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Hindu American Foundation, a US-based Hindu advocacy group, is opposing the California State University's inclusion of caste in their non-discrimination policy, calling the move "arbitrary and unnecessary" The group claims...

20101108 - GENK, BELGIUM : Hans Kluge (Acting Director, Division of Health Systems and Public Health, WHO-Europe) pictured at the Regions for health network conference, on the first of...

People from China's Uighur Muslim ethnic group have protested outside the Turkish Olympic Committee building in Istanbul, calling for a boycott of next month’s Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s treatment of the minority.

Syria's largest dam was supposed to be off-limits during the U.S.-led war against the Islamic State, but nearly five years ago, the Pentagon bombed it anyway, jeopardizing tens of thousands...

A detention centre holding migrants in Yemen's Saada city was bombed by the Saudi-led coalition on Friday, killing at least 70 people, including women and children, according to International...

Julien Théron, Sciences Po Talks between Russia and the west have failed. Moscow has described the situation in Ukraine as “intolerable” and “a matter of life or death”. The US...

Coronavirus infections in Africa have reached 10.4 million while the death toll stands at 235,507, according to the latest update by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Governments around the world on Wednesday joined human rights advocates in condemning Israeli authorities' forced expulsion of a Palestinian family and the demolition of their longtime home in the Sheikh...

Ramzy Baroud Long before intersectionality became a prevailing concept that helped delineate the relationship between various marginalized and oppressed groups, late South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu said it all in a...

even warmest years on record, the UN weather agency said on Wednesday, and was also the seventh consecutive year when the global temperature has been more than 1°C above pre-industrial levels; edging closer to the limit laid out under the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

Israeli forces on Wednesday destroyed the home of a Palestinian family in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem. Salhiya house, home for 18 people in two adjacent houses,...

A London-based law firm filed an application with British police Tuesday seeking the arrest of India’s Army Chief and Home Minister over their alleged roles in war crimes in Kashmir, AP reported.