Home Office statistics revealed Tuesday that hate crimes in England and Wales have risen by 18 percent over the last year. Police recorded 52,528 hate crimes between 2014 and 2015, which were motivated by factors...

US-backed Kurdish forces and other militant groups have been committing war crimes in northern Syria in an effort to quash any sympathy or support for the Islamic State (IS) , Amnesty International (AI) reported...

Iran's Parliament on Tuesday voted 161-59, with 13 abstentions, to accept the nuclear agreement that was introduced and agreed upon by world powers over the summer. Under the terms of the deal, Iran agrees to remove...

Mexico's attorney general on Sunday released a 54,000-page file detailing the Mexican government's investigation into last year's disappearance of 43 students. Attorney General Arely Gomez Gonzalez provided the partially-redacted document through Twitter ...

A South African deputy minister said Sunday that the nation will leave the International Criminal Court (ICC) , opining that the court has "lost its direction." Following criticism for ignoring an ICC directive to arrest the...

Chinese state media on Monday reported that the former head of the country's biggest oil firm was sentenced to 16 years in prison for corruption. The former chairman of China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) , Jiang Jiemin, was...

California Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday signed into law a ban on the use of "Redskins" as a team name, nickname or mascot, making California the first state to do so. The ban, called the...

An Egyptian court on Monday ordered the release of former president Hosni Mubarak's sons, Gamal and Alaa Mubarak, after holding that they had completed their three-year prison sentences on embezzlement.The Cairo criminal court sentenced Hosni...

An Iranian Revolutionary Court on Monday convicted Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian , approximately two months after the end of his trial. Rezaian was accused of espionage for allegedly collecting confidential information,...

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Thursday filed an eminent domain action against the small coastal city of Margate, New Jersey. The residents of Margate have stalled attempts by Christie to construct protective sand dunes...