UN experts warn that Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia face increasing exploitation, debt bondage, and detention amid weak oversight and global forced-labor scrutiny.
Italy has unanimously passed a historic law defining femicide as a separate crime, applying automatic life sentences to gender-motivated killings of women.
At least 33 people have died in catastrophic flooding across southern Thailand as record rainfall submerges Hat Yai and forces large-scale military rescue operations.
Ukraine and the U.S. have agreed on a revised peace framework, prompting new diplomatic moves even as Russia warns it may reject changes and fighting continues on the ground.
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered ex-president Jair Bolsonaro to begin serving his 27-year sentence for plotting a post-election coup. He is now confined in a 12-sq-ft cell at a police compound in Brasília.
