Bertha Zúñiga is no stranger to threats. She remembers the day years ago when she and her colleagues were chased by machete-wielding attackers in western Honduras.

The United States has suspended some funding for its flagship AIDS relief program, according to international organizations and members of Congress who warn the cuts are already hurting patients and ...

Protesters blocked the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv this morning as part of a nationwide day of action. Israel has also been condemned after an attack on a Gaza hospital killed 20 people, including five ...

An international team of scientists spent three months at sea drilling into a huge, mysterious reservoir of freshwater under the salty ocean. They hope it could help tackle an increasingly severe ...

Israeli tanks were stationed on the edge of Gaza City on Wednesday ahead of a planned ground operation into the enclave’s ...

Almost two decades after Peru’s Machu Picchu was voted one of the New 7 Wonders of the World, the project that organized the vote warns that the Inca site is at risk of losing its “credibility” as one ...

Senior Col. (ret) Zhou Bo, a senior fellow at Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy in Beijing ...

DescriptionThe quest for Palestinian independence is set to get a major boost as several diplomatic heavyweights are expected ...

Even the most celebrated voices can fall silent. For the acclaimed author of “Purple Hibiscus,” “Americanah” and “Half of a Yellow Sun,” that silence stretched into years – a period marked by ...