New York (dpa) - The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a coronavirus resolution, after more than three months of deadlock over a response to the crisis. All 15 council members...

New York (dpa) - The coronavirus pandemic is reversing progress on ending child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM), putting millions more girls at risk, according to a UN report released on...

Hong Kong - Amnesty International says Beijing's passing of national security laws on Hong Kong’s behalf "represents the greatest threat to human rights in the city’s recent history."   The...

Hong Kong ( - By Viola Gaskell, - Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy group Demosisto announced its disbandment Tuesday, hours after China’s parliament passed a controversial national security law on...

London - Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday announced plans to spend an extra 1 billion pounds (1.24 billion dollars) on school construction to boost the British economy amid an expected...

Reykjavik - Gudni Johannesson was first elected as the president of Iceland in 2016, serving as the North Atlantic nation's sixth head of state. He secured a new four-year term in June 2020. The...

Beijing - By Ryan Ho Kilpatrick, - China’s top legislative body met in Beijing on Sunday for the first day of a three-day conference that is expected to expedite the passage of a new national...

Cairo (dpa) - Egypt said it had agreed with Ethiopia and Sudan to restart stalled talks in order to reach a deal on the rules of filling and operating Addis Ababa's disputed dam on the Blue Nile. The...

Istanbul (dpa) - An Istanbul court on Wednesday released three journalists from custody, their lawyers said, after the first hearing in a trial in which they are accused of revealing state secrets...