Edward Snowden is requesting to be pardoned during Barack Obama’s dwindling days in office, a request that seems unlikely to be met.
In his weeklong Asia trip, President Obama will confront emotional legacies of the Vietnam War as well as those of World War II.
George Clooney is seen an unknown blond over the weekend. This sight provoked cheating rumors and brought back George's previous womanizing ways. Are the cheating rumors true while he is married to Amal Alamuddin?
Europe failed to properly deal with the refugee crisis in 2015, an Amnesty International report said.
Amal Alamuddin proves that she is a star in her own right but do not want to claim 'celebrity' rights just because she is married to George Clooney.
Kim Jong-un scared the world by announcing that North Korea has a hydrogen bomb that is ready to be detonated anytime.
Saudi Arabia, one of the world's most repressive regimes, is looking to hire as many as eight new executioners to behead and dismember people found guilty of various crimes.
The United States has deported a former high-ranking official in the Salvadoran government who was accused of war crimes.
Iraq's prime minister ordered the military and police to arrest any militia members who may have committed atrocities after liberating the city of Tikrit after multiple reports of looting and arson were made.
According to a report released on Tuesday by the Human Rights Watch organization, Israel unlawfully coerced almost 7,000 Eritrean and Sudanese nationals into going back to their home countries even though some might risk serious abuse by their oppressive governments.
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.
A new report says that the deaths of more than 1,000 protesters when the Egyptian security forces cleared away a protest at Rab'a al-Adawiya most likely constituted a crime against humanity.
The Israeli Knesset, equivalent to a parliament, has banned an Arab member from participating in the body because of something she said.
A new report reveals Afghan militias that receive funding and other support from the United States have committed human rights abuses including extrajudicial killings.
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