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…
As the Gaza ceasefire takes hold, aid workers caution that the toughest challenges are yet to come, describing the…
An Indian court awarded a life sentence on Monday to a police volunteer convicted of the rape and murder…
The death toll from a gasoline tanker explosion in north-central Nigeria has risen to 86, the country’s emergency response…
Eight people died and seven were injured in a fire at a nursing home outside Belgrade on Monday which…
A British teenager on Monday pleaded guilty to charges of murdering three young girls in a knife attack in…