More than 500 political prisoners are thought to still be in jail, despite the releases since the amnesty law was brought in.
Local elections are held in the occupied West Bank and in one Gazan city, though Hamas and other groups are not taking part.
Witnesses report explosions and sustained gunfire near a military base outside the capital, Bamako.
The city of Dnipro was hardest hit, with officials saying four died in a strike on a residential building.
Many died due to conditions at a Florida warehouse where they’d been shipped, while others arrived from South America dead, authorities say.
The inaugural top 20 is entirely made up of female authors, with Chloe Walsh appearing most frequently.
The spouses of illegal immigrants facing deportation must choose between separation or moving to a new country.
Stuck between public opinion hostile to the Trump administration, and the economic and defence capability necessities of trying to keep Washington onside as much as possible,...
Tshering Sherpa, chief executive officer of the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, a local NGO in the Everest region, echoed the same message, adding that it was...
Though this may seem like something of an internet niche, young men are paying attention. Almost two-thirds of boys and men aged 16-25 in the UK,...
Several black Zambians tell the BBC they sometimes feel like they are second-class citizens in their own country.
Teresa Helm, a survivor of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, says a meeting with King Charles and Queen Camilla would “demonstrate human dignity”. Speaking to the...
