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Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged North Korea to end forced labor, accusing the reclusive regime of "predatory exploitation" as…

As Barack Obama's secretary of State, Hillary Clinton loyally carried out his agenda, but since mounting her presidential bid she…

As France's right-wing Republicans punish a leading figure over her comments about race, the party is facing a tricky balancing…

Islamist Al Shabaab gunmen ambushed and killed the nephew of Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud in the capital Mogadishu on…

At a meeting in Moscow in July, a top Iranian general unfurled a map of Syria to explain to his…

The top US commander in Afghanistan believes American forces broke their rules of engagement in calling in an air strike…

Poor farmers the world over are increasingly falling prey to natural disasters, droughts and torrential rain largely due to climate…

The death toll from a typhoon that struck China on the weekend has risen to 19, with four people missing,…

Emergency workers unearthed 10 more bodies from a landslide outside the Guatemalan capital, bringing the number of confirmed dead to…

A former president of the United Nations General Assembly accepted over US$1 million in bribes from a billionaire Chinese real…