Six people were killed Thursday in a Taliban suicide attack on Afghan police south of Kabul, the first major attack of Islamist rebels since the announcement of the death of their leader, Mullah Omar, last ...
« Unfortunately, we have now reached a milestone whereby over 2,000 migrants and refugees have died as of this past weekend, » Itayi Virri, a spokesman for the IOM, said on Tuesday. Also in a statement, the ...
Media workers, activists and supporters held a rally in Mexico City protesting over the murder of press photographer Ruben Espinosa. Many carried cardboard cut-out photos of the victim. He was one of five people found ...
Tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes in Myanmar, amid deadly monsoon rains. Helicopters are plucking the stranded to safety, but some remain cut off in remote villages. Storms and floods ...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today that the more than 70,000 Liberian children whose births were not recorded during the Ebola outbreak may be unable to access basic health and social services, obtain ...
A Palestinian toddler was burned to death and four family members wounded in an arson attack by suspected Jewish settlers on two homes in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday. The attack added to tensions ...
Muslims returning to ethnically-cleansed areas of western CAR have in some cases been forced to abandon their religion, said Amnesty International in a report published today. The report, “Erased identity: Muslims in ethnically cleansed areas ...
At least 19 people were killed in a suicide bombing in the northern Cameroonian town of Maroua on Saturday, a local military commander said, just three days after twin bombings there suspected to have been ...