The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled in favor of the founder of the site WikiLeaks Julian Assange, having declared his prisoning in the Ecuadorian embassy guarded round the clock by British police illegal. The formal decision on the legality of the WikiLeaks founder’s detention is...

A United Nations panel examining an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will rule on Friday that his three-and-a-half-year stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London amounts to 'unlawful detention', the BBC reported.   He was a political refugee whose rights had been infringed by being...

Even as Syrian rebels pounded by Russian air strikes expressed hope that the failure of Geneva peace talks would encourage their foreign backers to send better weapons, a Syrian army source said the city of Aleppo would soon be encircled by government forces.   There was no point to peace...

A day after the World Health Organization declared an international public health emergency, the first known case of Zika virus transmission in the United States was reported in Texas on Tuesday by local health officials.   Health officials claimed that the virus was transmitted through sex...

As the World Health Organization launched a global response unit against the new medical emergency caused by Zika virus, the WHO warned that the Zika virus linked to a microcephaly outbreak in Latin America could spread to Africa and Asia, with the world's highest birth rates.   An...

The Islamic State is threatening Libya and could seize the nation's oil wealth even as an international coalition is pushing back the radical group militants in their Syrian and Iraqi strongholds, U.S Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday.   The Islamic State is spreading into other...

Primaries for Republican and Democratic parties started in the US state of Iowa on Monday evening. They results designate candidates for the presidential election by each party in each state. Voting takes place in the show-of-hands (open vote of party members) and primary form (by secret ballot on...

Facebook is taking steps to stop private individuals from advertising guns. Individuals would also no longer be allowed to sell and advertise guns on Instagram, the photo-sharing service owned by Facebook.   While the new rules aim to stop all gun trade between individuals on the sites, the...

New born Baby Pablo sent residents celebrating in a small town in northern Italy as it is the first baby in the town since the 1980s.   The new arrival is a "dream come true" for the tiny community, which has seen its population plummet over the past 100 years, said Giacomo Lombardo, the...