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Turkey's defiant PM says police to get more power
Turkey's prime minister on Tuesday brushed aside international criticism over his government's crackdown on widespread demonstrations and vowed to ...
Libyan army colonel killed in attack on brigade
A Libyan army colonel was killed in an ambush on his brigade in the country's south on Friday, the unit's spokesman said, in the latest incident of ...
New push at OAS for US to alter anti-drug approach
Latin American countries frustrated by the United States' refusal to change its drug war strategy are pushing the U.S. government to look at ...
Egypt convicts NGO workers, including 16 Americans
An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced 43 non-profit workers, including the son of the U.S. secretary of transportation and 15 other Americans, to ...
Syrian army advances in Qusair and Damascus suburb
Syrian troops advanced toward the center of the strategic town of Qusair near the border with Lebanon and chased rebels from another key district on ...
Rights group calls Egypt draft NGO law restrictive
New York-based Human Rights Watch and 40 Egyptian rights groups on Thursday said Egypt's draft law regulating non-governmental organizations would ...
Surge in hate crimes divides Greek coalition
Greece's coalition government was in disarray Thursday over efforts to crackdown on growing racist violence, as majority conservatives and their ...
Kenya police accused of abusing Somali refugees
Kenyan police abused and extorted money from Somali refugees after attacks in the capital believed to have been carried out by the Somali militant ...
Suu Kyi opposes 2-child limit for Myanmar minority
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Islamic leaders expressed dismay over decisions by authorities in western Myanmar to restore a two-child limit ...
African leaders urge ICC to transfer charges
African leaders on Monday asked the International Criminal Court to transfer charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to the Kenyan legal ...
2-child limit for Muslims in parts of Myanmar
Authorities in Myanmar's western Rakhine state have imposed a two-child limit for Muslim Rohingya families, a policy that does not apply to Buddhists ...
Afghan students protest women's rights decree
Hard-line Islamist students protested in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is ...
Group: More Afghan women jailed for 'moral crimes'
The number of Afghan women and girls jailed for "moral crimes" has risen dramatically in the past 18 months, raising concerns that gains in women's ...
Ivory Coast army arrests militia leader
A militia leader accused of grave crimes during Ivory Coast's 2010-11 postelection violence was taken into custody Saturday not far from the national ...
Report: Torture evidence found in Syrian prisons
Rights activists visiting abandoned government prisons in the first Syrian city to come under rebel control have found torture devices and other ...
Rights groups: Syria holds thousands incommunicado
About 30 security agents showed up just after midnight, breaking down the door to an apartment in the town of Daraya near the Syrian capital of ...
US launches drone from aircraft carrier
A drone the size of a fighter jet took off from the deck of an American aircraft carrier for the first time Tuesday in a test flight that could ...
Navy launches unmanned aircraft from carrier
The Navy for the first time Tuesday launched an unmanned aircraft the size of a fighter jet from a warship in the Atlantic Ocean, as it wades deeper ...
HRW: Sex workers in China subject to police abuse
Police in China frequently beat, torture and arbitrarily detain suspected sex workers, often with little or no evidence that they engaged in ...
Security forces tear gas protesters in Ivory Coast
Security forces in Ivory Coast used teargas to disperse hundreds of students demonstrating Monday against overcrowded classrooms and empty libraries ...
C. African Republic child soldier killed by mob
An angry mob stoned to death a 17-year-old soldier in Central African Republic who had been freed from a rebel group and moved to the capital for his ...
Malian military prepares for final push on Kidal
Mali is in the final stages of preparation for an assault on the northern provincial capital of Kidal, the last rebel-held town in the country's ...
London hosts Somalia meeting to aid post-war gains
Somalia's president over the weekend received the country's first pieces of mail in more than two decades. It's the kind of small but hopeful ...
Libya bans Gadhafi-era officials from state posts
Under pressure from armed militias, Libya's parliament passed a sweeping law Sunday that bans anyone who served as a senior official under Moammar ...
Rights group: Iraqi panel needs help probing raid
Human Rights Watch on Saturday urged Iraqi authorities to give more financial and political backing to a government panel probing a deadly raid by ...