WASHINGTON( AP)--The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says it has compiled evidence of increasing

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People carry banners of protest as they gather to denounce the regime of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Warsaw, Poland, on Aug.... Many carried the Belarusian opposition's red-and-white flag, which is banned in Belarus, and chanted" Long live Belarus!... 9, 2020 presidential election in Belarus in which President Alexander Lukashenko was awarded a sixth term in a vote that the opposition and many in the West view as fraudulent....

The secretary of state noted the importance of calling attention to inhumanity even as horrific attacks occur elsewhere in the world, including Ukraine.“ Yes, we stand with the people of Ukraine," he said.... " And we must also stand with people who are suffering atrocities in other places.” The government of Myanmar, also known as Burma, is already under multiple layers of U.S. sanctions since a military coup ousted the democratically elected government in February 2021.... The delay in the d

last year allowed the world to glimpse the seething anger just below the surface of a repressive

MOSCOW( Reuters)-Russia's Supreme Court ordered the country's best-known human rights group on Tuesday to be liquidated for breaking a law requiring groups to register as foreign agents, capping a year of crackdowns on Kremlin critics unseen since the Soviet days. The shuttering of the group Memorial closes a year in which the top Kremlin critic was jailed, his political movement banned and many of his allies forced to flee.... Navalny's political network was banned as extremist and many of his

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