June 13, 2014 -- Updated 1530 GMT (2330HKT) A pro-Russian fighter in Slovyansk, Ukraine, checks a woman's documents as she leaves the city on Thursday, June 12. After the recent election of PresidentPetro Poroshenko, there is still unrest in the eastern part of Ukraine, where a large separatist movement has arisen in the wake of Russia's takeover of Crimea. A pro-Russian fighter stands guard at a checkpoint in Slovyansk on June 12. A girl looks out of a bus window as she leaves Slovyansk on...
KIEV, Ukraine — Senior Ukraine officials said on Thursday that three tanks and other military vehicles had trundled into the restive eastern region of the country from Russia, igniting a firefight between Ukrainian and pro-Kremlin groups. “Today militants on the east of Ukraine for the first time...
- The UN high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, has appointed Sandra Beidas, a high ranking official with the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR), to coordinate investigations into widespread allegations of atrocities and mass killings of civilians in the final...
Hollywood heart-throb Brad Pitt added even more star power as he joined partner Angelina Jolie and "Team Hague" at a global summit to end rape in war zones. Human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin, who has become engaged to Pitt's friend and fellow pin-up George Clooney was also at the event - the third...
Iraqi Kurds seized control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Thursday, while surging Sunni Islamist rebels advanced towards Baghdad, as the central government's army abandoned its posts in a rapid collapse that has lost it control of the north. Peshmerga fighters, the security forces of Iraq's...
ISLAMABAD, June 12 (Xinhua) -- A court in Pakistan on Thursday lifted a government's travel ban on former military President Pervez, however, operation of the order will remain suspended for 15 days if the government files an appeal against the verdict. Legal experts say the order could pave the way...
A 19-year-old woman has been found hanging from a tree in a village in northern India, the third such case in a month in Uttar Pradesh state. The body was found in Thakurdwara, about three hours' drive from Delhi. Her family told police she was raped. A post mortem...
