Recent intercommunal clashes in Sudan’s West Darfur State have forced 1,860 refugees to cross into neighboring Chad in the past week, according to a statement. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said the refugees -- mostly women, children, and the elderly -- have fled homes in villages...

NEW YORK (AP) — A study of the public's attitude toward the press reveals that distrust goes deeper than partisanship and down to how journalists define their very mission. In short: Americans want more than a watchdog. The study, released Wednesday by the Media Insight...

 Zaman al-Wasl obtained photographs showing two Syrian refugees, based in Austria, in a visit to their hometown Salamiyah in northwestern Hama province last March as well as they met with a militia commander.  The two brothers Abdul Karim and Yazan Shatat, who got their...

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo pitched itself as "a safe pair of hands” when it was awarded the Olympics 7 1/2 years ago. “The certainty was a crucial factor," Craig Reedie, an IOC vice president at the time, said after the 2013 vote in Buenos Aires. Now, nothing is certain as Tokyo's...