Indian capital’s summer of discontent: anger, killings over waterThrough the long summer months in India’s capital, tens of thousands of people have cut back on daily showers and laundry because of a shortage of water that has led to fighting in some areas in which...
Police, tribals clash over arrest of India gang rape accusedIndian authorities vowed Thursday to rescue three policeman kidnapped by an indigenous group blamed for raping charity workers and stoking unrest that left a man dead. Police said they were regrouping...
Qatar ‘must stop support for terror’, top UN court toldAbu Dhabi on Thursday called on Doha to stop “supporting terrorist groups and individuals” and strongly denied human rights abuses against Qatari citizens before the UN’s top court. The bitter Gulf cr...
Saving Chancellor Merkel: German leader seeks EU lifelineAngela Merkel hopes this week's European summit can save her from a migrant crisis that could cost her job. And while there is little love lost for the German chancellor in many capitals, they appear...
Refugees begin return to Syria from Lebanon border townHundreds of Syrian refugees began returning home from the Lebanese border town of Arsal on Thursday as part of a coordinated operation between authorities in Beirut and Damascus. As fighting fronts in...
Pentagon chief seeks to reassure S Korea, Japan on NorthUS Defense Secretary James Mattis told South Korea Thursday that their alliance remained "ironclad", as he sought to reassure key East Asian allies following Donald Trump's unilateral suspension of mi...
The writer inspiring Romania’s protest movement at 101Amid the almost daily crowds of anti-government protesters in the Romanian capital Bucharest, there's one name on the lips of many of those gathered outside government headquarters: the 101-year-old m...
Timor bugging whistleblower faces Australia criminal chargesCriminal charges have been filed against a spy-turned-whistleblower who exposed a secret Australian bugging operation in East Timor, parliament heard Thursday, in what one MP called an "insane develop...
Deported after Trump order, Central Americans grieve for lost childrenBefore deporting him in shackles last week, US immigration agents handed Honduran asylum-seeker Melvin Garcia his few possessions and a small blue wallet belonging to Daylin, the 12-year-old daughter...
S Korea court offers conscientious objectors route away from armySouth Korea's Constitutional Court on Thursday upheld the jailing of those who evade the country's military conscription law, but ordered authorities to provide conscientious objectors with an alterna...
France charges 10 ultra-right suspects over plot to attack MuslimsFrench authorities have charged 10 suspected far-right extremists in connection with an alleged plot to attack Muslims, a judicial source said Thursday. The nine men and one woman aged 32 to 69 were a...
Russian Gulag historian detained again after acquittal on child porn chargesA Russian Gulag historian, Yury Dmitriyev, acquitted of child pornography charges, has been detained again, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday, in what is seen as a huge blow for the embattled rights com...
Mexican leftist closes in on presidency with anti-graft messageFed up with rampant corruption and violence, Mexicans vote Sunday in historic elections that look set to punish the political establishment and deliver the presidency to leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Ob...
Rights group says Cambodian security forces involved in abuses for PMSenior members of Cambodia’s security forces have committed human rights abuses that benefited Prime Minister Hun Sen, including a crackdown on the opposition ahead of elections next month, Human Righ...
Fifteen dead in Nairobi market fire, 70 injuredFifteen people died and 70 were injured when fire swept through a market and nearby homes in central Nairobi in the early hours of Thursday. The blaze broke out in a timber yard, said Nairobi regional...
Rights group says Cambodian security forces involved in abuses for PMSenior members of Cambodia’s security forces have committed human rights abuses that benefited Prime Minister Hun Sen, including a crackdown on the opposition ahead of elections next month, Human Righ...