A group of Rohingya say they were beaten by traffickers and drank their own urine to stay alive on a perilous four-month journey at sea until their dramatic rescue near the Indonesian coast. The bedraggled survivors -- about 100 in all, mostly women and children -- described a high-seas...

DR Congo's justice minister was briefly arrested on Saturday, the latest twist in a crisis over proposed judicial reforms that have triggered violent street protests. He was released after being questioned by the police for several hours.  The action against Celestin Tunda Ya...

The Taliban rejected Saturday a newspaper report claiming their fighters had received rewards from Moscow's spies to kill US troops in Afghanistan. The New York Times reported Friday that bounties offered by a notorious arm of Russia's military intelligence service gave incentives to...

Hong Kong police banned Saturday a major demonstration against China's planned national security law for the city that critics fear would smother the financial hub's treasured freedoms, organizers said. The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) said the force had rejected its applications for...