HUMAN RIGHTS

Tensions flared in northwestern Myanmar after 10 Muslims were beaten to death by a mob of Buddhist vigilantes Sunday in retaliation to the rape and murder of a girl allegedly by Muslim men.

For most Chinese nationals under 30, the Tiananmen Square Massacre does not even register on their timeline of contemporary historical events.

Politicians, musicians and peace activists, among others, gathered at the National Park in the center of the capital to demand tougher punishment against rapists.

She will journey to Georgia on Tuesday, travel to Azerbaijan on Wednesday, and then move on to Turkey.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is expected to be pressured on the Syrian crisis when he meets with European leaders in St. Petersburg on Monday.

The United Nations Human Rights Commission officially condemned last week's Houla massacre in Syria.

Those who order, help or fail to stop attacks on civilians are individually criminally liable for their actions, U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said in Geneva.

In 2011, this tiny nation of only 8-million people recorded 86 murders per 100,000 inhabitants (the highest rate on the planet), up from 82 in the prior year, and double the rate from just six years ago

The Prenatal Nondiscrimination' bill would have imposed criminal penalties on doctors accused of performing abortions solely due to the fetus's gender.

The legal activist gives his first public speaking engagement in America after leaving from China.

The question is whether, in light of growing human rights problems from China and Russia to the Middle East and North Africa, the United States is doing enough to factor human rights into its foreign policy.

This Friday marks the debut of the controversial documentary U.N. ME. The film investigates the hidden practices of the United Nations and argues that the 60-year-old organization isn't living up to its principles.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been receiving treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer for more than a year now. He has been in power since 1999 and intends to run for re-election in October, but questions remain about whether his health will hold up and who could replace him in the event it does not.

Several parts of Homs were shelled Wednesday morning while Damascus witnessed overnight explosions, close on the heels of UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan's warning that the recent violence had left Syria at a tipping point.

Turkey's indictment of four Israeli military officials on Monday raises questions about its diplomatic ambitions in the Middle East.

Abortion has been legal in Turkey since 1983 (during the first ten weeks of pregnancy) and has not played any significant role in the nation?s political debates, making Erdogan?s sudden statements somewhat puzzling.

The U.N. Security Council is to meet Sunday afternoon to discuss the Houla massacre in Syria, diplomats said.

Brett Kimberlin, also known as the Speedway Bomber, is the infamous male who set an Indiana town ablaze with a series of coordinated bombings in 1978. The man behind the madness was also convicted of thirty three additional crimes, including illegal use of a Department of Defense insignia, and the Presidential Seal, both of which were used to procure the hard-to-come-by explosives used in the bombings.

One represents Egypt's future -- the other its past. Who are Mohammed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq, Egypt's leading presidential candidates?

As soon as the door opened, 15 men -- armed with pistols, machetes and iron rods -- burst into the house and began beating the young Angolan musicians and activists who were known for protesting against government corruption and the use of violent tactics to suppress political dissent.

On Tuesday, Cuba?s official Communist Party newspaper Granma finally gave an official estimate of the number of people currently incarcerated in the nation?s jails.