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People are pictured near their tent at a camp for internally displaced people in Dharawan, near the capital Sanaa, Yemen February 28, 2017. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah


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A woman who fled Bazwaia village speaks with a special forces member at their checkpoint, east of Mosul. Reuters


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Mohammad Javad Larijani, secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and advisor to the chief of the judiciary on international affairs, who is leading Iran’s delegation, speaks during the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group meeting to review Iran’s human rights record, at the (U.N.) European headquarters in Geneva 2014.


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Sri Lankan government soldiers march in a war victory parade in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP/Eranga Jayawardena)


Sri Lanka to probe wartime disappearances

Sri Lanka to probe wartime disappearances

Colombo, Reuters—Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa, under pressure from the United Nations and the West to address alleged rights abuses during a nearly three-decade war, ordered an inquiry on Friday into mass disappearances during the conflict, his office said....