Russia is slated to support Palestine in its bid for recognition as a member state at the United Nations, according to one Palestinian official.
Speaking at a Delhi conference on HIV and AIDS attended by many top officials, India’s health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad described homosexuality as a disease which has come from other countries, and gay sex as unnatural.
Beijing solidified a business partnership with Zimbabwe last week that unionists say is responsible for abusive work environments across the southern African nation.
UN refugee camps are at capacity all over eastern Africa. But Somalis keep fleeing their country headed to Kenya, Ethiopia and elsewhere.
Overcrowding sparked a riot at a massive refugee camp in Kenya.
American media has largely forgotten Khaled Said's face in its retelling of the Arab Spring narrative.But Said's face-- pictures of it before and after it was bashed in by Egyptian police-- spurred on the revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak.
Alexandria's Criminal court postponed a verdict in the murder trial of Egypt's revolutionary icon, Khaled Said, today.
Could Thaksin Shinawatra reclaim power in the country from which he was exiled?
Equatorial Guinea, one of the smallest African countries but surely the fastest in women's soccer ascendancy, fought Norway today, a traditional powerhouse fallen on less stellar times in a Group D encounter.
Has judgment day come too late for the ailing Khmer Rouge engineers of the Cambodian Genocide, now on trial at a UN-backed tribunal in Phnom Penh?
Violence against women is endemic of the lawless African nation, which the UN has sadly called the rape capital of the world.
In defiance of the ICC, Bashir and Hu Jintao are meeting in Beijing this week.
It's judgment day for the aged in Cambodia.
Kenya has witnessed a dramatic rise in the number of Somali refugees fleeing that country’s endless wars and, now, the worst drought in six decades, according to humanitarian groups.
The Gaza Flotilla planned for this week is slated to set sail from Greece this Thursday or Friday.
The UN Security Council approved a resolution to protect the disputed Abyei region for 6 months.
Israel has backed down from its threat to ban journalists covering the pending flotilla to Gaza from entering the country for a decade.
Ericsson, Refugees United, UNHCR & MTN have launched their multi-country campaign to help reconnect lost refugees.
After a diplomatic meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron in London, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that Beijing supports a political resolution to the conflict in Libya.
Should Gaddafi leave Libya, he could now stand trail at the UN's International Criminal Court.
Despite the escalation of long-running tensions over settlements and a flotilla to deliver aid to Gaza, Israel has recently taken measures to woo Paris and other key votes at the UN.
In the ongoing case over the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the first woman to be convicted of genocide will get life in prison
