A girl who refused to surrender her phone after texting in math class was flipped backward and tossed across the classroom floor by a sheriff's deputy, prompting a federal civil rights probe on Tuesday.
The US embargo on Cuba, which the UN General Assembly formally condemned on Tuesday, is not about international politics for Elizabeth Navarro. It's what keeps her 7-year-old daughter from getting the cancer drug she needs.
Residents in a northwestern Pakistani town that was among the worst-affected by this week's massive earthquake were seeking government help on Wednesday to rebuild their damaged homes, after spending the second straight night with relatives.
Politicians who use derogatory language about refugees and migrants may ultimately be responsible for causing violence, racism and bigotry, UN Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein warned on Tuesday.
President Alassane Ouattara won a blowout poll victory and a second five-year term in a weekend vote intended to draw a line under years of turmoil and a 2011 civil war, the elections commission announced on Wednesday.
Rescuers worked to reach quake-stricken regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday as officials said the combined death toll from the previous day's earthquake rose to 311.
Everyone, including young people, should attach importance and shoulder the duty to implement the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and make the planet become fair, inclusive and sustainable, President Xi Jinping said in a letter congratulating the opening of the Ninth UNESCO Youth Forum in Paris on Monday.
In the photograph that made Kim Phuc a living symbol of the Vietnam War, her burns aren't visible - only her agony as she runs wailing toward the camera.
At least 120,000 people have been displaced in Syria this month because of fighting, according to UN humanitarian officials.
Turkey's state-run news agency said police have detained some 30 people in pre-dawn raids on suspected Islamic State militants, a day after a similar operation left seven militants and two police officers dead.
A 98-year-old man from the Republic of Korea took off his black coat and muffler and gave them to his coughing son from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Monday as they parted - likely never to meet again - after a brief reunion, their first since war tore them apart more than 60 years ago.
Seven suspected Islamic State militants and two Turkish police officers were killed on Monday during a shootout in Diyarbakir, the main city in the Kurdish-majority southeast, security sources said.
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