Ugandan police on Thursday arrested two presidential candidates planning on challenging current President Yoweri Museveni . Former Ugandan Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi , who had announced his intention to run for president last month and...

The Obama administration on Wednesday announced new rules requiring cities and towns to address racial disparities in their housing practices. The new rules, announced at a press conference in Chicago by Secretary Julian Castro...

A Baghdad court on Wednesday sentenced 24 alleged members of the Islamic State (IS) to death for the killing of hundreds of Iraqi soldiers during the group's raid across the country last year. The men were convicted...

After approximately two thirds of the votes have been counted in Sunday's Greek vote on the proposed bailout deal, results appear to show that the country has voted against the deal . Results posted by the Greek Ministry...

Serbia on Saturday reportedly asked Russia to veto a British UN Security Council resolution that would call the incident during the Bosnian War in which 8000 Muslim men were murdered genocide. Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic...

A federal judge issued a court order on Thursday that all Louisiana officials must grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples . The order, issued by Judge Martin Feldman of the US District Court...

UN observers on Thursday said that the parliamentary elections held in Burundi this week were unfair, not free and led to human rights violations. In the preliminary statement by the UN Electoral Observation Mission...

China's top legislature, the NPC Standing Committee , on Wednesday adopted a controversial new National Security Law that increases cyber security powers and provides the possibility of establishing efficient crisis management systems. At its bi-monthly session, 155 members...

BP on Thursday reached a settlement that will require the company to pay $18.7 billion in penalties and damages to settle all claims regarding the 2010 Gulf oil spill . The agreement, the largest corporate...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama on Wednesday issued an order that all Alabama counties must abide by a Supreme Court ruling allowing same-sex marriage. The order says...