The U.N. human rights chief says in a new report that Venezuela's government registered nearly 5,300 killings during security operations last year, saying the deaths stemmed from "resistance to authority." Another 1,569 such killings were recorded in the first four to five months of 2019....

Hong Kong's chief executive Carrie Lam has asked to meet with the city's university students, her office said Thursday evening, as the embattled leader tries to fend off pressure from a month-long political crisis. Protesters stormed the local parliament on Monday, the 22nd anniversary of...

The military hardware is moving into place. So are the protesters. And, ever the showman, U.S. President Donald Trump is promising the “show of a lifetime” on the National Mall for the Fourth of July. Trump is marshaling tanks, bombers and other machinery of war for this year’s Independence Day...

A new public broadside by North Korean officials against U.S.-backed sanctions highlights the tough road ahead as negotiators prepare for talks in the wake of Sunday’s meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Media reports out of Washington have...

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday that he had not backed violent protests in Hong Kong, after Chinese state media blamed “Western ideologues” for fomenting unrest in the former British colony. Hundreds of protesters broke into the Hong Kong legislature on Monday after...

Taliban and U.S. negotiators are scrambling to rewrite a draft agreement that will outline the withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan and a verifiable Taliban guarantee to fight terrorism ahead of an all-Afghan peace conference Sunday. Officials familiar with the talks, but...

Russia is ready to step up dialogue with the United States over disarmament and strategic stability, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, adding that he discussed these issues with his American counterpart Donald Trump in Japan. "I think that reaching concrete measures in the field of...

The United States hit Cuba's state-run oil shipping firm Cubametales with financial sanctions Wednesday, saying it's a key player propping up Venezuela's President Nicol?s Maduro. "Maduro is clinging to Cuba to stay in power, buying military and intelligence operatives in exchange for oil,"...

The International Monetary Fund Wednesday approved a $6 billion, three-year loan for Pakistan to try to right the nation's economy. The IMF board released $1 billion to Pakistan immediately and said in a statement that the program aims to "support the authorities' economic reform program"...

South Sudan's army and several armed groups killed more than 100 civilians in a surge in violence in a southern region of the country after the signing of a peace deal last year, a U.N. report said Wednesday. The armed forces also committed sexual violence including rape against around 100...

China on Wednesday denounced British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt as “shameless”, saying it had made a diplomatic complaint to London after he warned of consequences if China neglected commitments made when it took back Hong Kong in 1997. China has stepped up a war of words with Hong Kong’s...

Hong Kong police said Wednesday they have arrested eight people for stealing and disclosing personal information of officers online, as the city grapples with the aftermath of unprecedented anti-government protests that saw its parliament ransacked. The semi-autonomous city has been plunged...

The United States and Germany slammed China during a closed-door United Nations Security Council meeting on Tuesday for detaining more than one million ethnic Uighurs and other Muslims, accusing Beijing of depriving them of their rights, diplomats said. China has been widely condemned for...

Ethiopia has begun restoring internet access Tuesday, 10 days after it was cut following the assassinations of six top government officials. On June 22, attackers shot and killed the Amhara governor and two other officials. On the same night in Addis Ababa, the country's army chief and his...

Sri Lankan police Tuesday arrested their top commander and a former defense chief over their alleged failures to prevent the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 258 people, spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said. He said Inspector-General Pujith Jayasundara and former defence secretary Hemasiri...

China on Tuesday rebuked Donald Trump for "gross interference" in Hong Kong's affairs after the US president said protesters who stormed the city's legislature wanted democracy for the financial hub. Trump weighed in on the protests in Hong Kong on Monday, saying the demonstrators are...

President Donald Trump said he wants to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan but is concerned that without an American military presence, the country could be used as a base for terrorist attacks on the United States. In an interview on Fox News broadcast on Monday, Trump said the problem...

A Venezuelan politician accused of an attempt to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro using explosing drones will face trial after a court on Monday accepted charges against him, his lawyer said. Opposition lawmaker Juan Requesens faces 30 years in prison if found guilty of the brazen...

China's central government condemned on Tuesday the ransacking of Hong Kong's legislature and said it backed the city authorities to investigate the "criminal responsibility of violent offenders". The semi-autonomous financial hub has been thrown into crisis by weeks of massive...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed at their meeting on Sunday to push forward dialogue for making a new breakthrough in the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, North Korean state media said on Monday. Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to...