TEHRAN, July 10 -At least 232 civilians were killed and 120 women and girls raped in attacks by South Sudan government troops and aligned forces in opposition-held villages, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, July 08 - Unprecedented rains that have killed at least 69 people also stranded 1,850 in the western Japanese city of Kurashiki on Sunday, including about 130 at a hospital, with rescuers using helicopters and boats after rivers surged over their banks.
TEHRAN, July 03 - Philippine police officials said another mayor was shot and killed by an unidentified man in a road attack a day after a city mayor was gunned down in brazen back-to-back killing s that prompted an opposition senator to call the country the "murder capital of Asia."
TEHRAN, July 02 - U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres says he's heard "unimaginable accounts of killing and rape" from Rohingya refugees who have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh in the wake of violence since last August.
TEHRAN, July 02 - Security forces in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua have unlawfully killed at least 95 people in the eight years since 2010, with almost no accountability, rights group Amnesty International said in a report on Monday.
TEHRAN, July 01 - An Afghan official said a suicide bomber has targeted a group of Sikhs and Hindus in the eastern city of Jalalabad, killing at least 12 people.
TEHRAN, June 25 - A Chicago man has been freed after 36 years in prison for the murder of two police officers after a judge ruled police tortured him to get a confession.
TEHRAN, June 22 - Two Iranian Border Police forces were killed and three others were injured by armed assailants at a border post in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
TEHRAN, June 19 - Iran blasted US Department of State's statement about the execution of a man convicted of killing a number of police forces during an unauthorized gathering few months ago, saying the United States is in no place to interfere in the "legal" affairs of independent countries.
TEHRAN, June 18 - A van struck four people at the Netherlands' largest music festival in the early hours of Monday, killing one of them and injuring the others before driving off, police said.
TEHRAN, June 16 - Six Mexican police officers were murdered on Friday in the central state of Puebla which is ravaged by gangs active in drug trafficking, fuel theft and kidnapping, local officials said.
TEHRAN, June 15 - Four people were killed in southern Turkey Thursday in clashes that erupted when a lawmaker from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party was campaigning in a mainly Kurdish town near Syria, 10 days ahead of tightly-contested polls.
TEHRAN, June 04 - Israeli military forces shot and killed a young Palestinian man close to the border fence between the besieged Gaza Strip and the occupied territories.
TEHRAN, May 29 - Fierce storms which swept across northern India have killed at least 47, taking the death toll from freak weather over the past month to several hundred, officials said Tuesday.
TEHRAN, May 27 - Israeli tank shelling killed two members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group and wounded a third in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, medical officials said, after weeks of border protests that have drawn lethal army fire.
TEHRAN, May 17 -Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday called for an "independent investigation" after the death of 60 Palestinians killed by the Israeli army during protests on Monday.
TEHRAN, May 17 - Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gholamali Khoshroo says Israel's Monday massacre of innocent Palestinians is a "day of shame" for the Muslim world.
TEHRAN, May 15 - Israeli live fire that killed dozens and injured hundreds in Gaza on Monday must stop immediately and the international community must bring those responsible to justice, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said via Twitter.