Lebanon's parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty, a move that would make it the first country in the…
A Syrian court has sentenced ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia, after convicting him of committing war crimes…
When 37-year-old Maria learned that her 59-year-old father, Yuri, had been killed while fighting in Ukraine, she expected grief. Instead,…
“I am alarmed by the rise in executions and death sentences issued in Iran since March and that capital punishment…
What you need to knowIsraeli hostilities and demolitions continued in southern Lebanon, where at least 4,329 deaths and 12,233 injuries…
Cases caused by the amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, have numbered in the hundreds since 1960 – but it can quickly prove…
The outbreak’s “true scale has not yet been fully established,” said Dr. Anne Ancia, WHO’s representative to the DRC.“We would like to say…
The death toll from a tragic road accident involving a Buddhist pilgrimage in northeastern Thailand has risen to 10 after…
The desperation of patients haunts Gaza's hospitals - their exterior walls eaten away by gunfire and Israeli strikes, the health-care…
Two deadly earthquakes struck Venezuela less than a minute apart on Wednesday, with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, causing at…