Afghan activist Mahbouba Saraj ran the last remaining safe house and shelter for abused women in Kabul until it was forced to ...

Extreme heat isn’t just bad for your health; it also has a serious impact on our transit systems. In Europe this summer, train tracks have buckled, roads have cracked and subways have turned into ...

Yuly Paola Ruiz, (left) lost her home in the earthquake that hit Colombia. For the pat four days she’s been sleeping at a sports arena with her 7-year-old daughter, her sister and nephews. Manuel ...

Afghan activist Mahbouba Saraj ran the last remaining safe house and shelter for abused women in Kabul until it was forced to ...

An Afghan activist who ran the last remaining safe house and shelter for abused women in Kabul until it was forced to shutter ...

The Trump administration has stripped Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, from hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries from 13 ...

The US Department of Homeland Security has urged immigrants it doesn’t consider to be here legally to “self-deport” and leave ...

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Israeli settlers have increased their attacks in the occupied West Bank sparking fears of violence spiraling out of control.

In this file photo, then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad addresses reporters at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Dec. 9, 2010. Remy de la Mauviniere/AP/File photo A Syrian court sentenced ousted ...

After decades of refusing to allow a movie version of his most famous novel, the two sons of Gabriel Garcia Marquez ...

France’s first so-called “House of Diversity” has opened in Lyon. It’s a shared residential building for queer people aged 55 and older. The house is there to protect older citizens — and not only ...