Avaneesh Pandey

The U.N.'s special rapporteur on human rights in Iran has raised concerns over the "alarming" increase in executions in the country.

The new bill was introduced less than a week after a gunman stormed Canada's parliament building, killing a soldier at a nearby war memorial.

The latest clashes in Lebanon reportedly erupted on Friday, following which 19 people, including eight civilians were killed.

The disclosure of the latest plan comes amid continuing clashes between Israelis and Palestinians living in the Occupied West Bank.

Several people have been tested for Ebola in Australia, but so far, no cases have been reported in the country.

Kurdish forces have been holding out for weeks against a concerted assault by militants of the Islamic State group on Kobani.

The announcement came just hours after Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi alleged that “foreign hands” were behind the attacks.

For years, scientists have attempted to create cells that would not only kill cancerous cells but also do it without harming healthy cells.

The Burmese government has long claimed that the 1.3 million Rohingya Muslims living in Myanmar are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

Alan Eustace, 57, a Google Inc. senior vice president and veteran pilot, broke a record set by Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner.

At least 30 soldiers were killed and 29 others wounded in Friday’s attacks on two military checkpoints in north Sinai.

The DNA was obtained from a 45,000-year-old thigh bone found in 2008 on the banks of the Irtysh River in Siberia.

The search operation had brought back memories of the Cold War, when Soviet ships routinely conducted operations in the Baltic Sea.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank reflects China’s desire to counter the perceived hegemony of international lenders dominated by the West.

The Iraqi army, trained by the U.S. before its pullout from the country in 2011, has been plagued by sectarian divisions within its ranks.

The U.S. Department of Treasury has estimated that the Islamic State group earned nearly $1 million a day from oil sales since mid-June.

The shooting is the latest in a series of attacks targeting the Hazara community, which is an ethnic and religious minority in Pakistan.

Two former British army chiefs conceded that their troops were 'under-prepared and under-resourced' during the campaign in Afghanistan.

More than 70 witnesses, including 30 Iraqis, testified during the course of the trial, which lasted over two months.

The planes had been identified as MiG 21 or MiG 23 models by witnesses interviewed earlier by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Demonstrators continue to occupy city streets despite a recent injunction by the Hong Kong High Court barring protesters from blocking roads.

The Yazidis, who live primarily around the Sinjar mountains in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province, have faced several attacks from ISIS.

Investigators have reportedly found that a 2011 mission, dubbed “Operation Moonlight,” potentially compromised the president's security.

The U.S. military had delivered nearly 30 packages containing weapons, ammunition and medical supplies for Kurdish fighters on Sunday.

Just hours before the talks began, Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying gave an indication of a possible concession.

The Make in India campaign, launched by Modi on Sept. 25, aims to turn India into a global manufacturing hub.

Afghanistan produces more than 80 percent of the world's illicit opium, which reportedly helps fund the Taliban and other insurgent groups.

Iran has diluted about 9,000 pounds of enriched uranium down to the level of natural uranium, the IAEA reportedly said.

The announcement from Turkey, which has so far refused to allow Kurdish fighters to cross into Syria, marks a major policy shift in Kobani fight.