Middle East
WHO declares polio global health emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday declared the international spread of wild polio virus in 2014 a public health crisis and ...Brazil gay rights advocates call for ban on discrimination in large annual parade
Hundreds of thousands of gay rights supporters - many wearing elaborate colorful costumes - marched through the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo ...Rebel infighting reportedly kills at least 62 in eastern Syria
Heavy fighting between rival Islamic rebel groups in eastern Syria killed 62 fighters and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes, ...Army kills 37 Qaeda suspects in south Yemen
Yemen said 37 al Qaeda militants were killed in the southern province of Shabwa on Sunday as the army intensified an offensive ...World marks Press Freedom Day
Saturday is World Press Freedom Day, an annual observance established by the United Nations in 1993 to support freedom of expression.Cease-fire reached in Syrian city of Homs
A ceasefire agreement has been reached in the central Syrian city of Homs, according to local activists and a Lebanese TV channel ...Ukraine reinstates military conscription
The interim Ukrainian president reinstated military conscription Thursday in the face of an increasingly empowered pro-Russian separatist insurgency in the country\'s eastern ...At least 33 killed in Aleppo airstrikes, Syrian opposition group says
At least 33 civilians have been killed and scores of others have been injured in a government airstrike on a market in ...Protesters mark May Day across the globe
Labor and trade unions across much of the world organize demonstrations to mark International Workers\' Day on May 1.Airstrike on Syrian school kills 18, say activists
An air raid on a rebel-held neighbourhood of Syria\'s main northern city Aleppo hit a school, killing at least 18 people, 10 ...