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

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

Humans and monkeys once peacefully coexisted in Lopburi, a mid-sized city in Thailand, but no more. Its downtown is overrun ...

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.

National Book Award Winner Ha Jin published a new coming of age novel set against the backdrop of the Tiananmen Square ...

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 ...

At least 68 Palestinians and 13 Israelis have been killed in the West Bank this year. And there is a real fear that violence could spiral further out of control. Stephanie Fried reports from the ...

Last year, an independent book shop just outside the Danish capital, Copenhagen, received five big boxes of books. There was just one problem: The books were supposed to head to Nairobi, Kenya.