Puerto Rican adults are much more likely to report poorer health than other groups of Latino individuals, according to a new report released by the Center for Disease Control (CDC).... More

At least eight people have been killed in a drone strike by U.S. forces in Afghanistan’s northern province of Kunduz.... More

Julian Assange, renowned whistleblower and founder of WikiLeaks, has marked four years under arbitrary detention in London at the Ecuadorean embassy... More

The Daesh-held Iraqi city of Fallujah is facing a “humanitarian disaster” as many of its hunger-stricken residents remain trapped with no “safe passage” to make their way out, a prominent NGO warns.... More

China has warned the U.S. against interfering in its internal affairs, following a meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Buddhist spiritual leader Dalai Lama.... More

Tens of thousands of people have staged demonstrations in a number of cities in Germany to express opposition to racism in the country, in the wake of a record influx of refugees from conflict-hit countries into the European state.... More

Israeli forces have violently suppressed a weekly peaceful protest by Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, leaving scores of people injured.... More

Takfiri Boko Haram terrorists have shot and killed at least 18 women when they stormed a funeral in a village in Nigeria’s troubled northeastern state of Adamawa.... More