U.N. human rights envoy Yanghee Lee has arrived in Myanmar on a 12-day visit amid growing concern about reports of abuse of members of the Rohingya Muslim minority in a government security crackdown. Attackers killed nine police officers on Oct. 9 in a coordinated assault on posts near...

A day before the suspect in the Fort Lauderdale airport rampage was to appear in court, a website released footage that appears to show him calmly drawing a pistol and opening fire in the baggage claim area. The video recording posted on TMZ's website...

Foreign minister Boris Johnson has arrived in the United States to meet close advisers to President-elect Donald Trump and senior Congressional leaders, Britain's foreign ministry said on Sunday. "Following the successful meeting last month between the prime minister's chiefs of staff and...

 Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei paid tribute to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president who died on Sunday, as a "companion of struggle" despite differences between them. "The loss of my companion of struggle, whose cooperation with me dated back 59 years, is...

The Mexican authorities have arrested the alleged gunman who shot and wounded an official from the US consulate in the western city of Guadalajara, prosecutors said Sunday. The Jalisco state prosecutor's office said on Twitter that a special unit "detained the attacker of the consular...

President-elect Donald Trump accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia engaged in cyberattacks aimed at disrupting the U.S. elections, his incoming chief of staff Reince Priebus said on Sunday, adding that "actions may be taken" in response. Speaking on Fox News...

 Barack Obama travels to Chicago for his farewell speech Tuesday, returning to the town where his meteoric rise to become America's first black president all began. The third largest U.S. city is also important to his post-presidency: it will be home to the Obama presidential library...

Pope Francis says he realises he may be the target of an attack but that he will continue to travel without bulletproof vehicles or heavy security because he wants to get close to people. Unlike his predecessors, who used bulletproof popemobiles or limousines, Francis uses ordinary cars on...

(The Guardian)- Soldiers in Bouaké, Ivory Coast have opened fire and trapped the country’s defence minister inside a local official’s house shortly after a deal to end a two-day mutiny appeared to have been agreed, a Reuters witness said. The turn of events came just an hour and a half after...

At least five people, including three soldiers were killed and 13 others wounded when twin bomb blasts targeted a busy restaurant in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, according to government officials. Abdifatah Omar Hallane, a spokesman for Banadir region in Mogadishu, told Anadolu...

The United States warned its citizens against visiting the tourist destination of Gambia on Saturday, and told those there to considering leaving, citing the risk of unrest as President Yahya Jammeh digs in despite losing an election. "The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens against...

The US authorities are not ruling out "the terrorism angle" as a potential motive of the Iraq war veteran accused of killing five people at the Fort Lauderdale International Airport, officials said Saturday. Police interrogated the suspect, 26-year-old Esteban Santiago, throughout much of...

 President Barack Obama Saturday spoke about the importance of ordinary people working together for change in a preview of the farewell address he will deliver in Chicago next week. Many departing U.S. presidents have given farewell addresses as they leave office, a tradition dating to...

President Rodrigo Duterte has reiterated his desire to put an end to a Daesh-linked group which continues to pose a serious threat to peace in the country's south. In a state-run radio interview Saturday, presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said that Duterte had emphasized the campaign...

Sri Lankan police used water cannons to try to break up violent clashes Saturday between government supporters and villagers marching against what they say is a plan to take over private land for an industrial zone in which China will have a major stake. The clashes took place as Prime...

Heavy rains continued to hammer Thailand's flood-ravaged south Saturday, bringing the death toll up to 12 and leaving thousands of villages partially submerged, authorities said. The flooding, which was roof-high in some areas, has affected more than 700,000 people since it started a week...

Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov upset top seed and defending champion Milos Raonic of Canada at the Brisbane International on Saturday to set up a title clash against Japan's Kei Nishikori. Seventh seed Dimitrov saved a set point in the opener on his way to a 7-6(7) 6-2 win over world number...

The suspect in a deadly shooting at a Florida airport used a gun that he had stored in his checked luggage, raising questions about airport security and whether safety officials need to change the current rules. Esteban Santiago, 26, retrieved his gun from his bag on the carousel, loaded it...

Russia isn't done intruding in U.S. politics and policymaking. Immediately after Election Day, Russia began a "spear-phishing" campaign to try to trick people into revealing their email passwords, targeting U.S. government employees and think tanks that specialize in national security,...

 Unidentified gunmen killed eight members of Afghanistan's Hazara minority who were working as miners in the northern province of Baghlan, a local government official said. Faiz Mohammad Amiri, governor of Taleh va Barfak district, said the eight dead and three other wounded, who all came...