigil at Nyanza Genocide Memorial Center as part of th

Kenyan Police Take Casualties Fighting Gangs in Haiti

Two Kenyan police officers were seriously injured in battles with Haitian street gangs this week, while an officer who went missing last week has reportedly been killed – the second fatality in Kenya’s peacekeeping deployment to gang-ravaged Haiti.

Kenyan police officers arrive at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Pri

China Jails over 1,500 in Six-Year Crackdown on Dissent

Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), a non-governmental human rights organization, released a report on Wednesday that found over 1,500 people have been arbitrarily detained by the Chinese Communist government over the past six years in a wide-ranging crackdown on dissent.

Activists tear a caricature of Chinese President Xi Jinping during a protest near the Chin

U.N. Judge Accused of Tricking Young Woman into Slavery

Ugandan High Court Judge Lydia Mugambe, who sits on a United Nations criminal tribunal, made her first appearance in British court on Thursday to face charges of tricking a young Ugandan woman into serving as her slave while she studied at Oxford.

Lydia Mugambe

Israel Leaves U.N. Human Rights Council

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on Thursday that his nation has withdrawn from the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) because the organization protects abusers of human rights around the world, pushes antisemitic rhetoric, and constantly harasses Israel.

Israeli Flag draped (Joel Pollak)

Uganda and Rwanda Get More Involved in Congo Guerilla War

Uganda has reportedly dispatched another thousand soldiers into the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), joining a rapidly-escalating battle in which a vicious Rwanda-supported insurgency called M23 has captured a regional capital and set its sights on the seat of government in Kinshasa.

An M23 officer talks to prospective recruits in Goma on February 6, 2025. More than a week