Taliban fighters have summarily killed or forcibly "disappeared" more than 100 former police and intelligence officers since taking power in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch says.
Japan has become the latest country to take strong border measures against the threat of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, banning entry to all foreign visitors.
Dozens of people in a southeastern Brazilian city have been injured when a footpath next to a river collapsed just after Christmas lights were illuminated as the main attraction of a popular holiday season event, officials say.
Human Rights Watch has accused the International Olympic Committee of being complicit in China's rights abuses ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Games after the IOC president's call with Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, who supporters say may be under political duress.
The Taliban have formed a commission to purge "people of bad character" from their ranks to protect Afghanistan's reputation, the group says, in the latest sign it is trying to change from an insurgency into a regular government.
A bus carrying North Macedonians home from a tourist trip to Istanbul has crashed and caught fire in western Bulgaria, killing at least 45 people, including children.
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko says his country does not want confrontation with Poland, but wants the European Union to take in 2,000 migrants stranded at the border, after Warsaw warned tensions over the trapped people could flare up.
Justin Bieber is facing growing calls to cancel a concert in Saudi Arabia next month as the fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi joined a chorus urging him not to perform at the kingdom's Formula One race.
Five police officers have been injured in the Netherlands and at least 28 people detained as violent protests against COVID-19 restrictions continued for a second night.
Kyle Rittenhouse has been acquitted of all charges after pleading self-defence in the deadly Kenosha shootings that became a political flashpoint in the US.
A suspected terrorist who blew himself up with a homemade bomb outside a hospital in northern England was a Christian convert who reportedly had an asylum claim rejected in 2014.
European Union foreign ministers are set to adopt a fresh package of sanctions against Belarus after more than a week of escalating tensions over migrants at the group's eastern border.
Migrants stranded inside Belarus have thrown rocks and branches at Polish border guards and used logs to try to break down a razor wire fence in new attempts to force their way into the European Union, authorities in Warsaw say.
A Hong Kong activist dubbed "Captain America 2.0" for wielding the superhero's shield at pro-democracy protests has been jailed for nearly six years under a national security law, after a court ruled he promoted independence from China.
Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has survived an assassination attempt with armed drones that targeted his residence and officials says he was unharmed.
