Africa
Thousands of Nicaraguans have staged a protest rally in a central city to voice their anger at a government decision to give the go-ahead to the controversial construction of a canal through their lands. On ...
Six Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 14 wounded in separatist eastern territory in the past 24 hours, despite a four-month-old ceasefire deal, the Ukrainian military said on Saturday. The truce brokered by the leaders ...
Controversy has erupted over the racial identity of an NAACP leader in Washington state, after her parents told media outlets that their daughter is white and has been pretending to be black for years. Rachel ...
A bomb explosion has rocked an area near the parliament building in the Afghan capital, Kabul, leaving at least three soldiers wounded. The blast occurred when a magnetic bomb attached to a military vehicle exploded ...
The U.N. refugee agency is estimating that over 3,000 Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants — or even more — could still be adrift in the Andaman Sea. The exact numbers are not known, but the U.N. ...
Members of a UN peacekeeping mission engaged in “transactional sex” with more than 225 Haitian women, according to a new report, which suggests that sexual exploitation remains significantly under-reported in such missions. The draft by ...
More than three million children living in France, or one in five, live below the poverty line, according to a new report by UNICEF published on Tuesday. The UN agency devoted to children’s rights revealed ...
Ships from Italy, Germany, Britain and other EU countries have rescued nearly 6,000 migrants from the Mediterranean over the weekend. The influx has spurred backlash in Italy, where the migrants will initially be hosted. The ...
The Palestinian Authority’s Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs (CPA) said, in a statement Sunday, that 93 Palestinian minors are currently incarcerated in the Israeli Ofer prison near Ramallah. According to WAFA correspondence, it said while eight ...
A British Muslim woman allegedly had her hijab ripped off in a racially motivated attack in London. Police say they have arrested two people in connection with the crime. The investigation is ongoing for the ...
