A Pakistani police official says the death toll from a massive bombing that tore through a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of ...

Hong Kong ex-media tycoon Jimmy Lai is near to his sentence, which is set for Monday, February 9, 2026.Lai was also found ...

Officials say a suicide bomber blew himself up at the gates of a Shiite mosque in Islamabad, killing dozens of people during ...

In cash-strapped Pakistan, the punishment for the theft of a manhole cover could be 10 years in prison and a fine of up to 50 ...

United Nations human rights experts have sounded the alarm over what they describe as a deeply troubling assault on the rule ...

The Punjab government’s move also highlights a grim reality. Instead of fixing the economic conditions that push people into ...

With jarring regularity, the gates of an Indian high-security prison swing open for a prominent guru jailed for life for murder, freeing him to preach virtue to the millions of followers he holds in ...

The rights activist Narges Mohammadi is protesting her continued detention, her family said. She was arrested again in ...

Some 60,000 evacuees have been left in limbo by confusion and political disputes as Pakistan battles insurgents on its border ...

UN experts condemned on Wednesday the conviction of the lawyers and human rights defenders, Imaan Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha, by the District and Sessions Court in Islamabad, Pakistan.

State prisons in the United States became more violent and nearly 50% deadlier over the past five years as authorities struggled to keep enough guards on the job, according to a government-funded ...

Previous arrangements between the Syrian government and the SDF largely centered on temporary ceasefires, the management of contact lines, or narrowly defined security coordination. None evolved into ...