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UN rights chief urges new panel for Myanmar prosecutions

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...

At least six dead in Mogadishu bombing

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,...

Timeline of suspected Russian plot to infiltrate NRA, GOP

As Siberian gun rights activist Maria Butina faces a hearing in Washington, here is a look at the unusual path that led to her arrest. She's accused of working as an undeclared foreign agent, based on FBI suspicions that she and patron Alexander Torshin sought to infiltrate the NRA and build a...