A senior Bolivian general was arrested after armoured vehicles rammed the doors of the government palace in La Paz on Wednesay in what President Luis Arce called an attempted coup.

Forces led by army chief General Juan Jose Zuniga appeared to take control of Mr Arce’s government as they vowed to “restore democracy” but the president vowed to hold firm and swiftly named a new military commander, who immediately ordered the troops to stand down.

The UK-based rights group, Burmese Rohingya Organization UK (BROUK) has warned in a new report that the 600,000 Muslim Rohingya remaining in Rakhine State have been subject to an “intensifying genocide” since the armed conflict between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army (AA) resumed last October. 

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrived in Australia today after he was freed by a United States court in Saipan under a plea deal. 

Assange’s plane landed in Canberra on Wednesday, hours after the 52-year-old pleaded guilty in a court in Saipan to a charge of espionage, related to obtaining and publishing US military secrets.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has found Russia guilty of committing multiple human rights violations in Ukraine’s occupied Crimea peninsula.

The European Council adopted sanctions against six individuals responsible for atrocities in the ongoing conflict in Sudan. 

On 17 June, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights held a public hearing in which the Ecumenical Foundation for Development and Peace (Fedepaz) joined representatives of victims from the Barrios Alos and La Cantuta cases in requesting the court to halt the proceedings of a pro-impunity bill.

A street of Mariupol during siege of the city in the course of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

A recent analysis submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) accuses Russia of engaging in a "deliberate pattern" of starvation tactics during the 85-day siege of Mariupol in early 2022. 

French President Emmanuel Macron has suspended controversial voting reforms in New Caledonia after an outbreak of deadly unrest in the French island territory. 

The unrest which flared up in New Caledonia on 13 May led to the deaths of 9 people. 

In a statement released last week, UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed deep concern over the escalating violence in Myanmar.

Narendra Modi has been sworn in as India's prime minister for a third term in a ceremony held at the presidential palace in Delhi.

A protest against "Tigray Genocide" on March 26, 2021, in New York, NY.

The Arakan army is accused of persecuting Rhogingya in parts of the Rakhine state as the armed group has won control of large swathes of land in the region from the military junta. 

On 24 May the Paris Criminal Court convicted three high-ranking Syrian senior officials for their role in the imprisonment, enforced disappearance, and torture of two dual Syrian-French Citizens, Patrick Dabbagh and his Father Mazzen. 

The leaders of Norway, Ireland, and Spain have announced that they will formally recognize a Palestinian state on 28 May.

On Wednesday, Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said a two-state solution was in Israel’s best interest. He adds “There cannot be peace in the Middle East if there is no recognition.”