An activist from the group Chok3 performs with smoke during a protest against the constant discrimination and violence against the gay community in Chechnya and other regions of Russia, outside the Russian embassy in Mexico City
An activist from the group Chok3 performs with smoke during a protest against the constant discrimination and violence against the gay community in Chechnya and other regions of Russia, outside the Russian embassy in Mexico City, Mexico April 20, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso
U.S. says to continue training regional troops against Lord's Resistance Army
The Lord's Resistance Army were notorious for their brutality and for kidnapping children for use as fighters and sex slaves
Rwandan man jailed for life for genocide crimes
In the genocide, an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in just 100 days
Southern Thailand attacks reflect tension over peace talks, conflict monitor says
More than 6,500 people, most of them civilians, have died in separatist violence since 2004
Asylum seekers crossing into Canada increase with warmer weather
Canada is on track to see the highest number of asylum claims in six years
Colombia landslide kills at least 17 as rains lash Andes
Recent heavy rains have endangered residents in dozens of provincial towns
Nigeria's army launches month-long operation to stem deadly ethnic violence
The army will also offer humanitarian aid to the region including medical support
Canada police charge woman for smuggling asylum-seekers from U.S.
The nine people were the first intercepted in connection with alleged human smuggling
Syria evacuations resume, bringing Damascus-area town under state control
Evacuations had been suspended following a weekend bomb attack on a convoy of evacuees which reportedly killed 126 people.
"We want to be happy" - Iraqi violinist plays in Mosul as troops battle IS
"I stopped playing because I was too afraid but Ameen kept going"