HONG KONG
Wed Jun 17, 2015 1:56am EDT
Hong Kong legislators began a debate on a Beijing-backed electoral reform proposal on Wednesday, as hundreds of people gathered outside government buildings ahead of a contentious vote that is expected by the end of this week.
Politics
16 June 2015 – More than 55,000 refugees have arrived in the Greek islands so far this year, with hundreds arriving every day in inflatable dinghies and wooden boats, putting a “tremendous strain” on the communities that receive them and worsening conditions for the new arrivals, the United Natio
SULTAN KUDARAT, PHILIPPINES
Tue Jun 16, 2015 2:32am EDT
BEIJING
Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:07am EDT
HONG KONG
Tue Jun 16, 2015 5:24am EDT
Hong Kong's leader warned on Tuesday that violence will not be tolerated, a day after authorities arrested 10 people and seized suspected explosives ahead of a crucial vote on a China-backed electoral reform package this week.
LONDON
Tue Jun 16, 2015 4:50am EDT
Michelle Obama kicked off a two-day visit to London on Tuesday with a tour of an inner city school as part of the U.S. First Lady's drive to support education for girls around the world.
15 June 2015 – While 70 years of work by the United Nations has helped build a formidable system of rights protections, the nagging persistence of “everything else” – wars and ongoing deprivation – is deeply worrying, the top UN human rights official declared today, urging renewed action to promo
CARACAS
Sun Jun 14, 2015 3:24pm EDT
A U.S. envoy has met Venezuela's second most powerful official in Haiti in a further sign of rapprochement between the ideological foes, according to Venezuelan state media.
GENEVA
Mon Jun 15, 2015 7:31am EDT
The head of the United Nations opened peace talks on Yemen on Monday with a call for a humanitarian ceasefire, saying the country was on the verge of a collapse that the Middle East could not withstand.