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 ...
A new video shows police officers in the United States have brutally shot dead a mentally ill African-American man in front of his mother. Jason Harrison, 39, was killed by police in Dallas in June ...
Nearly all of the 436 mosques in the Central African Republic (CAR) have been destroyed by months of deadly sectarian violence, the US envoy to the United Nations says. Samantha Power said Tuesday that 417 ...
Indian police have confronted protesters rallying near the parliament against a government-proposed legal amendment enabling acquisition of land for development projects. The law enforcement agents on Monday used batons and water cannon against the demonstrators, ...
When disaster strikes, the surest way to save more lives is to get targeted, practical information quickly out to communities, United Nations experts told delegations gathered in Sendai, Japan, but stressed that even the most ...
You are cordially invited to participate in a side-event Of the Human Rights Council on the “State Sponsors of Terrorism” 16th March 2015 from 9 am to 11 am Room XXIV Speakers : Vasily Kuznetsov ...