International
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. ...
After examining the case, a United Nations Committee has found that Canada’s deportation of a Jamaican man with a mental disability who had spent much of his life in Canada amounted to cruel and inhuman ...
A United Nations (UN) envoy has warned about the Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying the Israeli move is one of the main causes of instability in the Middle East. UN Special ...
Pakistan’s military says its jets have carried out airstrikes against five militant hideouts in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, killing 13 militants. In a statement, the military said the strikes were carried out Wednesday near ...
Hundreds of Israeli Ethiopian Jews and activists held a rally on Monday evening in Tel Aviv to protest against alleged racism, an AFP journalist said. The march passed off without incident under the watch of ...
Twin explosions on Monday hit the regional headquarters of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party in two cities, adding to escalating tensions in the run up to June 7 legislative elections. Six people were injured in the ...
Some 35,000 protesters raise placards saying « Do not yield to authority » during a rally to protest against a controversial US airbase in Naha in Japan’s southern island of Okinawa on May 17, 2015. The protests ...
Saudi protesters have once again taken to the streets, calling on authorities to overturn the death sentence handed to prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr. The Saudis staged a rally in the Qatif region of ...
At least 47 people have been killed and tens of others wounded after unidentified armed men launched an attack on a bus carrying Shia Muslim pilgrims in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh. At least 47 ...
A humanitarian aid ship, which set sail from a port in Sweden, is now en route to the Gaza Strip to break Israel’s years-long blockade on the impoverished Palestinian territory. The Marianne of Gothenburg, which ...
