Leaders of the four major political parties in Nepal reached an agreement Monday on key issues for a new constitution, dividing the country into eight federal states. An assembly elected in 2008 was tasked with completing the...

Lawmakers in Romania rejected a request from prosecutors to strip Prime Minister Victor Ponta of immunity on Tuesday, despite him being named as a suspect last week in an anti-corruption probe. Prosecutors questioned Ponta in...

An Egyptian criminal court on Tuesday sentenced 11 individuals to death for their involvement in a 2012 soccer riot. The riots, which occurred in Port Said, killed more than 70 and injured about 1,000 others crushed by crowds attempting...

Ireland's abortion law threatens the lives of women who choose to remain in the country, Amnesty International (AI) said on Tuesday. Under the country's abortion law, women are only permitted to undergo abortion proceedings if...

The families of two Yemeni men who were killed by US drone strikes filed a lawsuit Sunday against the US claiming that the men, Salem bin Ali Jaber and Waleed bin Ali Jaber, were "innocent bystanders" who were...

Iranian authorities on Monday arrested Hamid Baghaei, former vice president under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . Baghaei's arrest is the second detention of a high-ranking official from the Ahmadinejad administration, as Mohammad Reza Rahimi, another former vice president, was convicted...

The Eritrean government has committed "systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations," according to a report released Monday by a panel of UN investigators. The investigators were denied access to Eritrea but were able to conduct their investigation...

The Obama administration sent a formal report to Congress criticizing the Egyptian government for its human rights abuses and lack of movement toward democracy but still supporting sending $1.3 billion to Egypt in mostly military...

The hostilities in Afghanistan are leading to the killing and wounding of thousands and the forced relocation of families into neighboring countries, according to Mark Bowden , the UN Secretary-General's Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, in statements [press...

Burundi opposition leader Agathon Rwasa on Saturday said that a presidential election must be held by August so that a newly elected government is in place by the time current president Pierre Nkurunziza's term ends...