DAKAR, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Mauritanian security forces have committed "serious human rights violations" against migrants and asylum seekers ranging from torture to rape over the past five years, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday in a report. The country has become a key staging post for undocumented migrants from across the African continent who take a dangerous sea route from west Africa to Europe, with many heading for Spain. The rights group said that the abuses were "exacerbated" by the European Union and Spain which had continued to outsource their immigration management to Mauritania, including by supporting its border and migration control authorities. The 142-page report covered violations between 2020 and early 2025 committed by the Mauritanian police, coast...
BANGKOK, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A Thai woman who received one of the kingdom's longest ever royal insult sentences was freed from prison on...
WASHINGTON, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Neighbors, volunteers and parents escorted children to the first day of the new school year across Washington on Monday,...
LONDON, Aug 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - UK police will be trained to recognise the signs of honour-based abuse and victims encouraged to come forward as...
BELGRADE, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Serbia's largest oil producer was given another 30-day reprieve from sanctions by the United States, the sixth deferral for...
CHISINAU, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The leaders of France, Germany and Poland are due in Moldova on Wednesday in a show of support, a...
JERUSALEM, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Israeli police said Wednesday that security forces seized roughly 1.5 million shekels ($447,000) of "terror funds" during a raid...
NEW DELHI, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - India could be banned from world football for the second time in three years after FIFA and the...
TEHRAN, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Iranian forces have killed 13 militants in a raid in the restive southeast, state media reported Wednesday, adding they...
POREPUNKAH, Australia, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Police searched the Australian bush on Wednesday for a heavily armed 56-year-old gunman still on the run a...
SARAJEVO, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Bosnia's national museum has defended a decision to donate funds from the display of a precious Jewish manuscript to...
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog has said a team of its inspectors are "back in Iran," the...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Russian strikes on the strategic Ukrainian port city of Kherson killed an 81-year-old woman Wednesday and wounded two...