A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy. Sher Abbas Stanikzai, political deputy at the Foreign Ministry, made the remarks in a speech on Saturday…
Chinese leader Xi Jinping may not have personally accepted US President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to his inauguration, but Beijing…
Pope Francis has criticized US President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport immigrants as a “disgrace.” The pontiff, speaking during…
The death toll from a gasoline tanker explosion in north-central Nigeria has risen to 86, the country’s emergency response…
When Innocent James completed his chores after school, he would light a kerosene lamp and lay down to read…
Three people were killed and three others were injured in an attack on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on…
An Indian police volunteer was convicted on Saturday of the rape and murder of a junior doctor at a…
Two veteran Iranian Supreme Court judges, known for handling high-profile cases, were shot dead in Tehran by an assailant…