The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in China surged 14 percent over the past year with most cases transmitted through sex rather than blood transfusions, state media reported on Saturday. More than 820,000 people

Palestine filed a complaint against the United States with the United Nations top court over Washington's decision to move the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.  In a statement issued on Friday,

The UK Labour Party has been hit by various accusations of anti-Semitism, many relating to its leader, Jeremy Corbyn. In this UpFront web extra from the wider discussion on the recent anti-Semitism dispute within

UNITED NATIONS, United States: After a month of militia clashes that left more than 100 people dead, Libya’s UN-backed foreign minister on Friday called for the country’s UN political mission to transform into a

TUNIS, Tunisia: Tunisia and Italy have agreed to step up efforts to send Tunisian migrants identified as illegally staying in Italy back to their home country and to improve the cooperation between their governments.

MOSCOW: The number of Russian civilians traveling to Syria, where Moscow is running a military operation in support of President Bashar Assad, reached record levels this year, according to official figures published by a

On September 26, British Prime Minister Theresa May told the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani that she has "serious concerns" about the imprisonment of British-Iranian dual citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. In April 2016, Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested

Iraq's Kurds will be voting again in a parliamentary election that could disrupt the delicate balance of power in their semi-autonomous region. The vote on Sunday comes a year after a failed bid for independence that

Police have clashed with protesters who gathered in downtown Barcelona to protest another march in support of Spanish police.  Saturday's protests come ahead of the anniversary of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum.  Separatists threw

In late August, a German citizen was stabbed to death in the East German town of Chemnitz. As the police launched an investigation into the murder, it announced that it had arrested two suspects,