India will conduct its first official caste census since independence, the government announced on Wednesday, a move likely to have far-reaching consequences for its politics and contentious affirmative action policies...
Harvard University task forces charged with investigating claims of anti-Semitism, and anti-Arab and Muslim hate reported Tuesday that such prejudice had taken root on campus, urging the college to champion the fight against bigotry...
US president Donald Trump has removed Doug Emhoff, husband of his former rival Kamala Harris, from the Holocaust Memorial Council board, drawing an angry reaction...
US forces have struck more than 1,000 targets in Yemen since Washington launched the latest round of its air campaign against the Huthi rebels in mid-March, the Pentagon said on Tuesday...
Around 600 North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia against Ukraine have been killed and thousands more wounded, a Seoul lawmaker said on Wednesday, after Pyongyang officially confirmed deploying troops to aid Moscow...
Ukraine expects to sign a much-anticipated minerals deal with the United States in a day, the country鈥檚 prime minister Denys Shmygal said Wednesday, as both sides finalised details.
A fierce fire ripped through a hotel in the Indian city of Kolkata killing at least 15 people, police said on Wednesday, with some clambering out of windows and onto the rooftop to escape...
Pakistan鈥檚 military shot down an Indian drone along the de facto Kashmir border, state radio in Islamabad reported on Tuesday, a week after the deadliest attack on civilians in the contested region in years.
The global system of law and human rights is under threat from a 鈥榤ultiplicity of assaults鈥� which have accelerated since US president Donald Trump鈥檚 return to power, Amnesty International said on Tuesday in its annual report...
Republican lawmakers are seeking to give president Donald Trump broad powers to charge onerous fees to migrants seeking asylum in the United States 鈥� suggesting a minimum cost of $1,000 per application.
Amnesty International on Tuesday accused Israel of committing a 鈥榣ive-streamed genocide鈥� by forcibly displacing most Gazans and deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe 鈥� allegations Israel dismissed as 鈥榖latant lies鈥�.
