Brazil’s Movement of the Landless Rural Workers said Waldomiro Costa Pereira, a prominent land rights activist in the state of Pará, was fatally shot by gunmen...
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the U.S.-led international coalition against the Islamic State bombed a school being used as a shelter, killing at...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today it has approved a new drug, Xadago, for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Roughly 50,000 Americans are diagnosed...
Two people, including a police officer, died Wednesday in what London police say they are treating as a “terrorist incident” near the Houses of Parliament. Authorities...
Lawmakers have passed legislation that removes a controversial “gay panic” defense from the criminal code in an Australian state. The code previously enabled the measure to...
Belgian leaders, victims and families of those who died in the March 22 suicide bomb attacks on the Brussels airport and subway marked Wednesday the first...
They are nicknamed “kamikaze” drones. Houthi forces and those aligned with former President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen are using them to target the missile-defense systems...
An earthquake has hit Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, causing some panic among residents, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The United...