ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan women are forbidden from praying loudly or reciting the Quran in front of other women, according to a Taliban government minister.
It's the latest restriction on women following morality laws that ban them from raising their voice and baring their faces outside the ...
By SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — A Paris court is expected to announce Wednesday its verdict in the trial of a Rwandan former doctor accused of having played a role in Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
The Advocates-General, in charge of the prosecution, requested 30 years in prison ...
LONDON (AP) — More than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track.
About 1.25 million people died of TB last year, the new report said, adding that TB ...
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar warned that the Southeast Asian nation is in crisis, with conflict escalating, criminal networks "out of control" and human suffering at unprecedented levels.
Julie Bishop told the U.N. General ...
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The national elections commission in Belarus on Tuesday registered an initiative group for authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to seek a seventh term in office, but rejected the attempts of two opposition politicians to get on the ballot.
The election, ...
By HOGIR ABDO Associated Press
QAMISHLI, Syria (AP) — The leader of the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in northeast Syria in an interview with The Associated Press called for international mediators to continue pushing for diplomatic solutions to the complex web of conflicts in the Middle ...