SYDNEY (Reuters) -A U.N. torture prevention panel terminated its suspended visit to Australia, saying it continued to face obstacles in getting access to some detention centres in the country. The…

Two weeks after a deadly earthquake struck Syria, only a trickle of UN aid has entered the rebel-held northwest of the war-ravaged country, with the slow pace sparking outrage and…

My grandparents were key to integration. Decades later, I belong to several groups and none at the same time I’m sitting in the auditorium at my children’s elementary school. On…

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting after North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles Monday, the country’s second launch in three days. https://apple.news/AepzTGXnIQe2XPIjebHe62Q

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A spectacular collection of centuries-old Cambodian jewelry has been returned to the Southeast Asian country, the latest treasures to be retrieved from the estate of…

Superhighways The Mayans were incredibly advanced — that's nothing new. But gauging the extent of their civilization has always proved tricky, since so much of it lies hidden by the…

KAHRAMANMARAS, Turkey — As Turkish rescue teams combed slowly through a gray mountain of broken concrete Wednesday night, a group of Syrians looked on, arms crossed, faces set in hard…

Our modern world now has more borderlines than ever before in human history. Not only that, but walls, barriers and fences, and the repressive border policies that go with them,…

We are more emotionally vulnerable than ever. The Doomsday Clock, established in 1947 by atomic scientists at the University of Chicago, is a symbol representing the world’s vulnerability: “The Clock has become a…