Myanmar President Thein Sein signed the Monogamy Bill into law on Monday, prohibiting marriage to more than one spouse or living with an unmarried partner, which many view as an attack on the minority Muslim population in the country....

Burkina Faso's Constitutional Council rejected opposition presidential candidate Eddie Constance Konboigo on Saturday ahead of the elections scheduled for October. Konboigo was head of ousted president Blaise Compaore's Congress for Democracy and Progress party, and he was one of...

South Sudan government troops on Sunday reportedly attacked a village in the country's Unity state despite a ceasefire that was set to begin the same day. The attack was reported to the Associated Press by John Riek,...

On appeal from a guilty verdict in 2014, three Al Jazeera journalists on Saturday received a three-year prison sentence for their roles in releasing video footage that allegedly contained false news in support of...

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Friday urged the global community to develop comprehensive solutions to allow for safe and legal migration after 70 bodies, believed to be Syrian asylum seekers, were discovered in a...

The United Nations Security Council on Friday condemned the use of sexual violence as a "tactic of war" in Iraq and Syria. Following a briefing by UN Special Representative for Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab...

Google filed a response Thursday to the European Commission (EC) , rejecting EU antitrust charges that Google structures its search results to favor its own services over those of rivals. The EU's investigation of Google over...

Guatemalan judicial authorities must prevent further "obstruction of justice" in the ongoing genocide trial against the former dictator and the former chief of intelliegence, according to a statement by two experts from the UN Office of the...

Serbian prosecutors on Thursday charged former Bosnian Army general Naser Oric with war crimes against prisoners of war in 1992. Oric is accused of involvment in the killing of three Bosnian Serb prisoners of war in the...

A spokesperson for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Lambert Mende, announced Wednesday that President Joseph Kabila signed parliament-approved legislation to keep elections on a timeline that will not violate the Constitution . Beginning in...