Social Issues
Zimbabwe Gives Mugabe Power To Appoint Judges
Zimbabwe's parliament on Tuesday passed a bill amending the constitution to give the president sweeping powers to...
Rescuers Find 13 Bodies In Crowded Migrant Dinghy Off Libya
Rescuers coming to the aid of a dinghy packed with migrants off the coast of Libya said Tuesday they had discovered 13...
Crunch Time As US Senate Braces For Health Care Vote
Senate Republicans vote Tuesday on the latest effort to repeal Obamacare, in the face of withering criticism from...
Young Nigerians Push For Removal of Political Age Limits
Hundreds of young Nigerians marched on the country's parliament on Tuesday, calling for lawmakers to remove age...
Trump Plea For Unity On Showdown Healthcare Vote
US President Donald Trump has issued a challenge to Republican senators to rally behind their healthcare bill, on the...
Vietnam Activist Jailed For ‘anti-State’ Charge
A Vietnamese activist was jailed for nine years on Tuesday for "anti-state activity", her lawyer said, the second such...
India Court To Consider Abortion Plea From Young Rape Victim
Doctors on Wednesday will examine a 10-year-old raped by her uncle as India's top court considers whether she should be...
Japan Aims To Reduce Suicides By 30% In 10 Years
Japan aims to cut suicides by 30 percent over 10 years, with the government Tuesday approving a plan which seeks to...
India’s Women Cops Take A Stand
All-female police units are shaking up the male-dominated force in conservative northwest India, hitting the streets to...
Corruption In Africa: A Crime Against Development
Africans have few means to protect themselves against human rights abuses, many of which are perpetrated by their own...
Trump Pressures Republicans To Repeal, Warns ‘Obamacare Is Death’
President Donald Trump strongly warned Republicans on Monday that they must pass health care reform, taking his party...
Fijian Pair Face Trial After Alleged Drunken Sex Assault
Fiji rugby stars Josaia Raisuqe and Vuidravuwalu Waisea are to be tried for a combination of drunken violence and...
UN Sees 70% Shortfall In Aid For South Sudan Refugees
Only 30 percent of $1.4 billion aid needed in 2017 for refugees fleeing the conflict in South Sudan has been raised, a...
Driver Charged As Death Toll Climbs Among Texas Truck Migrants
US authorities on Monday charged the driver of the overheated truck found in Texas packed with migrants with one count...
Libya Rescues 150 Europe-Bound Migrants Off Tripoli
Libya's coastguard rescued at least 150 migrants who were trying to reach Europe on Monday, after their inflatable boat...
Texas Truck Deaths Show Smugglers’ ‘brutality’
The head of US homeland security says the deaths of nine people inside an overheated truck packed with migrants in...
South African Child ‘virtually Cured’ of HIV
A nine-year-old infected with HIV at birth has spent most of their life without needing any treatment, say doctors in...
Four Killed In Northeast Nigeria Suicide Attacks
Four people were killed in suicide bomb attacks at a camp for those displaced by the Boko Haram conflict in northeast...
Swaziland Turns Around World’s Highest HIV Infection Rate
Swaziland, which bears the world's heaviest HIV burden, has halved the rate of new infections in five years by boosting...