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In Saudi Arabia–which, paradoxically, was recently elected chair of the UN Human Rights Council–protesting against the government is an act punishable by death.

Ali al-Nimr was only 17…

At least 10 Muslim worshippers performing Eid al-Adha prayers were killed on Thursday when an Islamic State suicide bomber disguised as a woman blew himself up at a mosque, security sources said…

Pope Francis has told the US Congress that the US must see migrants as “persons” and not as “numbers”.

Speaking to a rare joint session, the pope said immigrants should be treated “with the…

Opponents of Britain’s membership of the European Union have joined forces to create a group that will lead the ‘Out’ campaign in an EU referendum due by the end of 2017.

US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in New York this week at a time of high tension in Europe and the Middle East, but the Kremlin and the White House…

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Thursday that the international community did not react to the PKK the way it did to IS. Davutoglu is set to attend a…

The United States has too long ignored the effect of high incarceration rates on minority and poor communities, US President Barack Obama said in a TV documentary featuring an unprecedented…

Alexis Tsipras’ left-wing Syriza party returned to power with an unexpectedly decisive election victory on Sunday, giving the 41-year-old leader a second chance to steer the country out of the…

Two ministers from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democracy Party resigned from the interim government on Tuesday, the private channel NTV said. EU affairs minister, Ali Haydar Konca, and…

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas warned Tuesday of the “risk of an intifada” if clashes over the Al-Aqsa mosque compound continue, after a meeting with French Leader Francois Hollande in Paris…

A plan to share out refugees across the European Union was rejected outright by the Czech Republic on Tuesday and criticized by a United Nations agency for not going far enough.

India on Tuesday cleared a $2.5 billion deal to buy 37 military helicopters from aviation giant Boeing, on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the United States, a government source…

At least 30 people were killed in airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition in northern Yemen on Monday, medical sources and officials said, one year after the Houthis took control of the country’s…

Loyalist troops mass in the capital Ouagadougou as the 10 a.m. deadline expires for coup leaders to lay down their weapons.

Troops loyal to Burkina Faso’s deposed government said they were…

US airstrikes in Syria are ineffective as long as Washington fails to coordinate its actions with those battling terrorists on the ground, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said, adding that…

The pope has met with Cuba’s ex-president for a “familial” discussion at Castro’s residence. Francis also took the chance on his visit to the island to take a dig at communist ideology.

The United States will increase the number of refugees it takes in by 15,000 over each of the next two years, bringing the total to 100,000 in 2017, John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has said…

Greece’s Alexis Tsipras has said his left-wing Syriza party has a “clear mandate” after winning a second general election in less than nine months.

Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of Britain’s Labour Party little over a week ago on a wave of left-wing euphoria, with a landslide victory of almost 60% of the vote.

Three blasts have struck the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the army says. A spokesman blamed the militant group Boko Haram for the attack. Unconfirmed reports say as many as eight…

Public support for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe fell after the passage of controversial national security bills, which could let troops fight overseas for the first time since the end of…

Thousands of Lebanese protesters have returned to Beirut’s streets, demanding that politicians take action to end the country’s rubbish crisis and calling on their leaders to step down.

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Dr. Teck Young is a medical doctor from Singapore who has done humanitarian and social enterprise work in Afghanistan for the past 10 years, including being a mentor to the Afghan Peace Volunteers…

A roadside bomb killed five Afghan policemen on patrol in the eastern province of Paktia, officials said Sunday, the latest in a series of deadly insurgent attacks.

The blast in Zurmat…

A searing image of a refugee child lying dead on a beach finally alerted the world to a crisis now entering its fifth year.

Awareness is never bad, but here it too easily bypasses the…