Representative image By Tom Esslemont and Kenny Katombe LONDON/LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo: A crackdown on international adoptions by the Democratic Republic of...
Representative image By Tom Esslemont and Kenny Katombe LONDON/LUBUMBASHI, Democratic Republic of Congo: A crackdown on international adoptions by the Democratic Republic of...
By Ian Simpson FORT MEADE, Md.: A Guantanamo Bay judge on Wednesday weighed replacing a lawyer for a Yemeni suspect in the Sept....
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, addresses the UN Human Rights Council during a meeting at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva,...
An Israeli border guards holds a camouflaged weapon during clashes with Palestinian youths in the West Bank town of Al-Bireh on October 27,...
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it would start vaccine treatments for cholera beginning this weekend to prevent further outbreaks in...
Addis Ababa: Both government and rebels in South Sudan carried out war crimes against civilians and should face justice, an African Union human...
Police detain a protester as they confront protesters near the headquarters of a media company with alleged linked to a government critic, where...
Moroccan citizen Touil Abdelmajid makes a victory sign as he arrives with migrants on the Italian navy ship Orione at Porto Empedocle harbour...
A group of migrants walk along a road after crossing the border between Austria and Germany in Wegscheid near Passau, Germany, Wednesday, Oct....
Berlin: Germany's Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Wednesday the rising number of Afghan asylum seekers was "unacceptable", as he urged young citizens...
Tehran: Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will this week join international talks aimed at ending the four-year conflict in Syria, a top...
A woman shows her inked finger after casting her ballot. REUTERS Dar es Salaam: Tanzania's elections were thrown into doubt Wednesday after the...
Damascus: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad renewed his accusation that Western states including France are supporting "terrorist" groups in his country's conflict, at a...
Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court has called on the state to ensure that hundreds of people facing imprisonment and even execution under controversial blasphemy...
Kathmandu: Nepal's parliament elected lawmaker Bidhya Bhandari as the country's first female president Wednesday, after the adoption of a landmark constitution last month....
Lagos: Nigerian troops have rescued 338 people, mainly women and children, held by Boko Haram Islamists around the group's Sambisa forest stronghold in...
Beijing: A sailor on the first Chinese yacht to enter the gruelling Sydney to Hobart yacht race has been swept overboard as the...
Pune: FTII students who went on strike on June 12 against the appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as its chairman returned to their classes...