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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham pledged that Congress would "sanction the hell out of Saudi Arabia."

Boko Haram jihadists have killed another kidnapped female Red Cross worker in northeast Nigeria, a month after militants murdered one of her colleagues.

The Congolese authorities say they are struggling to cope with the returnees, with up to 1,000 arrivals every hour.

As the war-torn country battles the worst drought in living memory, at least three million Afghans are in "urgent" need of food and could face famine.

Saudi Arabia warned Sunday it would retaliate against any sanctions imposed on the oil-rich kingdom over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as the Riyadh stock market plunged…

President Donald Trump said the US would inflict severe punishment, if missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by the Saudis.

Uighurs are a mostly Muslim Turkic ethnic group from China's far west Xinjiang region, where authorities have enforced draconian security measures in the name of combatting extremism and…

More than 50 Vietnamese activists, rights campaigners and bloggers have been put behind bars in 2018, in one of the harshest crackdowns in years. 

International aid groups working in Idlib warned that failure to implement the deal could spark renewed violence and trigger mass displacement. 

The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate said it had agreed to recognize the independence of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Lara Alqasem, banned from entering Israel for allegedly having supported a pro-Palestinian boycott of the country, appeared in court on Thursday to challenge the decision.

Beijing has in recent years launched a security crackdown in Xinjiang against what it calls separatist elements, and a U.N. report has cited estimates that up to one million ethnic Uighurs…

Rights groups criticized the detention of the reporters from Eleven Media, the latest in a long series of cases brought against the media under vague and outdated laws.

At least 15 Saudi journalists and bloggers have been arrested over the past year, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Wednesday.

Nikki Haley resigned Tuesday as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in the latest departure from President Donald Trump's national security team.

Bulgaria found itself under pressure to find the killer of a television journalist whose brutal murder at the weekend has shocked the country and sparked international condemnation.

Scientists predict that the next influenza pandemic -- most likely to be a strain of bird flu that infects humans and spreads rapidly across the world via air travel -- could kill up to 150…

The U.S. Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick Brett Kavanaugh in the closest such vote in more than a century.

UNRWA said such a move would affect its humanitarian operations and installations in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.

Winning the Nobel peace prize is a significant victory for all women suffering from sexual violence, Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad said in her first remarks after jointly winning the award.