A secondary school in northeastern France has sent a 15-year-old student home twice in the last two weeks for wearing a long skirt that the principal judged was “an ostentatious sign” of the girl’s Muslim ...
Pakistani military fighter jets have pounded militant positions in Pakistan’s rugged northwestern tribal region close to the border with Afghanistan, killing at least 44 militants. According to a statement released by the Pakistani Army, the ...
A U.N. inquiry has found that at least 44 Palestinians were killed and at least 227 injured by direct mortar strikes and other « Israeli actions » while sheltering at U.N. locations during last year’s Gaza war. ...
Baltimore erupted in violence on Monday as hundreds of rioters looted stores, burned buildings and at least 15 police officers were injured following the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died after suffering a ...
Israeli forces have abducted at least five Palestinians during an overnight raid on a number of houses in the occupied West Bank. The arrests were made in the northern city of Jenin on Sunday, according ...
Explosive video obtained by The New Yorker depicts extreme violence inside New York City’s Rikers Island jail complex. Surveillance camera footage shows former teenage prisoner, Kalief Browder, being abused on two separate occasions. In one ...
Gunmen on a motorcycle killed a prominent women’s rights activist in Pakistan just hours after she held a forum on the country’s restive Baluchistan region, home to a long-running insurgency, police said Saturday. While investigators ...
A large number of Americans have again taken to the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, to protest the death of a 25-year-old unarmed African American man at the hands of white police officers. On Thursday night, ...
A car bomb killed at least nine people and wounded many others at a restaurant in Somalia’s capital on Tuesday, police said. In addition to the deaths, at least eight people were wounded in the ...
At least seven people have been killed in separate clashes between militants and paramilitary soldiers in the restive Balochistan Province in southwest Pakistan. In the first incident, Paramilitary Frontier Corps spokesman, Manzoor Ahmed, said a series of violent clashes took place ...