The IOM and UNHCR say two boats carrying mostly Rohingya passengers departed Rakhine State in late June. This year, more than 300 people were previously reported killed or missing in the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal, including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals, the report said [File: Mohammad Ponir Hossain/Reuters] Two boats carrying more than 500 people are feared to have capsized off the coast of Myanmar in recent days, United Nations agencies have said. According to preliminary...

The new sentencing measure comes as President Nayib Bukele oversees a four-year-long state of emergency against crime. El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has led a hardline crackdown on crime since 2022 [File: Jose Cabezas/Reuters] El Salvador has published a new law that will allow authorities to penalise minors as young as 12 with life imprisonment for severe crimes, including homicide, terrorism or rape. On Tuesday, the Salvadoran government released the law, which is slated to take...

Leo, ​who last year became the first US-born pope, has emerged as an outspoken critic of the US-Israeli ⁠war on Iran. Pope Leo XIV delivers his message as he leads a vigil for peace inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on April 11, 2026 [Gregorio Borgia/AP Photo] Pushing back against United States President Donald Trump’s broadside, Pope Leo XIV says the Vatican’s appeals for peace and reconciliation are rooted in the Gospel, and that he did not fear the Trump administration. “I don’t...