European and African leaders gathered for a summit to deepen economic and security ties, with emergency talks on Ukraine also on the cards.

A US appeals court suspended the release of hundreds of people on bail after they had been arrested by immigration ...

Nearly one in three women have experienced intimate partner or sexual violence, the World Health Organization said.

Dozens of Indigenous protesters, some holding babies, peacefully blocked the entrance to the UN climate summit in Brazil on Friday to demand a meeting with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and ...

Around 700 people have been killed in three days of election protests in Tanzania, the main opposition party said Friday, with protesters still on the streets in the midst of an internet blackout.

Georgia’s attempt to ban three main opposition forces risks pushing the country toward a “one-party dictatorship,” the Council of Europe said Wednesday. The warning comes the day after Georgia’s ...

Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage at the UN General Assembly just over a week after an independent UN Commission concluded that Israel has committed genocide — the worst crime under international law.

Despite major gains in education and reducing poverty in recent decades, entrenched inequalities are eroding trust in institutions and democratic systems around the world, the UN warned Tuesday.

Government gestures to calm deadly protests in Indonesia have done little to address the economic inequality and hardship fueling the unrest, leaving deep resentment to linger and flare up again, ...

More than half of Europe and the Mediterranean basin was affected by drought in the first ten days of August, according to an AFP analysis on Monday of European Drought Observatory (EDO) data. The ...