When the treaty creating the International Criminal Court was opened for signatories in 1998, Egyptian-born legal scholar Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni called it “a triumph for all peoples of the world.”…

Moldovans began voting Sunday for a president in an election that could move the former Soviet republic closer to Europe or push it back into Russia’s orbit.   It is…

The radical Pirate Party has made gains but not a breakthrough in Iceland’s election, as voters gave the largest share of support to the incumbent center-right Independence Party. No party…

Hollywood movies, zombie shows, Halloween and even politics are fast changing Mexico’s Day of the Dead celebrations, which traditionally consisted of quiet family gatherings at the graves of their departed…

In Turkey the removal of mayors accused of supporting the PKK Kurdish rebel group, and the PKK’s targeting of their government-appointed replacements are prompting growing fears for democracy in the…

The Great Clown Panic or The Great Clown Scare of 2016, as many media have coined the social hysteria that is sweeping parts of the country about scary clown sightings…

Philippine aerial surveillance showed Chinese coast guard ships were still guarding a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, but they allowed Filipinos to fish “unmolested” for the first time…

Spraying chemicals, monitoring and harvesting crops are all labor and time-intensive tasks for farmers. Now researchers are developing a robot that can tackle some of those jobs by using radio…

South Korea’s president who is in the middle of an influence-peddling scandal accepted the resignation of several of her top aides Sunday. A presidential spokesman said Park Geun-hye accepted the…

Afghanistan’s security forces battling the resurgent Taliban have suffered around 15,000 casualties, including 5,523 fatalities in the first eight months of 2016, says a U.S. government monitoring agency. The agency…

Turkey has dismissed more than 10,000 civil servants as the government continues its crackdown following a failed coup in July. News of the removal of the academics, teachers and health…

Central Italy has been rocked by another strong earthquake; the latest since a deadly quake in August. Italy’s civil protection authority says the powerful 6.6. magnitude quake Sunday morning brought…

New ban would prohibit boat people from living, even visiting Australia. …

Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez had cocaine and alcohol in his system when his boat crashed into a Miami Beach jetty in the southeastern U.S., according to toxicology reports released…

Three astronauts have returned to Earth safely after a 115-day mission aboard the International Space Station where American Kate Rubins became the first person to sequence DNA in space. Rubins,…

U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey’s announcement that his bureau was reviewing new emails possibly relevant to Hillary Clinton’s private email server investigation has thrust him into the…

The New York Metropolitan Opera stopped a performance Saturday afternoon after someone in the audience sprinkled white powder into the orchestra pit during an intermission before the final act of…

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday called the timing of the FBI’s announcement that it was assessing new evidence in her email case “unprecedented” and “deeply troubling.” At a…