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“I pay tribute to the courage of all media personnel who put their lives on the line for the sake of truth,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on the occasion of International Day to End Impunity for...

With another 400 Syrians killed and 2000 more injured in besieged Aleppo alone, a UN humanitarian official has appealed to the Security Council for action to stop the bloodshed in the devastated Arab country. The latest...

What will the next US president face as she, or he, takes over as the leader of the most powerful nation in the world? What are the issues that will draw the world’s attention once the...

Weeks of aerial bombings by Bashar al Assad regime and Russian forces and rebel counterattacks have heaped further misery on besieged Syrian civilians in Aleppo, who have refused to leave the shattered city during a three-day...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has refused to say if he would accept result of the November 8 election while repeating allegations of a rigged vote – a position his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton described as...

The three-month-old crackdown against demonstrations in Indian controlled Kashmir seems to be extending to even birds, as Indian forces have seized 153 pigeons suspecting them to be spies. According to the Times of India, the pigeons...

A generation of Syrian children maimed, tens of thousands killed as the five-year long conflict rages on in the last remaining streets of Aleppo. Schools, hospitals, houses destroyed, leaving deep imprints of excruciating moments of loss...

A barrage of attacks and counterattacks during the acrimonious and friction-filled town hall debate saw it ebb into an abrasive showdown soon after Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump attacked each other. The Democratic and Republican candidates barely...

Another gory chapter of Syrian conflict plays out in just a fortnight – around 400 massacred including 200 children, thousands maimed and injured, hospitals eliminated, reports of barrel bombs and all sorts of ammunition on civilian...

António Guterres, the former Portuguese prime minister, is set to be the next UN secretary general, after the Security Council agreed he should replace Ban Ki-moon of South Korea, whose term expires at the end of...