NEW YORK, New York - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called on the Myanmar government to pardon and release ...

GENEVA, Switzerland – The independent, international body investigating violence and atrocities against the Rohingya in Myanmar has called for the sacking ...

MOSCOW, Russia - After accusing Israel of indirectly causing the downing of a Russian military plane near Syria, the Russian ...

BEIJING, China - Worries among businesses in the U.S. and China intensified further this week, after both the countries exchanged ...

Vietnamese president and former security chief Tran Dai Quang died Friday after what state media described as a serious illness. ...

Pakistan, led by veteran batsman Shoaib Malik, defeated Afghanistan by three wickets in the Asia Cup cricket Super Four tournament ...

The United States has expressed concern about a Russian court's decision to close rights activist Oyub Titiyev's trial to public, ...

JOHANNESBURG - More than 500 rhinos were poached for their horns in South Africa in the first eight months of ...

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - As Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo prepares to compete in the nation's 2019 national election, he faces ...

Russia's Memorial Human Rights Center says a judge in Chechnya has ordered closed-door court proceedings in the trial of Oyub ...

TAIPEI, TAIWAN - After a super-typhoon killed 6,200 people five years ago, Filipinos figured the experience had taught their country ...

WASHINGTON - Despite the sound bites and photos that emerged from the third summit between the leaders of South Korea ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan announced Thursday that Saudi Arabia has agreed to join and invest "heavily" in its ongoing China-funded bilateral ...

VIENTIANE/PHNOM PENH - An official impact assessment for a controversial new Lao dam on the Mekong river has been directly ...

As Kabulis commemorated Ashura, the holiest celebration on the Shi'ite religious calendar, scores of black-clad civilian recruits strapped with ammunition ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has written to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, seeking to resolve outstanding disputes ...

When Amnesty International launched a probe this year into police crackdowns against Russian protesters, one of its research methods was ...

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - As Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte heads into a third year in office, a spike in consumer prices ...

The world is making progress in its efforts to lift people out of extreme poverty, but the global aspiration of ...

The leaders of North and South Korea reached a broad agreement Wednesday on denuclearization and missiles, winning plaudits from U.S. ...