Thousands of demonstrators disrupted New York City traffic into early Thursday after a grand jury decided not to bring charges against a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man.
Four women who said they were sexually tortured as political prisoners following Chile's 1973 military coup have filed a complaint they hope will bring to light dictatorship-era rapes that have been buried by fear, shame and silence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in his annual state-of-the-nation address on Thursday defended Russia's aggressive foreign policy, saying the actions are necessary for his country's survival.
Cambodia's National Assembly will soon amend its internal rules to formally recognize a "minority leader", Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday.
Four of the remaining nine USS Arizona survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack are vowing this year's anniversary won't be their last reunion.
Australia's government is taking steps to curb Australian travelers' soaring expectations of what help they can get from their embassies, such as a loan to pay a prostitute in Thailand or assistance to evict a polecat from above a ceiling in the United States.
Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd on Wednesday left Australia on a campaign targeting illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean, having successfully seen off Japanese whalers after a decade of harassment.
Developing nations called on Tuesday for rich countries to do more to lead the fight against climate change.
Indians marked the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy on Wednesday with protests demanding harsher punishments for those responsible and more compensation for the victims of the world's worst industrial disaster.
Thai police on Wednesday said they are hunting one of the kingdom's richest men as part of a sprawling graft probe that has rocked the country's elite.
The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approved an Arab-backed resolution on Tuesday calling on Israel to renounce possession of nuclear weapons and put its nuclear facilities under international oversight.
Fishermen recovered 11 more bodies from the western Bering Sea on Wednesday near where a South Korean fishing ship sank earlier this week.
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