Four Ukrainian soldiers and two civilians have been killed in an upsurge in mortar and rocket attacks launched just days ahead of planned international talks on the crisis. Local authorities in the rebel stronghold of ...
One of Cuba’s most prominent dissident groups said on Friday that 36 opposition activists, including a popular hip-hop artist, have been freed in the last two days. The dissident Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU) said ...
At least twelve people have been killed and eleven others critically injured when several masked men armed with automatic weapons stormed the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in the heart of the French ...
At least 10 decapitated bodies and 11 heads have been discovered in unmarked graves in violence-plagued Guerrero state in southern Mexico, authorities said. The hands and feet on the corpses had been tied and the ...
Protests against police brutality are planned in San Francisco, Oakland and across the country tonight amid New Year’s Eve celebrations. Organizers of the protest in San Francisco said that a non-violent rally is scheduled to ...
File photo shows African migrants aboard the Red Cross boat “LS Hermes” in the port of Tarifa, southern Spain after being rescued on August 12, 2014 Almost 150 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in ...
Bangladesh police banned all protests in the capital from Sunday and locked main opposition leader Khaleda Zia in her office in Dhaka as clashes broke out before the first anniversary of an election her party ...
An Egyptian court’s call for a retrial of three jailed Al Jazeera journalists acknowledges major flaws in the original convictions but leaves the men in unjust incarceration, Amnesty International said today. “By calling for a ...
A senior United Nations refugee official today stressed the need for urgent action by European nations to protect migrants at sea following recent incidents involving hundreds of people stranded in the Mediterranean while attempting to ...