washington — When Jean Lee walks into a room, the first place she will often look is up at the corners. It’s a habit the journalist picked up in North Korea, when she was...
Islamabad, Pakistan — A rights watchdog said Wednesday that human rights in Afghanistan, especially those of women and girls, should be at the center of a U.N. Security Council-mandated independent assessment of the global...
Israel’s Supreme Court said Wednesday it would hear petitions in September seeking to overturn a law passed this week by parliament’s right-wing governing coalition to curb the court’s authority to overturn laws that the...
GENEVA — A U.N. watchdog committee condemned Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act Wednesday and called on the government to repeal what it calls a harmful, discriminatory law, which criminalizes consenting sexual relations between adults of the...
london — Sinead O’Connor, the gifted Irish singer-songwriter who became a superstar in her mid-20s but was known as much for her private struggles and provocative actions as for her fierce and expressive music,...
PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA — Cambodian officials say renovation work on a naval base in the coastal city of Sihanoukville is nearly complete, but U.S. officials have voiced suspicions the facility, being upgraded by China,...
washington — A federal judge has blocked the Biden administration’s asylum rule for migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border. In his ruling on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in Oakland, California, deemed the rules...
A year after Sri Lanka’s economic collapse brought in a new government, the island nation is past the worst of the crisis. But as Anjana Pasricha reports, Sri Lanka’s economic woes are far from...
Accra — Ghana’s parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty. The move comes three decades after the last death sentence was carried out in the West African nation. Rights group Amnesty International has...
When people hear the phrase “tank man,” they often think of the man who blocked advancing tanks in China’s Tiananmen Square during a clampdown on protests on June 5, 1989. But Lithuania has a...