A steady stream of patients is coming out of New Delhi's brownish atmosphere for treatment at the Breathe Better clinic, where lung specialist Davinder Kundra is confronting what he calls the "double whammy" of deadly smog and the coronavirus. Kundra is among a growing number of doctors who...

A Syrian refugee and former detainee who underwent three years of torture in the Assad regime’s prison system has been admitted into the US’ prestigious Georgetown University. Omar Alshoghre, now a Sweden-based public speaker and activist who seeks to educate the world on his...

Young Nigerians who took to the streets to demand better governance are in shock after a brutal crackdown on their movement but say their resolve for change remains undimmed. Demonstrations began on October 8, targeting a hated police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), that the...

A leading international human rights group Thursday condemned Egypt's execution of 49 people so far this month - some arrested during a deadly crackdown on a mass protest in 2013 - and urged authorities in Cairo to grant fair retrials to those on the death row. Between Oct. 3 and 13, Egypt...