Hundreds of Kashmiris in both India and Pakistan moved to higher ground Monday as rain-swollen rivers swamped parts of the disputed Himalayan region placed under an emergency flood alert just six months after some 600 ...
Clashes between police and gangs in Brazil’s eastern regions have killed at least 11 people and injured two officers, reports say. The violence took place in the state of Rio Grande do Norte and in ...
Ahead of next week’s third International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria, the United Nations health agency’s top official in the country said today that more than 16 million Syrians and Syrian refugees are in need ...
At least seven people have lost their lives in a car bomb attack in the Afghan capital city of Kabul. “The initial reports from Kabul hospitals show seven killed and 22 wounded including women and ...
Syrian armed opposition groups, among them jihadists but also Western-backed rebels, have indiscriminately targeted civilians in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. In a new report, the New York-based ...
Gunmen killed 13 passengers travelling on a bus in Afghanistan on Tuesday, underlining the country’s fragile security situation as President Ashraf Ghani holds talks with the United States in Washington. The attack in Wardak province, ...
A growing risk of outbreaks of measles, pertussis, and other vaccine-preventable diseases in countries affected by Ebola must be countered by urgent scaling up of routine immunization activities, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). ...
Upwards of 1,000 people linked to the school exam cheating incident last week were rounded up and jailed in India’s eastern state of Bihar, the director general of police, Gupteshwar Pandey, said on Sunday. Parents ...
A mob in the Afghan capital killed a woman, set her body on fire and threw it into a muddy river in the heart of Kabul on Thursday, a police official said. The motive for ...