Narendra Modi received Russia’s highest civilian award for “exceptional service” in promoting bilateral ties on Tuesday, as both states look to strengthen military cooperation and deepen economic ties. 

Mr Modi's two-day visit - his first to the Kremlin since 2019 - coincides with a Nato summit in Washington, where the 2022 invasion will be a major theme.

Turkey has begun mediating talks between Somalia and Ethiopia over a port deal Addis Ababa signed with the breakaway region of Somaliland earlier this year. 

The relationship between Somalia and Ethiopia became strained in January when Ethiopia agreed to lease 20 km of coastline from Somaliland, in exchange for recognition of its independence.

Turkish Foreign Minister, Hakan Fidan hosted Ethiopian Foreign Minister Taye Atske Selassie, and Somali Foreign Minister Ahmed Moalim Fiqi on Monday. 

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.

“What was this group’s goal? The goal was to overturn the democratically elected authority,” Mr del Castillo told journalists in announcing the arrests.

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. 

The Mulsim Rohingya minority has long suffered persecution at the hands of successive military dictatorships in Myanmar. 

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.

In the case brought against Russia, Ukraine alleges that since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Russia has committed human rights violations including inhuman or degrading treatment, the prohibition of freedom of religion, and freedom of expression among other rights. 

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

Fighting continues between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their respective affiliated militias. In response to this the European Council has adopted "restrictive measures" against six individuals responsible for activities "undermining the stability and political transition of 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.

Bill 6951/2023-CR aims to prevent the prosecution, sentencing, or punishment for crimes against humanity or war crimes committed before 1 July 2002.

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. 

“The constitutional bill regarding New Caledonia… I have decided to suspend,” Macron said on Wednesday.