Race Relations / Ethnic Issues

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights experts urged UNESCO on Friday not to grant World Heritage Site...

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Bosnia's outgoing international peace overseer decreed amendments to its criminal code on Friday to allow jail terms...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Iranians protesting over water shortages in the southwest...

DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Tajikistan is preparing to take in up to 100,000 refugees from neighbouring Afghanistan where fighting has escalated...

By Doyinsola Oladipo (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved a plan on Thursday to allow an extra 8,000...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece was searching for migrants who went missing after their sailing boat sank off the island of...

By Nora Buli and Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) -Church bells rang out across Norway on Thursday to mark 10 years...

By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Russia and China failed on Thursday in a bid to get the U.N....

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow complained that Ukraine was blocking water supplies to Russian-annexed Crimea in a lawsuit at Europe's top...

MADRID (Reuters) - More than 200 migrants crossed into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla early on Thursday, climbing the...

DUBAI (Reuters) -Protesters angry about water shortages took to the streets of southwest Iran for a sixth night in a...

By Marine Strauss BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Hundreds of undocumented immigrants, on hunger strike in Brussels for the last two months...

PARIS (Reuters) - France and the United Kingdom have agreed to deploy more police and invest in detection technology on...

ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian activist accused by the authorities of plotting a violent insurrection has been detained in neighbouring...

By Andrius Sytas and Janis Laizans DRUSKININKAI, Lithuania (Reuters) -European Union border agency Frontex will deploy 60 border guards with...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish security forces have detained nearly 1,500 irregular migrants in the last week, most of them Afghans,...

(Corrects grammar in headline) PARIS (Reuters) -French president Emmanuel Macron on Monday awarded U.S. civil rights leader Reverend Jesse Jackson...

By Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Ethiopia has completed filling the reservoir of its huge dam on the Blue Nile...

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Years before becoming president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel pushed for greater public access to the internet...

By Cassandra Garrison and Nelson Renteria CHALCHUAPA, El Salvador (Reuters) - Neighbors knew something was wrong in that squat green...