Secondary-school students and retirees joined forces to protest in Hong Kong on Saturday, the first of several weekend rallies planned across the city, as pro-democracy activists vowed to battle what they say are police brutality and unlawful arrests. A top Hong Kong official said the...

Protesters in cities across the world staged rallies Friday demanding leaders take tougher action against climate change, days before the latest global conference, which this year takes place in Madrid. The rallies kicked off in Australia, where people affected by recent devastating...

The Taliban said it was "way too early" Friday to speak of resuming direct talks with Washington, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump stated during a surprise visit to Afghanistan that the U.S. was again meeting with the militants. "It is way too early to talk about the resumption of...

Frontline state Greece is feeling the strain of hosting thousands of migrants in camps and Europe must come up with a policy to ease the crisis, the United Nations senior refugee official said Thursday. Conditions in the huge open-air camp on the island of Lesbos were "extremely...