Libya’s UN-supported government has requested United Nations assistance following the discovery of mass graves in territory recently recaptured from rival forces commanded by Khalifa Haftar, the UN said Monday. UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said the UNpolitical mission in Libya "is in...

Doctors Without Borders has pulled out of a hospital in the Afghan capital where gunmen last month killed 25 people, including mothers, in a horrific attack on a maternity ward. The organisation, which specialises in medical assistance in hostile environments, said it feared being the...

Sudan's public prosecutor announced Monday the discovery of a mass grave containing conscripts allegedly killed after trying to flee a military camp in 1998 under ousted president Omar al-Bashir's regime. The grim discovery came as part of investigations into misdeeds committed under...

Protesters were marching on the Georgia state capitol on Monday after the fatal shooting of a black man by a white police officer sparked further public outrage over the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of US law enforcement. Georgia prosecutors said they were weighing bringing...