Angela Merkel is facing a rebellion over Germany’s coronavirus lockdown as regional governments move to ease restrictions. Garden centr...

Nations' formal emissions-cutting pledges are collectively way too weak to put the world on track to meet the Paris climate deal's temp...

President Biden reaffirmed U.S. support for the people of Ukraine and vowed to hold Russia accountable for its aggression in a statemen...

The nation is poised to get a third vaccine against COVID-19, but because at first glance the Johnson & Johnson shot may not be seen as...

The United Nations' human rights chief on Friday cited the need for an “independent and comprehensive assessment” of the rights situati...

Putin foe's relocation to an undisclosed prison comes as Amnesty International faces a backlash over a dubiously timed decision to deli...

The newest pledges by countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions are falling far short of what's needed to limit global warming to what...

The president approved the bombings even as he pursues a diplomatic initiative with Iran to revive a 2015 nuclear agreement.

United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, in rare public comments on Saudi Arabia, said on Friday that people were unlawfull...

Heavy fighting between rebels and government forces in Yemen's oil-rich Marib has killed at least 27 people, tribal leaders and securit...

United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet, in rare public comments on Saudi Arabia, said on Friday that people were "unjustly...

Already one of the most isolated countries in the world before the Covid-19 pandemic, North Korea has shut its doors even tighter in an...

The Biden administration notified Israel in advance about the airstrike against an Iranian-backed Shiite militia base on the Syrian-Ira...

The top European Union diplomat supervising the international agreement aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions called Friday for a c...

The president approved the bombings even as he pursues a diplomatic initiative with Iran to revive a 2015 nuclear agreement.

Eight employees of the Russian embassy in Pyongyang have spent more than 34 hours trying to get home across the country’s closed border...

A teacher in the north-western Zamfara state tells the BBC at least 300 girls are unaccounted for.

Hong Kong has begun administering its first COVID-19 vaccines to the public, kicking off its mass inoculation targeting all 7.5 million...

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said that Germany is ready to "continue supporting Afghanistan during its peace process," the defense minist...

SHANGAHI, China, Feb. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pinduoduo Inc. (“Pinduoduo”, or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: PDD), China’s largest agricu...

United Nations human rights investigators will issue their findings on the case of Kremlin critic Andrei Navalny on Monday, a U.N. stat...

Bloomberg's Tim O'Brien, one of the few journalists who has seen former President Donald Trump's tax returns, told MSNBC's Lawrence O'D...

A faction of local, county and state Republican officials is pushing lies, misinformation and conspiracy theories that echo those that...

Eritrean troops killed hundreds in Aksum in Ethiopia's Tigray region, witnesses tell Amnesty and the BBC.

US President Joe Biden on Thursday directed US military airstrikes in eastern Syria against facilities belonging to what the Pentagon s...

In President Biden's first military action, the U.S. picked targets to deliver a carefully calibrated message to Iran about putting Ame...

The U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions Thursday on a top police security official in Yemen's capital, which is controlled by Houth...