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Bangladesh police on Thursday released from custody six student leaders whose protest campaign against civil service job quotas sparked deadly nationwide unrest last month, a senior officer told AFP.

Ignored by Russia and Israel, the International Court of Justice is hamstrung by a dysfunctional global system that sees countries comply with its rulings — or not — based on their own double standards, experts say.

In 2022, the U.N.'s highest court ordered Russia to halt its invasion of Ukraine, still underway two years later.

Fourteen bodies were found in an affluent suburb of Haiti's capital Monday, as international efforts accelerated to fill a political vacuum created by weeks of gang violence that has forced the impending departure of the prime minister.

Let us remind you that Bojo, as many British and Western media call him, is facing an unprecedented cabinet crisis because over 50 members of his cabinet resigned in the last 24 hours.
He has so far refused to do so, and he dismissed the minister who publicly called on him to resign.

Internet giants Google and Facebook have announced that they will require all their employees who work in their offices to be vaccinated, AFP reported, quoted by BTA.

The global COVID-19 death toll passed three million on April 17 as the pandemic speeds up despite vaccination campaigns, leading countries like India to impose new lockdowns to fight spiralling infection numbers.

The health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic greatly influenced the activity of European news agencies in terms of working procedures, and some expect a drop in revenues, according to the directors of some of these media outlets in interviews published on Monday on the European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) website.

Death can be a morbid and solemn subject in many cultures, but in Mexico, it's a cause for celebration -- at least for two nights a year. (Source: Agence France-Presse)

This moment, recorded by an AFP photo reporter, has shaken social media users, enraging them as children suffer because of the war waging.
AFP states that the school was damaged in an air strike during fighting between Saudi-backed government forces and Huthi rebels.
The photo was taken on September 3, the first day of school in Yemen, according to the agency.

Agence France-Presse photojournalist Ahmad Gharabli's striking photo of a Palestinian woman and Israeli security officer taking photos of each other has been chosen Photo of the Year 2019 in the Istanbul Photo Awards, organized by the state-run Anadolu Agency.