The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein is criticizing the U.N. Security Council’s inaction in ending the relentless bombing of eastern Aleppo in northern Syria by the…
continue readingAttorneys for the Ghanaian opposition National Democratic Party (NDP) plan to file a petition in court Thursday seeking to challenge the electoral commission’s decision to disqualify former first lady Nana…
continue readingA booby-trapped drone operated by the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has killed two Kurdish fighters and badly wounded two French soldiers in northern Iraq. …
continue readingSerbia has named Gennady Timchenko, a billionaire ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin hit with U.S. sanctions over the Ukraine conflict, its honorary consul in St. Petersburg. …
continue readingThe teenage daughter of renowned Russian mixed-martial-arts (MMA) fighter Fyodor Yemelyanenko has been hospitalized after reportedly being assaulted by an unidentified man, an incident that comes amid the fighter’s standoff…
continue readingThe United States and Russia have announced two days of talks on the Syrian conflict over the weekend. …
continue readingThe Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has invited Russia to attend a meeting later this month to establish a road map for boosting flagging world oil prices. …
continue readingUkrainian troops engaged in heavy exchanges of gunfire overnight with Russia-backed separatists in the eastern city of Maryinka. Machine-gun and mortar rounds pierced the night sky on October 11, where…
continue readingThe Caspian Sea has long been a potential solution to Central Asia’s water problems and now officials in Kazakhstan’s southwestern Mangistau Province are preparing to harness this resource by building…
continue readingRussian President Vladimir Putin has brushed off assertions that the Kremlin is meddling in the U.S. presidential election and said that criticism of Moscow during the campaign is “poisoning” bilateral…
continue readingCrimean Tatars posted video on Facebook showing Russian police conducting house searches in Simferopol on October 12, in which five men were apparently arrested on terror charges. The incident comes…
continue readingTwo separate attacks targeting members of Afghanistan’s Shi’ite minority during the festival of Ashura have left several dozen people dead and scores wounded. …
continue readingDrone footage released by Syrian activists shows widespread destruction in the rebel-held eastern part of the besieged city of Aleppo. Russia’s deadly attacks on Aleppo, in support of the Syrian…
continue readingSeveral Crimean Tatars have been detained in Ukraine’s occupied Crimea region after Russian-installed security forces searched their houses in several villages. …
continue readingAn explosion targeted a passenger-filled taxi in northeastern Nigeria’s largest city on Wednesday, killing at least seven in the deadliest bombing there in several months, officials and witnesses said. Six…
continue readingIvory Coast’s parliament has approved changes to the constitution that ease a presidential eligibility requirement at the center of a political crisis that turned deadly. The majority of parliament…
continue readingPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte will make a state visit to China next week in the latest instance of reaching out to Beijing despite an ongoing territorial dispute, while questioning his…
continue readingHomeowners, students and businesses in one of eastern North Carolina’s population centers kept a nervous watch Wednesday on the river that flows along downtown, as Hurricane Matthew’s deadly after-effects lingered…
continue readingPakistan appears to be defying domestic and international calls for immediate removal of a controversial travel ban on one of its leading journalists, insisting the move is meant to bring…
continue readingA Rwandan official says an academic extradited from the United States last month has been charged with multiple offenses related to his alleged role in the 1994 genocide. Faustin Nkusi,…
continue readingThe wealthy city-state of Singapore — with its flourishing trade, orderly life and almost non-existent crime — is hardly a place one would associate with illegal trade. But a new…
continue readingProminent dissident Turkmen poet Shirali Nurmuradov has died in Sweden at the age of 71. …
continue readingAn extensive blackout struck Tokyo on Wednesday, affecting government offices and halting trains in the Japanese capital just before the evening rush hour. Tokyo Electric Power Co., a utility serving…
continue readingTwo participants in a mass protest against land reform in Kazakhstan have gone on trial in the western city of Atyrau. …
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