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The United States is half-way through a three-year term on the main U.N. rights body and had long threatened to quit if it was not reformed, accusing the 47-member Geneva-based body of being anti-Israel.

A teen boy was schooled after he greeted French President Emmanuel Macron with a breezy "How's it going, Manu" during his visit to the Mont Valerien fort.

In a row that could have implications for the expansion of the hub, Surinder Arora issued a UK High Court claim against the west London airport over his plans to build a 2,077-space, nine-storey car park on land he owns at Heathrow, the Sunday Times repor...

Eight people, including two from Mexico, were injured when a taxi crashed into pedestrians on a sidewalk near Red Square in Moscow.

The scheme had been hatched by younger sister Safaa Boular, 18, who wanted to target crowds at the British Museum but had been arrested and remanded in jail.

President Donald Trump has accused China of unfair trade practices and threatened to impose tariffs on up to $150 billion in Chinese goods.

Divya George, the mother of the five-year-old girl who only weighs 8.5 kilograms and is the size of a 1-year-old child, posted online that the captain of the airline refused to allow the child to fly with an infant seat belt and callously said that it is...

Iloputaife said he was on vacation when the press release bearing his picture was released and was informed by a neighbour that he was a crime suspect on his return home.

Outagamie County District Attorney Melinda Tempelis said in court Monday that Brianna Gussert, who was unable to walk, talk or care for herself, suffered a "slow death."

He may be the leader of a country with one of the worst human rights records in the world, but Kim was granted a friendly audience with Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who had forked out $15 million to keep him accommodated in a luxury hotel a...

Whatever the results, it will be one of the more unusual summits in recent history as a flamboyant, often erratic US president gets a close-up look at a hereditary socialist despot who sits on a nuclear weapons program.

Donald Trump was the oldest US president ever to take office when he has sworn in a little over 500 days ago, and will turn 72 on Thursday. The North Korean leader is still in his mid-thirties and remains among the world's youngest heads of government, bu...

Some hope for an end to the Cold War confrontation and that North Korea will eventually give up its nuclear weapons, others are sceptical about Pyongyang's intentions.

Apart from Gul Bukhari, a Pakistan based writer and activist, five other bloggers since last year have gone missing amidst growing censorship by the Pakistani military in the run-up to election.

Last year, a Saudi man tried to set himself on fire in front of the Kaaba -- the square stone building in the centre of the mosque compound -- but was stopped by security forces.

The Afghan Taliban said foreign forces would be excluded from the ceasefire and that operations against them would continue. They also said they would defend themselves against any attack.