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Nalreaq's Qarsoq Hoeegh-Dam from Greenland, Inuti Ataqatigiit's Naaja H. Nathanielsen from Greenland and Minister of Health and Church Affairs Ida Auken during a meeting in the Folketing Hall at Christiansborg, Copenhagen, Thurdsay, Aug. 27, 2026. The meeting includes a vote on compentation in the so called "spiral case". (Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix via AP) NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Two reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland...

These women and their children were among Rohingya refugees evicted from their homes in Malaysia / (c) Reuters Not long ago, Malaysia's then-prime minister urged his country to protect Rohingya Muslims – a stateless minority that has fled violence and discrimination in Myanmar for decades. "We must defend them, not just because they are of the same faith, but [because] they are humans, their lives have value," Najib Razak said in 2017. Nine years on, a fierce new wave of hostility against the...

Children's Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza has described the situation as an "unacceptable failure". Most of those who went missing are now 18 and over. File pic Forty people who went missing from asylum seeker hotels as children years ago have still not been found. All but two of them are now adults, parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights said in a new report. England's Children's Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza has described their ongoing disappearance as an "unacceptable failure"...

The Trump administration has ramped up deportations to third countries in an apparent bid to deter cross-border immigration. US President Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation campaign in his country's history [File: Moises Castillo/AP Photo] The United States has sent about 2,300 Mexican nationals to Guatemala, despite objections from the Mexican government, as President Donald Trump steps up deportations. Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo confirmed on Wednesday...

Far-right minister says those convicted in military courts of terror offences will be executed after passing of death penalty law that does not apply to Jewish extremists Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir in the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 20, 2026. OHAD ZWIGENBERG/AP Israel’s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has posted a gloating video of the construction of a gallows complex where Palestinians convicted of terror offences – but not Jewish extremists...