Suspected political assassinations in South Africa have claimed at least 43 lives this year to September, with local government elections still one month away, a report said Friday ...

Haiti's gang violence crisis has left at least 5,700 people dead or wounded this year while more than 1,000 women and girls have been raped, UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Friday ...

Yemen's Houthis and Saudi-backed forces fought over an area located not far from a waterway that is crucial to global energy ...

Nearly 20,000 newborns are affected every year with the inherited blood disorder which causes severe pain in patients.

The United Nations is issuing an urgent call to action on the world’s dryland forests - areas that sustain the food security and cultural identity of more than two billion people.

Since 15 May, at least 2,071 children aged under 18 have contracted Ebola, with 961 of these children dying from the disease, ...

Leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and right-wing Senator Flávio Bolsonaro are frontrunners in Sunday's race. Both ...

The Union of Arab Football Associations says it’s backing embattled FIFA head Gianni Infantino in his bid for reelection next year.

Deaf and hearing impaired people in Burkina Faso are using a special technique to dance. The Vibra-Signe technique helps them ...

Portugal fans are in mourning as Cristiano Ronaldo is seemingly living his last moments with the national team. The star ...

The tit for tat move on Thursday came after Addis Ababa expelled an Egyptian official, further straining relations between ...

The lab has been operating for two weeks, a welcome relief to staff at the nearby Ebola treatment center who said that ...