Why Ghana has been spared much of the chaos that surrounds it in West Africa?
When the 2012 London Olympics get underway Friday, Voula Papachristou won't be there. The Greek triple jumper's controversial tweet about African immigrants in her country and West Nile Virus led the Hellenic Olympic Committee to expel Papachristou from the games.
Greece has removed triple jumper Voula Papachristou from its Olympic team following posts she made on Twitter mocking African immigrants and expressing support for the fascist Golden Dawn Party.
This time, China's bid is unlikely to be blocked by the government, as its attempted takeover of Unocal was seven years ago
The Syrian government appeared to be reasserting its control over most of Damascus Tuesday after a week of heavy clashes in the capital, even as fighting reached the gates of the ancient quarter of Aleppo in the north, the country's most populous city and one largely free of conflict until recently.
The forgotten country of Tajikistan is actually of pivotal importance, and the rumblings of an increasingly bold crowd of Islamist dissenters there should not be ignored.
As non-Persians, they have long faced discrimination, particularly with respect to employment, housing, and civil rights.
British Members of Parliament have condemned the UK Border Agency for failing to address its growing backlog of immigration cases involving foreign nationals who should have been removed from the country.
The Venezuelan government announced that security forces on Saturday ended a 20-day prison riot during which at least 22 inmates died.
A national election is expected to take place in Zimbabwe next year. Without sanctions to condemn, Mugabe would be hard-pressed to find something else to blame.
Hill, who has an IQ of 70, will be put to death via lethal injection, despite the U.S. Supreme Court's ban on the execution of mentally disabled prisoners.
The Arab League has offered a safe exit for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family if he quickly resigns and leaves the country, in the latest attempt from the international community to end 17 months of bloodshed in Syria.
In the old days of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the party of President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto, a systemic culture of government corruption ensured that the drug cartels would be more or less left alone in exchange for hefty bribes at multiple levels, and as the drugs flowed north into the U.S. there was relatively little violence.
Machine guns rattled overnight in Syria's largest city, Aleppo, 220 miles north of Damascus, which itself is seeing an escalation of fighting.
A senior Iraqi official told the New York Times that all four of the country's crossings into Syria have now been closed, because the rebels have seized the Syrian sides of them.
Communal tensions continued to flare in western Myanmar six weeks into the declaration of a state of emergency in the region, even as targeted attacks and human rights violations by the security forces against the minority community of the Rohingya and other Muslims have increased, said Amnesty International on Friday.
Seventeen months into the Syrian crisis, with numerous worsening instances of blood-chilling violence and massacre, everything still stays the same because the big players are waiting for the right moment to intervene.
YouTube announced the launch of a new face-blurring tool on July 18 that helps in protecting identity of citizens in sensitive reports and helps in addressing human rights issues.
Nass Contracting Co., a wealthy Bahraini construction giant that was recently under fire from human rights groups, announced on Tuesday that it would permit its workers to leave the country and return home.
Today is a turning point in Syria's history,” said the chief of the Syrian National Council, Abdelbasset Seida,
It’s been some five centuries since the fall of the Inca Empire, but the civilization’s most familiar icon, Machu Picchu, is as busy as ever. With over one million tourists visiting Peru each year to explore the miraculous pre-Columbian ruins, activists hope to inspire the crowds to help stop other indigenous tribes in Peru’s “Sacred Valley” from suffering a similar fate.
A Jewish human rights group has provided information to Hungarian authorities about a suspected Nazi war criminal, who is currently being investigated for his role in facilitating the murder of hundreds of interned Jews during the World War II.
