UN human rights body backs measures against Myanmar and investigations in Iran
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s leading human rights body agreed Thursday to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar and Iran, whose governments have...
Gay rights activists call for more international pressure on Uganda over anti-gay law
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan gay rights activists asked the international community to mount more pressure on the government of Uganda to repeal an...
Senior UK jurists have joined calls to stop arms sales to Israel. Other allies...
LONDON (AP) — More than 600 British jurists, including three retired judges from the U.K. Supreme Court, are calling on the government to suspend...
South Korea’s president meets leader of doctors’ strike as he seeks to end their...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met the leader of a strike by thousands of junior doctors on Thursday...
Myanmar resistance group says its drones hit targets in the capital, but army says...
BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s main pro-democracy resistance group said Thursday its armed wing launched drone attacks on the airport and a military headquarters in...
People jump into the sea to escape raging ferry fire in Gulf of Thailand....
BANGKOK (AP) — Panicked passengers jumped into the sea to escape a raging ferry fire in the Gulf of Thailand early Thursday, and all...
NATO marks its 75th birthday as war in Ukraine and rising populism gnaw at...
BRUSSELS (AP) — NATO will celebrate on Thursday 75 years of collective defense across Europe and North America as Russia’s war on Ukraine enters...
In the aftermath of the Moscow concert hall attack, is a harsher era under...
Video and photos of suspects in a mass shooting show them apparently being brutalized by Russian security forces — without any rebuke from authorities....
Russia and West join forces to tackle trade in ‘blood diamonds’ despite feud over...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and its Western allies are feuding with Russia over its diamond production, but they joined forces Wednesday...
Jewish group launches Holocaust survivor speakers bureau to fight increasing antisemitism worldwide
BERLIN (AP) — More than 250 Holocaust survivors have joined an international initiative to share their stories of loss and survival with students around...