An Iranian Grammy award winner says he has been pardoned from serving a three-year sentence over his song that became an ...

They are forcing teenage girls in Turkey to testify in court against their parents and older siblings, a dangerous erosion of ...

Facing a swirl of conflicts and crises across a fragmented world, leaders attending this week’s annual U.N. gathering are being challenged: Work together — not only on front-burner issues but on ...

Facing a swirl of conflicts and crises across a fragmented world, leaders attending this week's annual U.N. gathering are being challenged: Work together -- not only on front-burner issues but on ...

A procession of speakers exhorted the audience packed inside Harvard University’s Sanders Theater on Sunday afternoon to ...

The General Assembly approved the summit's main outcome document — a 42-page "Pact of the Future" — on Sunday morning with a ...

The U.N. General Assembly approved a blueprint Sunday to bring the world’s increasingly divided nations together to tackle 21st-century challenges from climate change and ...

It's not a great moment in world affairs right now. The world is fragmented. Conflicts and crises are raging. It's against ...

Amnesty says that the pager explosions which happened in Lebanon last weeek were indiscriminate and violated international ...

Amnesty International said the 'already dire' humanitarian situation at Syria's Rukban camp has 'deteriorated sharply in ...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued the challenge a year ago after sounding a global alarm about the survival of ...