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A UAE official accused of overseeing torture is running for president of Interpol, while a Chinese official seeks a spot on the executive committee.

After 20 years in arbitrary detention, a former Guantánamo detainee was released from a United Arab Emirates prison to his family’s care in Yemen. His freedom lasted less than a week.

The aerial campaign in eastern Syria dislodged the terrorist group from the final patch of land it controlled but cost an untold number of lives.

In the years after the U.S. pledged to invest in human rights and rule of law, the Pentagon spent millions training elite Mexican units how to fight.

Saudi Arabia is withholding oil production because Biden won’t meet with Mohammed bin Salman after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the president suggested.

Business interests could be decisive in the looming election between Jair Bolsonaro, Lula da Silva, and a possible "third way" candidate.

The paramilitaries are targeting campesinos who are battling a corporate palm oil giant. But the armed groups, residents say, don’t act alone.

The situation is genuinely ominous, especially since there has never been a direct confrontation between the U.S. and another nuclear-armed power.

A Pentagon report treats the killing of an Afghan family as an innocent mistake -- and upholds a U.S. tradition of excusing war crimes.

When presented with the dossier, which was produced by Israel’s Shin Bet, European governments declined to cut funding to the groups.