Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the current United Nations human rights chief who has taken office recently, gave his first speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. He called for international action to end the conflict in Syria and Iraq, The New York Times, reported.
The government of Qatar has confirmed it is responsible for the arrest of two human rights workers investigating the conditions of migrant laborers in the Arabian Gulf kingdom, which has been accused to maintaining working conditions akin to slavery by a variety of international human rights groups.
Ray Rice, the running back for the Baltimore Ravens who has been at the center of a controversy over the National Football League's policies regarding domestic violence, has been cut from the team and suspended indefinitely by the league after video surfaced of Rice knocking his wife unconscious.
As the clock ticks down to the November midterm elections, President Barack Obama has decided that he will not try to push through any reforms of immigration policy without the assistance of Congress, because it may damage the chances for Democrats to retain control of the Senate.
In a worrying development that epitomizes the new policy of assertiveness in Eastern Europe, Russia has taken custody of an Estonian intelligence officer, further ratcheting up tensions in a region already on edge over Russia's actions in Ukraine.
The former democratically-elected president of Egypt Mohamed Morsi, who was deposed in a military coup and subsequently arrested, has been charged with sharing state secrets with the government of Qatar.
A college student is drawing attention to the issue of sexual assaults on campus with her senior thesis art project.
The World Health Organization announced on Friday that two vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus might be ready by November. The priority would be given to medical personnel working on the front lines, which makeup the highest risk group The New York Times reports.
China, the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases and the second largest economy in the world, has announced plans to create a carbon marketplace in an effort to cope with the infamous smog and other environmental problems plaguing communities throughout the country.
The U.S. government has confirmed that airstrikes carried out recently in Somalia against al Shabaab targets have killed the leader of that group, which has kept Somalia in a state of fear and lawlessness for years.
The Islamic State, which already has a large presence of international fighters and strong allure abroad, has begun to export its tactics and techniques, teaching Islamist radicals in Egypt how to carry out terrorist attacks.
The government of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists that have been fighting for dominance in eastern Ukraine have reached a ceasefire agreement, despite intense fighting between both sides in the hours leading up to its start.
The Justice Department is opening an investigation into the practices of the police department in the city of Ferguson, Missouri, which has been the focus of both the national and international media after the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager named Michael Brown by a white police officer named Darren Wilson.
A new study confirms that the recently discovered remains of a dinosaur in Argentina belong a new species, the largest land animal to have ever walked the face of the Earth.
The former governor of Virginia Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen have both been found guilty on charges of corruption.
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