MAIDUGURI, Nigeria—The leader of a vigilante fighter group in Nigeria says Boko Haram militants have killed about 45 people in an attack on a village. Muhammed...
WASHINGTON—If you took the millions of people touched by U.S. President Barack Obama’s immigration announcement Thursday and gathered them together, their ranks would rival the population...
SEOUL, South Korea—North Korea is angrily reacting to a landmark U.N. resolution on its widely condemned human rights record with a threat to bolster its 1.2...
The U.N. General Assembly’s human rights committee on Friday approved a resolution urging Myanmar to allow its persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority “access to full citizenship on...
WASHINGTON—Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim told The Associated Press on Friday he’s confident of acquittal in his sodomy trial, so long as the Southeast Asian nation’s...
MANILA, Philippines—An All Nippon Airways flight bound for Tokyo with 192 people on board turned back to Manila Friday for an emergency landing after smoke billowed...
SAN DIEGO — A Marine who was left paralyzed by a sniper’s bullet in Afghanistan fulfilled a promise to himself on Friday and walked using robotic...
WASHINGTON — United against President Barack Obama but uncertain how to stop him, outraged Republicans struggled for a response on immigration Friday that would check the...
KIEV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s revolution began with a status update on Facebook. Angered by another high-handed move by an increasingly unpopular government, activist reporter Mustafa Nayyem...
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Unified School District will pay more than $139 million to end remaining litigation involving an elementary school teacher convicted of...