More than 12 million children in the Middle East are not being educated despite efforts to expand schooling, the UN children's agency UNICEF said on Wednesday.
European Union governments and institutions must adopt robust rules for powerful lobbies seeking to shape laws and policy or face the risk of corruption, anti-graft watchdog Transparency International warned on Wednesday.
US President Barack Obama's move on Tuesday to drop Cuba from a list of state sponsors of terrorism was "fair", the Foreign Ministry in Havana said.
South Korean lawmakers passed a resolution on Tuesday to denounce Japan's approval of school textbooks that distorted history and laid territorial claims to the Dokdo islets, called Takeshima in Japan.
When a cybersecurity breach hits the news, those involved often have incentive to play up the sophistication of the attack.
A jihadist fighter slits a man's throat. Another brandishes a severed head, spiked on his rifle, as more militants dump bodies into a trench overflowing with corpses.
Climate change is predicted to intrude into almost every area of life - from where we live, to what we eat and with whom we war.
On the anniversary of the kidnapping by Islamic extremists of hundreds of girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, President-elect Muhammadu Buhari said on Tuesday that he cannot promise to find the 219 who are still missing.
Iran's foreign minister laid out a four-point Yemen peace plan on Tuesday that included dialogue and humanitarian aid, and renewed his call for an end to Saudi-led airstrikes against the Houthi rebel force.
US Senator Marco Rubio launched his presidential campaign on Monday at a rally in Miami, calling for a new era of American leadership that is not "stuck in the 20th century".
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