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Save the Children said later Saturday that two of its Myanmar staff had been "caught up" in the incident and were missing.

Nathan Law, a former lawmaker now living in Britain who is wanted by the Hong Kong authorities, called the weekend's vote a "fake election".

The Olympics boycott is part of a complex diplomatic balancing act.

The Taliban demanded that the claims be backed by evidence.

The stance underlined a hardening Western approach to China

The UN says Afghanistan is mired in a humanitarian crisis affecting 18 million people, or half the population.

China flatly denies any abuses in the region, describing detention centers there as work camps intended to boost incomes and deter extremism in a region made restive by central control.

Amazon is digging into allegations made in the lawsuit, the spokeswoman added.

New Zealand Prostitutes Collective Dame Catherine Healy calls the case a milestone as she warned brothel operators to uphold labour rights.

Biden promises to be more measured in tone and knit back tattered alliances on the global stage -- that could carry a sharper geopolitical threat to Beijing.

The Thai government's existing anti-defamation laws have long been criticised for being abused by big players to stifle freedom of expression.

The British born lad was a former A student who is also wanted by Scotland Yard for forged driver's licences he sold to students

Egyptian Parliament seeks to suspend TikTok for promoting nudity and immorality.

A barista wrote "ISIS" on a Muslim girl's beverage order at a Starbucks in Minnesota

Officially, the Chinese government says it is transferring "surplus" Xinjiang labour to other regions in the name of poverty alleviation.

Iranian government forces homosexual people to choose between unwanted gender reassignment surgeries or public execution

Critics said the welcome Trump was giving Kim in Singapore would legitimize one of the world's worst human rights offenders.

Merkel's visit as the head of a delegation of government and business leaders is her first since she formed her new government.

President Rodrigo Duterte came to power in May 2016, riding on the wave of a harsh anti-drug rhetoric.

A visiting Myanmar minister said his country is "ready" to accept the ethnic Rohingya Muslims who had fled Rakhine state.

Philippines president recently stirred up a controversy after asking his troops to shoot female communist rebels in their vaginas.

A senior police chief has warned new law backed by Theresa May is completely unnecessary at this time.

Over 19,000 children are thought to have been recruited, often by force, by armed groups on all sides of South Sudan's brutal civil war.

The Philippines president hits back at the European Union bloc and explains how he does not want to visit Brussels.

Initially, up to 20,000 refugees, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, will receive notices.

Myanmar's state counsellor and the de facto leader was not present in the Yangon house when the attack took place.

State-run news agency responds to State of the Union onslaught on regime with claims of US corruption, racism and divisive policies.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's sexist joke has angered women's rights groups, with some of them saying the remarks are "extremely worrying".

Mao-era detention camps used to re-educate non-ethnic Chinese Uighurs, says Human Rights Watch and Radio Free Asia.

The so-called "widow's camp" at Balukhali Rohingya refugee settlement consists of 50 red tents where no men or boys over the age of 10 years old are allowed.