The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) in Gaza welcomed the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch an investigation into alleged Israeli crimes in the Palestinian territories. "This is a remarkable and historic decision and we have waited for a long time"...

Amnesty International urged on Thursday Egyptian authorities to release a 29-year-old mother from custody after she went missing nearly two years ago together with her husband and toddler in what the group says was an act of forced disappearance. According to a statement by the London-based...

 (AP) — “It’s a world of lawlessness,” Rev. Kim Dal-sung muttered over the phone as he drove his tiny KIA over narrow dirt paths zigzagging through greenhouses made of plastic sheets and tubes. In the bleak landscape of dull blue and gray in Pocheon, a town near South Korea’s...

BAGHDAD (AP) — It began like any other Sunday in the Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad for worshipper Louis Climis. That day nearly 11 years ago would end with blood-stained pews, anguish and lives lost. Six al-Qaeda-linked militants stormed and seized the church, killing dozens...