Category : International News

Ivan Šimonović, Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré  Ahead of the launch of a new book by the United Nations on the global...

On the eve of an international conference aimed at ending Syria’s four-year-old civil war, Iran signalled it might be willing to back away from its...

Sudan’s foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour has told a visiting donor delegation that the government is ready to allow international aid groups to access South Kordofan...

The International Criminal Court has given South Africa more time to explain why it failed to arrest Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, accused by the...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday vehemently defended the Obama administration’s decision to oust Muammar Qaddafi’s government in Libya and send diplomats there,...

Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned jailed Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed, along with 100 prisoners, the presidency and official media...

Protesters burn tires on the streets of Ouagadogou, Burkina Faso, following the government takeover by members of the presidential guard. Photo: Brahima Ouedraogo/IRIN  United Nations...

The U.S. Embassy in South Africa is warning of potential terror threats to American interests in the region. In a message posted on the embassy’s...

While the Iran deal sparked hope that North Korea might be next at the negotiating table, it doesn’t seem likely that will happen anytime soon…...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday welcomed the signature by President Salva Kiir of the agreement on the resolution of the conflict in the Republic...

Mary Ann Georgantopoulos Younis Al-bayati / AFP / Getty Images Spanish and Moroccan authorities arrested 14 suspected recruiters for ISIS, the Spanish Interior Ministry announced...

French President Francois Hollande says his country should be prepared for more attacks such as the thwarted assault on a high-speed train last week. Hollande...

Families of four Gaza Palestinians who were abducted in restive Sinai have called on Egypt to save their kin. Abdul Kareem, whose nephew Yasser Zanoun...

Specialized local operators carrying coffin of one victim of marine accident off the coast of Libya. Photo: UNHCR/Fabio Bucciarelli  Following a spate of deadly shipwrecks...