Nearly 3,000 people died in Puerto Rico in the six months after Hurricane Maria as a result of the storm, with the elderly and impoverished most affected, according to a long-awaited independent study ordered

People in the Philippines love basketball and wish their team played better. Many feel it's the country's short stature that's holding it back. But is a nationwide "growth spurt" about to change that?  

The speaker of Uganda's parliament called for the arrest of security agents involved in the suspected beating and torture of 33 people, including a popular musician-turned-opposition-MP. Local pop star and parliamentarian Robert Kyagulanyi, best

GENEVA: Kofi Annan, one of the world’s most celebrated diplomats and a charismatic symbol of the United Nations who rose through its ranks to become the first black African secretary-general, has died. He was

BAGHDAD: Four years after announcing its cross-border “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria, a stinging string of defeats has pushed the Daesh extremist group to reorganize and change strategy to survive.Having lost all urban centers

MOSCOW: Russia’s defense minister said on Tuesday that war-torn Syria would be ready to accept one million returning refugees, following Moscow-backed reconstruction work.“Since 2015, when towns and villages gradually started to be freed, more

Russia has called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting regarding a possible offensive in Syria's Idlib province. Earlier, Russia warned that rebels might stage a chemical attack, and then blame it on the

Clarification: 8/28/2018: An earlier version of this story singled out the Saudi-UAE-led coalition in the UN report. It has been changed to reflect the investigators accused all sides in the conflict. All sides in

After close to two weeks of tensions in Uganda, a court in the northern town of Gulu granted bail to four opposition legislators including MP Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, fondly known by his stage name Bobi

Donald Trump's comments referring to "large scale killings" of white farmers in South Africa last week may have mobilised the lunatic fringe in America and served the US president's narrow racist interests, but in