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Deadly "Double-Tap" Strike on Zelensky's Hometown Kills Over a Dozen, Renews War-Crime Allegations Against Russia

Background

Kryvyi Rih, an industrial city of roughly 600,000 people in central Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, has endured repeated Russian air attacks over the more than four years of Russia's full-scale invasion, but it holds a particular symbolic weight: it is the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.…
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A Kenyan Court Just Said Ruto's Election Was Due Last Week. It Also Said: Not Yet.

Nairobi, Kenya  

Kenya is navigating a constitutional puzzle of its own making after a High Court judge ruled that the country's next presidential election was constitutionally due on Aug. 11, 2026 — nine days before this story published — and then immediately suspended her own declaration to prevent the…
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UN Warns South Sudan Risks New Atrocity Crimes as Juba Rejects Foreign Pressure Over December Election

JUBA, South Sudan  

South Sudan spent this week caught between two irreconcilable messages about its own future. On Thursday, a United Nations-backed panel of independent experts warned that the country's first national elections since independence, scheduled for Dec. 22, could reignite the…
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Russia's Overnight Barrage Kills at Least 14 in Kyiv, Exposing an Air-Defense Gap Widened by the War in Iran

Background

Ukraine's war with Russia is now in its fifth year, tracing back to Moscow's full-scale invasion in February 2022 and, before that, the 2014 seizure of Crimea. According to the Council on Foreign Relations' running conflict tracker, the war has killed more than a million people on both sides when military and…
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Amnesty Demands Independent Probe as Fatal Shooting Shadows Hichilema's Re-Election in Zambia

LUSAKA, Zambia  

Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema begins a second five-year term under the darkest cloud of his political career: a fatal shooting of an opposition figure by security forces, a crackdown on dissent that human rights monitors say is intensifying, and international observers who have…
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Arrest of Former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor Splits Liberia's Anti-Drug Crackdown Along Political Lines

MONROVIA, Liberia 

Liberia's escalating war on drug trafficking arrived at the doorstep of the country's political establishment this week, when security forces stopped former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor from boarding an international flight, detained her for questioning, and ultimately charged her…