The Millennium Development goal of giving life-saving treatment to 15 million people by the end of this year was reached nine months ahead of schedule, according to a report by the UN Aids agency. New ...
Afghanistan is reeling from a wave of bomb attacks over the past two days. First a suicide car bomber killed 33 people on Sunday near a military base in the southeast that is used by ...
Police in northeastern China said Tuesday that they fatally shot three minority Uighurs in a confrontation with suspects they described as terrorists who were using knives to resist arrest. Police also injured a fourth suspect ...
A Ukrainian far right group has demanded the resignation of the county’s interior minister while blocking roads around Kyiv in a protest following a fatal gun battle. Dozens of supporters of Right Sector are calling ...
In Germany at least two people have been killed in a drive-by shooting in northern Bavaria. A suspect is said to have opened fire from a Mercedes car close to Ansbach, near Nuremberg. Police say ...
The number of Syrians who have fled abroad since the outbreak of civil war in their country has risen to more than 4 million, the largest number from any crisis in almost 25 years, the ...
Three people, including a 9-year-old girl, were injured when gunfire broke out in Compton on Monday night, sheriff’s deputies said. The shooting was reported about 8:15 p.m. near Alondra Boulevard and Central Avenue, said Sgt. ...
In a speedy response to Liberia’s first confirmed cases of Ebola in more than three months, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has begun distributing emergency supplies in the affected communities including tents for isolating ...
New cases of Ebola have been detected in Liberia, nearly two months after the West African country was declared free of the virus. The authorities are monitoring at least 100 people thought to have been ...