
HUMAN RIGHTS
Jeb Bush refuses to rule out torture
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush says the use of torture is acceptable under some circumstances in the US.

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush says the use of torture is acceptable under some circumstances in the US.

The American broadcast network NBC has announced Donald Trump will no longer host the competition series Celebrity Apprentice.

More than 50,000 Britons sign a petition calling for the Israeli prime minister's arrest on his upcoming visit to London.

St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger on Thursday extended the state of emergency in Ferguson for another day.

Saudi Arabia continues bombing areas across Yemen as the United Nations calls for the cessation of conflict in the Arab country.

At least six people, including a journalist, are killed in an attack in Mexico.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry criticizes US President Barack Obama over his remarks on Iran’s policy change towards Washington and Tel Aviv.

Pakistan is to execute seven militants over the school massacre in the northwestern city of Peshawar in December 2014.

The US sentenced an Albanian national to 16 years in jail for attempting to join terrorist groups.

Greeks hold anti-austerity protest as lawmakers discuss the country's agreement on a third bailout deal with international creditors.

A senior figure from the PKK militant group says his group will neither disarm nor leave Turkey.

Mauritania doubles jail time for slavery calling it a crime against humanity.

At least 25 people are killed after Daesh militants shell a hospital in the central Iraqi city of Fallujah.

Moniz told Jewish groups on Thursday that the nuclear deal with Iran will benefit the US, Israel and Washington's Arab allies.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi strongly condemns remarks by a top US military commander on the possibility of partitioning Iraq.

American contractors working on the US-funded power plant in Afghanistan are abusing the Afghan government, says an analyst.

Saudi Arabia is burning through its foreign reserves at an alarming pace in the wake of the oil price slump and a sharp rise in military spending.

The Iran nuclear agreement is the biggest defeat that the Israel lobby in the United States has really ever had, according to an American journalist in Atlanta, Georgia.