Native Americans, ranchers and farmers launched a blockade of a highway in North Dakota to bar crews from reaching the construction site of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
As doctors in beseiged Aleppo issue a desperate plea for a no-fly zone to protect civilians in the city, the "anti-war" (sic) left in the US mobilizes to defeat the proposal.
US special operations troops are for the first time directly supporting local forces battling ISIS in their key Libyan stronghold of Sirte, the Washington Post reports.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein expressed concern over Bulgaria's criminalization of migrants both leaving and entering the country.
The National Assembly of Pakistan approved the Electronic Crimes Bill that international human rights organizations say will hinder citizens' free speech and privacy.
A Justice Department report finds the Baltimore Police Department has engaged in tactics that violate the First and Fourth Amendments and anti-discrimination laws.
The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh sentenced a former member of parliament to death for crimes committed during the 1971 war for independence.
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a lower court ruling that barred Ecuadoran plaintiffs from collecting a $8.646 billion judgment against Chevron Corp.
Lawyers went on strike and journalists staged demonstrations after scores were slain in a Taliban terror attack on a hospital in Quetta, capital of restive Balochistan province.
Large numbers of Russian tanks are massing in Crimea along the border with government-controlled Ukraine, in the aftermath of a bomb blast that killed a separatist leader.
An alliance of rebel militias announced that their fighters have broken the devastating months-long siege of Aleppo by the Bashar Assad regime and allied forces.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein criticized Iran for the mass execution of 20 people this week, calling the action "deplorable."
