HUMAN RIGHTS

The Tibetan spiritual leader is currently in the U.S. for a series of lectures and public talks, while the new Taiwan president is scheduled for stopover during her impending trip to Panama.

The U.N. human rights chief said “well-functioning migration governance systems” are needed to assess requests for international protections.

The U.N. Human Rights Committee called on the majority Catholic country to legalize the practice for cases involving fatal abnormalities.

The House of Commons voted 444-69 in favor of the Investigatory Powers Bill, which now goes to the House of Lords.

The boat, appearing to be a large fishing vessel and carrying a “significant number” of people, sank in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday.

The full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, voted 12-3 that the government can get the information under a decades-old legal theory.

A court in Buenos Aires finds 15 defendants guilty in Operation Condor, a joint terror program of South American regimes in the 1970s and '80s

The Senate Judiciary Committee postponed consideration of a measure that would require government authorities to obtain a search warrant before asking tech companies to hand over old emails.

In a bid to support democracy in the Southeast Asian country, the Obama administration announced Tuesday the removal of Myanmar’s 10 state-owned companies from its blacklist.

The priest, identified only by his surname Han, was a Korean clergyman with Chinese nationality and lived in a Chinese town near the North Korean border.

The solid red profile pictures are highlighting the latest violence, particularly in Aleppo, where two medical facilities were attacked this week.

Reinhold Hanning, 94, told a courtroom in western Germany that he had never spoken about his time as a Nazi guard in Auschwitz — not even with his family.

The reclusive state is reportedly planning to blow up the half-size replica for target practice.

The government has reportedly strengthened barbed wire fences, set up surveillance cameras and planted mines along parts of the border.

Hundreds of thousands of tourists will descend on Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics this summer — but there’s a part of the city the government is hoping to hide.

European data protection officials have issues with a proposed new mechanism for companies to transfer data from Europe to the U.S.

The Palestinian faction said Israel's decision to halt cement deliveries to Gaza would be met by retaliation. Israel's decision came amid allegations of improper use of the materials.

At least eight young men were crucified on electrical poles, and a total of 35 people were arrested over the weekend.

The meeting marks a continued shift in bilateral relations that faltered under Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan.

An Amnesty International report documents forced labor, wage theft and intimidation as the nation prepares for the 2022 soccer tournament.

Privacy groups say their warnings about the potential abuses of face-recognition technology are not being heard.