GENEVA: The testimony of Rohingya Muslims who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh has been described as "absolutely horrendous" and "shocking" by a top...
GENEVA: The testimony of Rohingya Muslims who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh has been described as "absolutely horrendous" and "shocking" by a top...
Mogadishu: Somali lawmakers were choosing a president under tight security Wednesday, with roads closed and residents urged to remain indoors over fears of...
BUCHAREST: Romania’s Social Democrat-led government easily survived a no-confidence motion in parliament on Wednesday, three days after mass street protests forced it into...
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims may have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior United Nations...
BOGOTA: Colombia’s attorney general on Wednesday called for a probe into whether President Juan Manuel Santos’s 2014 campaign received as much as $1...
JERUSALEM: Rights groups petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday to annul a heavily criticised law that retroactively legalised some 4,000 settler homes built...
London: The British government "does not believe there should be a second referendum" on Scottish independence, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokeswoman said Wednesday,...
HARARE: Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court dismissed a case against President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday lodged by an activist who accused the ageing leader of...
GAZA: Egypt has eased restrictions at a tightly-controlled border with the Gaza trip in a sign of improved relations with the Palestinian territory’s...
Baghdad: Hundreds of supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad Wednesday to demand electoral reform ahead of a planned provincial vote...
KABUL: Islamic State claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a suicide attack that killed at least 22 people outside Afghanistan's Supreme Court. The bomber,...
CAPE TOWN: South African bullion producer Gold Fields is gearing up for an operation to capture and relocate a population of critically endangered...
ANKARA: Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and 58 Islamic State members killed during the ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield in northern Syria, according...
BEIJING: U.S. President Donald Trump's order temporarily banning visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries shows that his administration does not understand its counterterrorism duties,...
Bucharest: Romania's embattled premier Sorin Grindeanu sought Wednesday to quell nationwide unrest over his government's attempt to weaken corruption laws with a speech...
Abidjan: Ivory Coast special forces troops fired in the air in the army barracks town of Adiake on Wednesday after weeks of trouble...
NAIROBI: Kenyan investigators arrested the former chief executive of the electoral commission and two others in dawn raids on Wednesday, the latest twist...
Donetsk: A military chief of a self-proclaimed Russian-backed republic in eastern Ukraine was killed in an "act of terror" Wednesday, the latest victim...
