The UN rights chief called Monday for the creation of a new "mechanism" tasked with preparing criminal indictments over atrocities committed in Myanmar, amid allegations of genocide against the Rohingya minority. In her first speech as head of the UN rights office, Michelle Bachelet...

A senior Iranian security official said Tehran will respond to any hostile action against the country and said the era of "hit and run" was over, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday. "The era of hit and run is over in the world and any hostile measure against our...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived Monday morning in Basra, the oil-rich southern city where protests over government neglect had escalated into deadly violence, his office said. After 12 protesters were killed and many of Basra's institutions torched last week, calm returned...

At least six people were killed Monday in an Al-Shabab attack on a local government building in Somalia's capital, the director of an ambulance service and a Reuters witness said. "We have carried six dead people and 16 others injured. The death toll may rise," Abdikadir Abdirahman,...